WOMAN'S WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 260, 19 February 1917, Page 8

WOMAN'S WORK.

Durham University has admitted a woman as Fellow, in the person of Miss ridith Killip, M.A. Miss Lane-Claypon, M.D., D.Sc., has been appointed Dean to the Household and Soc ial Sc ience Department of King’s College for Women (University of London). Bournemouth Town Council now employs women gardeners in the parks and pleasure gardens; and the London County Council has proposed the employment of women park-keepers in London. One hundred women have started work as dockers at Newport. The first woman band sawyer has been introduced into the chair and furniture industry of Wycombe. The Birmingham Hebrew Congregation has elected a woman as “marriage secretary.’ ’ A woman wearing a barrister’s wig and gown has been refused admittance to the Law Courts in the King’s Bench Division. NUMBER OF POLICE WOMEN IN U.S.A. Chicago, 21 ; Baltimore, 5; Pittsburgh, 4; San Francisco, 4; Seattle, 4 ; Los Angelos, 5; Portland, Ore , 3; St. Paul, 3; Minneapolis, 2; Dayton, 2; Topeka, 2. The following cities each has one policewoman : —Denver, Rochester, Syracuse, Omaha, San Antonio, Tacoma, Youngstown, South Bend, Wichita, San Diego, Racine, Jamestown, Aurora, Evanston, Colorado, Springs, and Bellingham, Wash. Salaries, from poo to 1850 dollars.

Reports from Topeka, Kan., say that of 255 women candidates for State and county offices, 151 were elected on November 7. Fifty-eight women were elected county superintendents of instruction, 46 registers of deeds, 25 clerks of district courts, 15 county treasurers, 5 county clerks, and 2 probate judges. Classified as to parties, there were 02 Republican women elected, and 5Q Democrats. Only 17 Kansas counties will not have women county officeholders, according to the reports.

Miss Georgina Sweet has been appointed Professor of Biology in Melbourne L’niversitv. She is the first woman professor to be appointed in Australia. By special authority of the Czar, 47 “first” women have been graduated from the technical schools of Russia as engineers. Miss Larsen has just been made a Doctor of Theology in Denmark. Three Californian women will be among the thirteen representatives from that State to sit in the Electoral College. Mr Ohmer, President of Recording and Computing Machine Company, of Dayton, O. : “W'c put our best expert mechanics on a certain machine, and the best they could get out of it was 300 per day. Then we put our trained women on them, and, to our surprise, they were able to turn out as high as 1300 a day. It is a significant fact that the women had three weeks to learn what skilled workmen had required three or five years to learn.”

Utah has just elected its first nonMormon Governor. Three women have been elected to the Utah Legislature. Mrs Wallis Williams, who was nominated recently by the Republicans for the Legislature in Washington, took first prize at the State Fair on September iq for corn bread and baking powder biscuit, and second prize for soda biscuit. The women of Yucatan have been granted the ballot. They will be the first Spanish-speaking women in the world to exercise this privilege.