WOMAN'S WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 281, 18 November 1918, Page 6

WOMAN'S WORK.

Mrs C. W. McCulloch, legal adviser ot the National W.C.T.U., is the first \orr.tn in the I S.A. to be appointed a Mas.er in Chancery. She was also the first woman Justice of the Peace in any State east of the Mississippi. Japan requires a very high property qualification for suffrage in national elections, but the women who come up lo it vote on the same 1:1ms as the men. There are three women iu Tokio who have voted for years. The Wesleyan College, Georgia, ISA., lias < onferred the degree of 1.L.1). on Mrs Mary Harris Armor. She lias the distinction of being the unl> person, male or female, upon whom this conservative faculty of trustees have ever bestowed an honorary degree. At the same time, her youngest daughter, Miss Mattie Harris Armor, received her A.B. Degree, and graduated in ,>ainting. Ihe General Assembly of the Vic torian Presbyterian C hurch has decreed that women shall have the church franchise, right of cle< tion to church bodies, and association with church sessions, for c consultative pur,»>oscs only. .Miss Sessions has been chosvti as < it > Counc illor for Gloucester, the first woman to take a scat in the Guildhall She is a member of ‘he B.W.T.A. President Wilson has appointed Miss Katherine Sailer* .«s Judge of the Juvenile Court of the District of Colorado. At the Dutch Parliamentary elections there were 22 women candidates, representing 9 different parties. Mrs J. W. Gale, Calgary, is the first woman Alderman of any city in Canada. WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT. We are pleased to note that the British House of Commons has followed up the granting of the* Franchise to women by its logical issu*\ and by a large majority has affirmed that women are eligib!) for election as members of the House. Hurry up. New Zealand! or you will fail to get a place in this race, and will be ticketed as an “Also ran.”