WOMEN IN VARIED ROLES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 169, 28 April 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

WOMEN IN VARIED ROLES.

iliss Alice Sherwin Coleman makes 160,000 worth of artificial (1 e» a year, savs t!ii' Xew York' "Sim" in an .-.'■-

tide entitled "Varied Activities tf Women." She has heeti in husine-s as a professional fly maker for more than ten years. When she hejiau site knew next to nothing ahout the work, and. there heins; nohodv to teach her, .•he had to ham from experience. Mrs. Ajincvi 1,. Ridcll. . of Denver. Colorado, is the champion oriian ser of farmeis. Indeed, she was to'd when elected State secretary of the fanners (j range of Colorado a few years ago that fanners were the one class ,•■!

workers who could not he organised. At that tiiiif tlio irr-.-muo in Colorado had •">!)() members and fourteen nr.nan'sations. At tin- end of twi years there were .">()!)!) menders of the Slate and ninety-two organisation':.

Tlmtmli Mrs. K'ddlo now own-, and rmtnaejo, a lar.:e farm -ho hoean her working life as a trained nurse. Tlieii she niai'i'ii'd an invalid fanner, and witlrn the next U-w year, they adopted >ix children. When the farmers ,;i her section doeidi d that they wanted a representative in lh' State ture, tliev picked Mr.. Riddl ■ for ilie l>!aco. I'pward of .",11.1)01) niell voted for her. Th.' -Maii'vin;; Maoist I ate" ol .Menroe, Wisconsin, recently decided that all ejirls wishing to inarrv should he ah'e to hake bread. " In the future I intend to pet that (,uc-tioa ia every fill who comes to me to he married," announced the magistrate. "If slip says no, she will have to e.e| someone eUe to perforin the cerenionv.''

According to the <■< n-us. Pi nn.-viva nhl laM year had 7000 woman farm or-, the majority of whom o\\ no 1 tin I,Old thev worked.

In Ceoruia during i!i o past thin vears tlie number of woman farme:ha- mm.' than doubled The majority of the women en in lor raisiim ho--, ealtle. .and foodstuff-, leavine col ion planting to the men.

The women of Des Momeo-, few a, ere credited v-'th 1, ii'e_ r nMnnsible lor tin' establishment ol' a municipal court in their city. A maiorit vof the male voters want aeainst it. hut the num-h-r of the women voters was -o heavy that thev won thee day.