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I 4 in Congress re and find Even n the theL L tl L e N what way will the American IN woman Toman of 1917 surpass the achievements of those who came before What new work ork what lines of or endeavor what fields of conquest hitherto unexplored by br the feminine mind will furnish the outlet for the brilliant initiative the the enterprise and the restless energy of the American woman who enters the now new year buo buoyantly autly hopeful and Lind with a supreme su su- supreme preme confidence whose whoso cause and justification can be he found in tho achievements of tl the e year jear ear just ended Will VIll womans woman's mind turn tum to mechanics mechanics me me- Will Vill she contribute the great chemical discoveries of ot the tho 3 year will ear will America produce a Mme limo Curie With the great world war raging on and on on will some American Amen Ameri can woman suggest the means menns ultimately ultimately ulti ulti- matel to be bo adopted in ending history's history's history's his his- torys tory's greatest horror and will the tho world diplomatists and strategists be forced to acknowledge that her insight in sight was keener l and her ber vision vison broader than theirs Who Vho reviewing the American womans woman's achievements durIn during just one jear is 1916 1916 is bold enough to prophecy what the new year will bring forth lorin In all nIl the finer arts she has kept step with man She has shown her aptitude for politics and won her herway herway herway way Into the halls of or Congress Her Triumphs in Sport In swimming she has bas during durinS' the year fear forced recognition from the athletic ath letic union The marvelous golfing of or a lIUe litle strip of a girl Miss Alexa Stirling earned the unstinted praise of every expert who saw her win the w womans woman's championship In th the air the female of the species J has t-io t a r irti proven otar even mare mr r rt I 11 a Th T-IM T rr t e 8 an anthe the male Possibly someone will venture venturo that the the American woman will show In 1917 her value as a soldier soldier soldier-as as a patriot fighting for her country That however she has already done Molly Pitcher we had and without doubt many man other Molly Pitchers would be beI I ready adr If the call came and the need arose Every slate state could furnish Its Pauline Revere Possibly It will be bea beh a h matter of or only a short time before America will produce a Jeanne Pauline Jones Why shouldn't the American woman woman woman wom wom- an 1 prove piove rove a great sea captain For one thing a woman will show in In 1917 what she can do in the w way y of handling a n major league baseball club Mrs Helene Robison Britton owner of the controlling interest Inthe Inthe in inthe the St St. Louis National League Base- Base L JI L J 1 1 I It t M r Management J of ofa a Ball Team y 7 f What is Le Left rt t tr A r L t to Conquer Y Ir v vL L rF r- r y F S Y r r ball Club has announced her Intention 1 tion ilea of looking actively I after alter the affairs af at- fairs of the famous Cardinals this a approaching approaching ap ap- p season Hitherto she ahe has Y tat taken cen a great deal eal of interest in the club but now that she has haS' sued her husband f for or divorce e. e he having been 1 the e president of the club she will bo the directing S genius emus of the team She Sho will wilI of cour course c have havo a m manager of or f fir her own appointment on the field It is an old story that story that of the experience experIence ex ex- of or Mrs l Britton f Britton-f ing follo following the death of her uncle who had left s her a baseball club the story stor of how she first regarded rAs 1 h h the tho white ele- ele 1 ant nov hour she any familiarized herself with the slang of the diamond how i she studied the game and t th tho ho players play- play ers era fired and hired managers In 1917 the sporting fraternity i is y s looking Ing for 1 Mrs Ins Britton to cash in inon inon inon i on the experience she has so pluckily j gained With rUh the supervision and di dl of the club entirely In her i own n hands and on her own r a a c the a progress of the St St. Louis Lout Nationals will b be e watched with more e than ordinary Interest h by Y those who are asking themselves What next will the American woman be able to do better th than an the theNo men No Threat to Womanliness ne ts Mrs 1 Britton by Uy tine the way wa- does not consi consider er that she