Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1913 — FAMOUS AMERICAN SONS BIRD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FAMOUS AMERICAN SONS BIRD.

Madame Emma Eames Is now In Europe and wiil not sing In this country this year. French Women Busy Workers. «There are 7,000,000 women in France who earn their own living. In Paris women now work as cutters of precious stones, and they have proved io skillful that they may win supremacy from Amsterdam as the centre of the stone-cutting industry. The women cutters receive 91.80 a day, against the 60 cents paid the Paris seamstress. Women are found in almost every line of work in France. For. example, a woman is in charge of the railroad station in Froissey, a Paris suburb, while her husband works under her as a porter. The only barber shop in Froissy is run by 'Mile. Jeanne." who works only on Tuesdays and Fridays. Mate. Lesobre holds the joint position of telegraph messenger and postman. Sbe averages twenty miles a day. seven days a week, and has not missed a day in fifteen years, A woman pounds the big drum In the Froissy brass band, ind a woman holds the street cleaning contract

EMMA EAMES.