Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1917 — ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN [ARTICLE]

ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN

Probably 50,000 women In the United are now making surgical dressing for the (tilled armies. Including cable and postal censors, there are now over 75,000 women employed in the British war office. - Mrs. Wellington Koo, wife of the Chinese minister to the United States, was educated at Barnard college. The Mohammedan law gives woman a better status than she has in any country except the United States. Queen Elizabeth of Belgium recently made an airplane trip over a section of Belgian territory under German control. - Mme. Soller is the leader of the Male Symphony band in New York city and has 50 skilled male musicians under her. Today there are more than 6,000 female cooks and waiters in the 200 or more army caffips located in various parts of England. Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of Food Dictator Hoover, is a real partner of her husband, whom she assists in all of his undertakings. Dr. Idii M. Ogilvie, professor of geography at Columbia university, Is dean of the new woman’s agricultural camp near Mount Kisco, N. Y. - •• To receive a bachelor’s degree and a lawyer’s degree In three years, to be mistress of French and Spanish and all points of corporation law and to make it a rule to sleep only four hours out of 24, Is a record held by Miss Helen D. Falkner of Cleveland, O. In Korea women occupy a place In society which has no parallel elsewhere In the Orient. They are both better and worse off than in China or India or Japan—better off because there are more fields open to them, worse because they are overworked, often illtreated and until recently were actually enslaved.