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Show Capable Woo em ; Jottings About the Doings of the Fair Sex j . . Former Emore Eugenie recently ccie-h ccie-h brated hep ninety-third birthday, jj Miss Pauline Goldmark. of the Bailroad dminisrtration, guards the interests of til women In the railroad employ Miss Morion Moses I? director of publicity pub-licity for the Council of National Defence in Philadelphia. since the signing of the armistice England Eng-land has released from service only I nurses, owing; to the shortage of members ?f this profession. The United States Congress has received from Governor General Harrison, of the Philippine Islands, a recommendation that H the women of the Islands be given the fi-anchise. Mitt Bet tie FMn r; eoman, female, re- cently Inherited ovr ( .. , .jrvmmat $2,000,000 from a dis- jSHHK in Washington. iiBE'B Ten new police- HKvttttaijijS appointed In New MtaJfcttflr York, making a tou! nHHL special duty amonp .JflfilHI young people ai -JHRjI' dances. and jBBBffBnB other public places. I ! 1 Was Lizzl? Woos-MIM RETT FlSHFR- ter, State Superin- retri-W lendent of Instruction in Kansas, is going to revoke the certificate of men teachers who use tobacco and also the certificates of women who arc addicted to the use of loo much cosmetics Miss Tessle O'Nell. as clerk of the United States Army Transport Service in Hobo-ken, Hobo-ken, N. J., has known the secret sailing date of every troopship. Mrs. Margaret Neale. as head of the women's division of the employment service, ser-vice, Department of Uabor. was intrusted with the task of bringing women into Industry In-dustry in the numbers required by the war's needs. Only experienced auto drivers are desired de-sired as motor chauffeurs by the Women's Lesion in Great Britain. Women clerks who have proved their efficiency in the Philadelphia division offices of-fices of the Pennsylvania Railroad will for the most part be retained in their positions. po-sitions. Mrs. E. E Harmon hus acquired the honor of being the first woman to visit New York from Washington in an airplane. air-plane. She is the wife of Lieutenant Harmon, Har-mon, who acted a pilot on the trip. Mrs. Reginald De Koven, wife of the great composer, thinks that the way to fight Bolshevism is to begin with the chil-I chil-I dren. By 33ft votes to the French Chamber of Deputies has decided to discuss the provisions pro-visions of a bill giving women the right to vote at elections of t tie municipal, general and district council? The Women's International Congress nt Zurich has decided to invite the various national sections of the international Women's League to organise meeting? of protest against some of the terms of the peace treaty. Over fifty per cent of the workers in the Philadelphia candy factories are women. Only one woman in every four in the candy trade in Philadelphia receives as much as $H per week for her labor. A bill introduced In the British Parliament Parlia-ment allows tv omen to become Justices of the peace and enjoy nil the privileges accorded ac-corded one In that office Miss May Kltson. an eighteen-year-old ESrdenhelm, Pa., gjlrl, desirer. to accompan) the first fiver who attempts to cross the Atlantic Ocean without a stop. Miss Helen Lasanltch. daughter of the former Serbian Minister to London and Paris, has returned to her native country ' to found a home for war orphans In Bel- grade, which will be financed In the t nl-ted nl-ted States Amrnir her baggage was un I American portable house j Motor women of the Charles City flown) western Railroad car line varied only I fifteen minutes from their regular time j schedule for the entire day in the fiercest bllxaard of the winter which swept that j city during March At the signing of the armistice nine- ! tenths of the total shell output of Greal Britain was the work of women, the ma- ! Jority of whom before the rar never sin the inside of a machine shop Mrs. Theodore W Pi hards Is the new i head of the Atlantic Division of the Tunlnr j Red Cross, who will direct w York's ! school children in a campaign to supply j furniture and clothing to Frem h refugees The coming of peace will shortly reunite I Lieutenant Commander William C. Dron- j berger. United States navy, and his bride. a Chinese girl. She came to America In 190i. studied four years in a girl-' finishing I school, and later met Dronherger in Shanghai when he was with the Asiatic j squadron 1 Miss Lucy Minnegerode. or a. historic j Virginia family, has been appointed pu- , perlntcndent of the new United State- I Public Health Nurse Corps a position ? which makes her "little mother" to some re.OW hospital patients a jear. Farmers in Staf- fordsshlre, England, " as the ahii i' j JHRi women as farm Jt$jfBxSL laborers rfplierl in WjkWi. . . .-.idereil women bet- 6C W milking; thirty pr;- 1 ferred women for Jn rearing stock, and k-'- flfe. nine for poultry MfiS keeping. JKL The only P.nt I h-LJm" - , born woman who fAM kVTHvXtN toRJE evrr became an American colonel Is Kathleen Burke, honorary hon-orary colonel of the 138th Artillery Regl ment. She was the first woman to enter Verdun during the' sleo and she is be- 1 lleved to be the only woman who was I e r-r in the British front line while in ac-I ac-I tion. Four women occupy responsible positions posi-tions in the Working Conditions Servl. e which is dealing w ith problems that vlta'.-ly vlta'.-ly affect the health and welfare of both men and women in this country . Mrs. Ernest R. Blcknell, of Washington, Washing-ton, D G has been pfcorated by the Queen of Belgium for distinguished ser-Ivlcc ser-Ivlcc rendered In Belgium. At present she lis the head of the Red Cross Bureau In Paris. |