Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — Activities of Women. [ARTICLE]

Activities of Women.

There Is one wage-earning woman to three wage-earning men In New York state. When a woman loses her husband by death in Korea she Is forbidden from marrying again. Mrs. Estelle L. Lindsay is running for the legislature in California on the Socialist ticket. In British Columbia women teachers only are take the household economics lectures. The British Red Cross society has over 55,000 nurses enrolled, of which over two-thirds are women. Canadian husbands desiring to go to war must first get the wife’s consent before being enlisted. The dowager empress of Russia has given a complete field ambulance unit for the French troops. The women of Nagasaki, Japan, work side by side with the men coaling steamers that come into that port Women aTe being put to work in collieries In Germany, assuring that country plenty of coaL The women of Servla as well as those of Montenegro bear arms the same as men during the time of war.