Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1913 — WOMAN IN THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

WOMAN IN THE WORLD

L Women In Japan work as coal pa—srs on the steamships. Catherine Kline has announced her candidacy for mayor In Cleveland, O, Over 3,000,000 women are employed in other than household occupations. In Elmira, N. Y., women taxpayers attend* the meetings of the common council. The pellagra disease in the south Is to be investigated by Dr. Elizabeth Muncey of the Carnegie institution. Mrs. Nanette Melville of Baltimore has been appointed as special policewoman to preserve the morals of the board walk at Newport, R. L Mary E. Miller, a twelve-year-old girl, recently swam across the Hudson riv4s, a distance of one and one-half miles, in 49 minutes. / Over 6,000,000 women’s hats and bonnets were imported from the British isles during the first six months of this year. Mrs. Joseph Wood, wife of a prominent lawyer in Mount Vernon, N. Y., has been appointed to the Westchester county police force. For the first time in the history of Georgia, a woman, Mrs. Alice D! Swanson, has been appointed a deputy collector and inspector of a port. _ • Cincinnati housemaids have organized a maids’ union and declare they will refuse to handle articles made or delivered by nonunion men. * r —; Doctors in Paris have begun a crusade against women’s veils, which they declare are perilous to health and mere receptacles to microbes. Dr. Beatrice M. Victory of Philadelphia is the first woman to win the degree of doctor of philosophy in Ger- V manic at the University of Pennsylvania. Dowager Queen Alexandra of England discards two pairs of gloves daily during the year. She spends $30,000 a year in Paris for dresses and Jewels.