WOMAN'S WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 280, 18 October 1918, Page 8

WOMAN'S WORK.

Miss A lire Klein has been appointed assistant chemist in the Stale laboratory of hygiene at New Hampshire. This lad> is a graduate of Sommomons College, has specialised in pub In health chemistry, and her endorsemenis tor the position are ot an exceptional!) high order. “The time is ripe ;j extend the suffrage to women, .ino 1 hope the present Legislature raa; grant it.” — Premier Orlando, of ltil>. hour local street cars are run with women as conductors at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. 1 or the first time in the world's history Jewish women are to be allowed to vote foi nominees for the Congress to be held in Washington. Merlin has elc< l* d women as Magistrates. A Russian girl took a doctor’s degree at Zurich in 18G7. In the early seventies the admission of women to medical courses became a settled practice in Russia. In 1876 women surgeons in numbers distinguished themselves at the Front in the Servianl urkish war, also in the Russo-Japan-e e war, and in the present conflict. To day women physicians are as prominent as men, and in seme citn s there are more female than male dentists. More than G2O of the tea< hers in Zemstov schools are women, and the census of 1897 showed that there were four women to every five men in the State and Public Service. The women railway workers have demanded an extra war bonus, so they get equal pay with the male workers. , Danish women cast their first ballots in a recent election. The result was to keep in i>ower the Ministry which has kept Denmark out of war for the pas four years. WOMEN’S VOTE IN US A PROTECTS THE HOME. Out of eleven full suffrag-e States of the Union, 72.7 per cent, have good child labour laws, and 100 per cent, have compulsory education laws. qo.q per cent, of the Suffrage States have mothers’ |*nsion laws. In qo.o ]>er cent, mothers have equal rights with fathers over their own children.