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Show THE ".FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN. This interesting question, though hardly new, has come to us: What one living American woman would you place at the head of all American women as representative of a career of actiH signal achievement? achieve-ment? Then what five other women, by the same measurement, would you name next, making a round half-dozen of the living American women who have done most for womankind?. t'Lists df this sort arc invariably' un- H satisfactory. Still it is always attrac- fl tivc to compile one. Bearing well H in mind, therefore, the basis on which H wc . arc 'asked to make a- selection. H namely, "a career of actual signal achievement." we should unhesitat- H ingly select, for the one living Amcri- can woman, apart from all others, H Miss Janc.Addams as the foremost H living woman in America today H known to us as having accomplished fl most for womankind, and, for that H matter, for humankind. .fl ft. H v H m Six Splendid Women.-; 1 M m H pAsto the other .five women wc arc fl asked to select, there will be, of nc- fl ccssity, a wider difference of opinion. It is significant, however, when one H .tries to compile such a list as this H ujgn,th broad basis of.actual achieve- H ment, that the choice Ibccomcs nar M roy;cd to a very few, and that wc H must, .include, even .in a list of six. M onj. woman of foreign birthv'Irs. H Booth. But her work has bcn so M splendidly and exclusively American M that wc choose, for the momcnT, to M forget the accident of' her birth: M 1. Jane Addams for practical tc fl form. fl 2. Helen Keller as an example of M overcoming almost insurmountable M obstacles. M Helen Miller Gould, for.philSn- H . 7 Litem thropy. ' - " ,ls M 4. Maud Ballington Booth for up- M lifting the fallen. t ' v ' i . Q 5. Julia Ward Howe for jthc&fos- M tcring of patriotism. H 6. Frances Folsom Cleveland .for H the embodiment of American wife- H hood and motherhood. C. t Hv H Others there arc, worthy women H with "careers of actual signal achieve,- H ment." But six wc arc asked :fo,r, H and six it isl 1 "V' jH Ladies' Home Journal, H |