Is losing any of her womanliness manliness by hy taking an active Interest in In- terest in baseball She thinks all women should be interested in th the e national game no not t only as a 1 pleasure leasure but as a duty to the home Her argument is i that the home in many cases would be made much happier if It the wife were able to discuss discuss dis dia- cuss cusa with her husband and her boys Miss Jeannette Rankin Whose Election to Congress Has Proved One of the Most Startling ing of Womans Woman's fr Feats for An A r 1916 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I l 4 t e r k r WA 1 1 f M I H l 1 1 i n v 5 far a A 1 p J ij g gi I Miss Ruth Law v Who Broke the American Record for Long- Long Distance Surpassing Surpassing- All Men Competitors the progress of the tho pennant race and the fine points of or the game Why she asks should the worn en forever talk about fashions which men do not nn understand while men talk about sports with which the women are not noi familiar Wouldn't t home life lire be more attractive If tr they could all talk tal baseball She thinks It would broaden women worn wom en to sit among the crowds of red red- blooded hum human m beings who root for r the homo home t team gam and she knows they thoy would be he healthier as the result ofa ofa of ofa a few tew hours spent out in the open air The achievement of or Miss hiss Jeannette Rankin in the political arena is one of the outstanding events in the 1916 catalogue of womans woman's achievements It is fa not that she was nominated for Congress or that she was waB elected as the first congresswoman but but the strongest tribute to her effectiveness as a campaigner and to her strength as a candidate Is found In the figures The Democratic candidate for 1 President received votes in Montana against votes for tor tho the Republican nominee Despite this fact Miss Rankin was elected elected and and she r ran n on the Republican ticket el A Splendid Cook Miss Rankin Is Js not the thc kind o of ot t suffragist the cartoonist delights to depict She Is 15 womanly through and through She Sho dances well she Fhe is her own milliner aho shu cau can sew and i she can cook cook in in fact It is said that her wonderful lemon Jemon merIngue pro plo has a fame all it its own Miss Rankin has announced she will fight for mothers' mothers pensions universal universal uni uni- versal compulsory education and th tho e u extension or of the child labor Jabor laws The year 1917 will record the success orthe orthe or the failure of the first American woman woman woman wom wom- an to hold a place in the greatest representative body of the greatest country in the world Determined eloquent ma magnetic Miss Jeannette Rankin will b be e the most picturesque person poison in Washington Washing Washing- ton and she he is going to be the central figure in a new volume of womans woman's history which will begin with the year ear 1917 Aviation and ond the Girl When Victor Carlstrom on Nov 2 2 19 1916 6 established the new American nonstop stop aviation flight record miles he miles he hailed g was as a hero The newspapers throughout the country J p eagerly sought Bought his photograph Such t I 11 distinguished figures as Maj Gen Gen 1 Leonard Wood welcomed him when a ahe I he lie arrived in Now Ken York T Miss Hiss Ru Ruth h Law t a little slip of or a agin J h gin didn't wait the month out before she be be announced her intention of ex ev Ii li ceiling the feat teat of or Carlstrom Be Be- Dec Beci c ci cause serious attention would not bo be 0 o given her hOl attempt she was una unable le to a s 7 r f fE E V VI I Ar I I I II i r 1 obtain a machine that would compare with that us used d by uy Carlstrom Undaunted Undaunted Un Un- daunted she finally managed to ac ac- quire the use 01 of a dinky airplane and ana started out from Chicago on her flight She not only broke the American Y record just established a few weeks before by bj Carlstrom but she did It so fiO decisively that no question re re- remained remained remained as to who was the most wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- flier tUel in America today She traveled from Chicago to Hornell a distance of miles without a n stop exceeding the previous stop non-stop record by miles and she did it in iii ina ina a machine that compares to Carlstrom Carlstrom's CarlStrom's Carl Carl- Stroms Strom's as a bicycle compares to a n limousine This Is not tine the only contribution f n L r n d 4 n Ui ss aw u ma lU