WOMAN'S WORK.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 266, 18 August 1917, Page 4

WOMAN'S WORK.

In Sweden a Hill lias passed both Houses enabl.ng women to be appointed as Reetors of County Council Training Colleges for women teacher*. Mis* Galindo has recently been elected a member of -he Mexican Congress. She is the first woman to hold such a position. She is a brilliant speaker, and edits and publishes the “Modern Woman*’ in Mexico city. In Seattle lately, in a case where a photographer was c harged w.th displaying indecent pictures in his show window, the Deputy Prosecutor insisted that half the jury should be women. On London street cars and omnibuses are now employed JSOO women as conductors. Five States in America have eleven women in their State Legislatures. Washington has one, Montana two, Arizona three, Ctah has four, and Oregon one. Professor Josiah Morse, of the University of South Carolina, is teaching suffrage history in an effort to develop workers and speakers for an organisation campaign in the State. Plymouth, California, has the only woman coroner in the* world, Mrs I). A. Potter, who was chosen to succeed her husband in the office. Miss Georgina Sweet has been appointed Professor of Biology in Melbourne University. She is the first woman professor to be appointed in Australia. In India, women have held a meeting to protest against indentured labour, and have* organised a deputation to the Viceroy. This is Indian women’s first interference in politics, and they were drivert to this action to protect the humblest of their sisters, the women who emigrate to colonies under the system of indentured labour, and are there* exposed to conditions fatal to their honour. The Viceroy warmly welcomed the deputation, and said: “I am unfeignedly pleased to receive you here this afternoon, and for two sjx*( i.d reasons; One, that to-

day is the first time in the history of British rule in India that women have approached the Viceroy. There arc many matters in which the Government of India would be greatly helped if they could get the advice and help of women. 1 need only mention the subject of women’s education. I have viewed with apprehension the growing inequality between men and women arising out of difference of education. It cannot be good for a countr\ that its women should lag behind men in the matter of education.

In France, M. elemental, Minister of Commerce, has decided that women shall be admitted to the F.cole Centrale (for engineering) on the same terms as men. This decision has been taken at the request of the Council of the School.

Mrs Nettie Emmerson, of San Francisco, is one of the* highest salaried women on the Pacific Coast. She is the manager of seven buildings, with a total of 730 rooms. Two of these buildings arc* large down-tow n ottn r structures, and two more are apartment houses. She has several nun dred tenants, more than 100 physicians and dentists in a s.nglc* building.

One of the three Commissioners appointed by President \\ ilson to administer the Federal Employees’ Compensation Law is a woman, Mrs Axtell. This lady was a member of the Washington State Commission, and -he hel|x*d to fix the minimum wage lor women and apprentices. Her home town >ent her to the* State Legislature for the uji3 session, where she made a brilliant record for obtaining laws that benefited the people rather than the special interests to which she is an uncompromising foe. She is a brilliant, forceful speaker, and she was known home as the* busiest woman in the State. The “Oregon Sunday Journal,” in announcing her appointment, declared that such recognition of a woman never before was given in this country.

Miss Helen Lillis has been elected President of the First National Bank of Oroville, to fill the vacancy caused by her father’s death. She was thoroughly trained by her father in the science of banking.

'Vl.ss Jeanette* Bates is Assistant Attorney-General of Illinois, and Miss R. Mozzor is Assistant AttorneyGeneral of Colorado.

SCOTTISH WOMEN’S HOSPITALS. In the early days of the war a hospital unit was organised by some >ulfragists in Eng and and sent to France to do service with the French Army. During the* agonising days of the retreat, this little hospital, manned by women, did wondeiful work. Th.s was the beginning of the present five complete hospitals which go under the title of the 1 “Scottish Women’s Hospitals.” The first unit has become a base hospital; another has been established in France; one in Koumania, which made the retreat with the Roumanian Army; and two in the Balkans. Of the Balkan hospitals, one is a base hospital in Salonika, containing 350 beds, and the other is a mobile unit of 17c beds, and has an advanced station, where the) receive im n direct from the trenches. The entire staff in both places, surgeons, doctors, nurses, cooks, and orderlies, is composed of women. They wc re both sited and laid out b\ women ; even the drainage trenches were dug by feminine hands. At the field unit all the ambulances arc* driven by w ,,n '<ci; who are often under fire. 'lhe fii’e little woman who 111ns the X ravs department was before the war a professor in a Glasgow University. Soldiers are loath to leave these hospitals for the ordinary military hospitals, and every one bears testimony to the noble, unselfish work of thes • women, some of th» in only girls in years, who lived quiet shielded lives before the v\ar, but who have risen with magnificent courage to the occasion.

I hr King personally decorated Lady Dorothie Feilding with the military medal for bravery and devotion. Five nurses were awarded the medal. Four of them were wounded, but still on duty. This is the first a mounceinrnt of the award of the Military Medal to women.

The biggest factory in France which supplies an article most necessary to our armies is under the sole charge of a woman under thirty, who was formerly a suffrage organiser.