Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1918 — OF INTEREST TO WOMEN [ARTICLE]

OF INTEREST TO WOMEN

Woman machinists are working at the General Electric company plant in Philadelphia. A food research laboratory has been founded in New York city by Mrs. Oliver Harriman. ' The wife of the Cuban president, Mme. Menocal, is head of the Red Cross organization in the little republic. A woman from Alaska, Mrs. Ida Sprague Lilly, who has lived alone on a deserted island for six weeks, considers New York city the lonesomest place she ever encountered. . At the end of the recent canning season, the women operating the Newark canning plant divided the jars of fruit and vegetables on a basis of hours of toll. The new hostess house of the Y. W. C. A. at Camp Dlx, one of the most pretentious of these buildings, is. the gift of Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia.