Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1918 — OF INTEREST TO WOMEN [ARTICLE]

OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

Women have taken the places of all men letter carriers in Paris. Women are working in Section gangs on the Pittsburgh division of the Pennsylvania railroad. The French “garcon” of the boulevard cases of Paris has disappeared and his place is taken by a girl. Three hospitals have been established in England for war victims by the Russian Grand Duchess Georgievna. Practically all the work in some departments of Belgian munition factories is done by girls. Hundreds of Russian girls, emulating their sisters of the Battalion of Death, have joined their country’s navy. It is estimated that at least 20,000 nurses will be needed for service in hospitals at home and abroad during the next year, according to the report of Surgeon General William O. Gorgas, United States An urgent appeal comes from Major Murphy, head of the American Red Cross in France, to the women of this country for more surgical dressings and* bandages. The Canadian government Is contemplating increase of the allowance of wives of soldiers from S2O to $25 a month. Records show that the demand for fur coats atfd sets by women of England and France has Increased enormously since the beginning of the war. Practical and attractive peasant costumes have been*made in America for the women In ruined districts of northern France. The first American woman to qualify as a sharpshooter, Mrs. Jackson Morris, Is instructiiig soldiers at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., In the best methods of shooting. .