lUI a to LV catalogue ue of or the American womans woman's achieve achieve- ments On May Mar 22 2 at the tile Sheepshead y i X x i i t tt 1 LW f v Mrs Helene f j Robison Britten Who Announced Her Intention of Personally Personally- Directing the Affairs of the St. St Louis Baseball Team Speedway she climbed more than two wo miles ml into the tho clouds In her ter airplane air air- plane establishing a new worlds world's ecord for women flyers Her tier mark 1500 feet was almost twice as high highs as s any woman had ever er flown before The be previous worlds world's record it is interesting in in- to note was also held byer by her er It w was as feet feel Miss l Laws Law's flight Hight when the alIe established shed the altitude record was declared de de- lared to be one of the most marvelous marvel marvel- ous us aeronautical exhibitions of or pure kill skill nn and dare deviltry ever recorded So here in Miss Ruth La Law America Ameri Amen ca has a R little woman who holds the worlds world's s record for altitude for tor women women women wom wom- en an and the American stop non record for both men and women Who Vho can say what the American woman oman will accomplish In the tho conquest conquest conquest con con- quest of the air in m the year jear 1917 It did not take Miss 1 Law a a. great while after establishing her stop non record to demonstrate that she too is a womanly woman Offers galore came c-ame to her from Crom firms which wished to commercialize her name name and and they were all promptly and vigorously vigorous turned down She was offered 35 for a ten weeks' weeks tour in ill vaude- vaude Mlle and ancI she laughed it to scorn I HI will n accept Celt nc no employment ment she declared that will not give me the opportunity to 10 pi promote interest In in aviation in this country My Iy lifo will willbe he be devoted to the cause canse of or aviation and ond no money consideration will h. h Y t tt 1 r t la y kt M w w y a r J p k sj r 1 I t w Y S fb R r ii 1 y l j JY Q V c tf m 1 E J 1 j. j 1 0 f 1 ft t St Y 1 m M i i f. f r J. J h t jr j t cJ d 4 N A i if f ii f I JI r Y lt Y ii-Y f jr l r A r W r t Uv I n fJ A H f f V t tt t i i y t. t Yr J. J it- it a I ft r r t r y 1 1 r tr k swerve e me from that fixed determination nation America having lavIng no war in 1916 the I American woman has hns not had the opportunity mily to display her courage 1 1 on the battlefield and there thero has hns been no oll l Molly Pitcher Mexico however j I boasts of Marie 1 Terrazas one of or tho I j best sharpshooters In tho the famous i 11 Hit J II I J III II 1 t It N. N t B H r r s' s cZ r L 2 k K r 1 I r v x i t b t Pi it t tI L o. I J t 1 t rJ rr lF f b. b ir Y t J t. t i 1 v s ti tie 1 j t l L 0 f i I t i ir r r 1 14 e Y fJ i p 1 1 tI j ij 1 1 t ft i f A f. f 1 t 1 i t rt f t r t. t t f II J t o W r I t r v t t r i t i I tf 1 tJ 1 l 1 lt 1 NJ f f. f ty i iI I Vf 11 to v t 1 t f i N j J J. J t 4 I i i j i L' L 4 j f Jt ij ii l V Y Mrs J J. Hun Hunger ford Millbank Founder of the International Order of Military Women 10 1 Petticoat i in Villas vinas army and France Fiance boasts of or Emmeline Moreau Moreau Mor- Mor eau her modern Joan of Arc The year 1916 did produce the first public drill of or the new now American League for Self Defence under the command of Gen Mrs Irs J Hungerford Millbank 1 founder of the International International Order of Military l Women and it showed two hundred d of ot the tho fairest women womer in Washington clothed in 1 khaki and ond conducting their own preparedness preparedness pre pre- camp J To Illustrate the rem remarkable progress progress ress of woman In ht business the recent recent recent re re- cent announcement that Miss Miss- Grace Jones a a. a pretty young oung woman of ot Mississippi Mis- Mis was slated for tor tile the the presidency presidency dency of the Gulf and Ship Island Railway was taken talen as a matter of ot course and created har hardly ly a ripple of Comment She managed the railroad railroad rail rail- road during tho illness of her father who died in earl early December The rhe American womans woman's achieve achieve- 3 menu ments in the tIle high higher r arts her apt aptitude aptitude 1 tude for such sports as tennis and and j golf solf her superiority in all lines o 0 of domesticity have been een demonstrate demonstrated throughout the years ear J After reviewing a few tew of or h achievements in 1916 who wi prophecy what the i American woma wom will do o with 1917 |