Show I The Heroic Pioneer Woman Womax I j. j By Dy OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON An Oklahoma oil all man was willing to spend for a monument to the woman who helped t to win the west Twelve sculptors Interpreted the pioneer women in twelve bronze models Popular vote gave the palm to Bryant Baker No doubt the colossal figure which will eventually stand on a knoll somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where on the western plains will be patterned after the popular model o of Mr Baker Bakers Baker's Pioneer Woman Woman Is very young Beside her and a little behind walks valls a 1 little boy whose hand she Is Is' holding Under her arm she carries a a. Bible Hook Hooked d over over the same arm Is a a. bundle of clothes She is very beautiful her beautiful her head is up and she looks fearlessly ahead Her stride is long and firm nL The whole attitude of ot the figure spells ideal deal dealand and future Ma l MacNeil's Neils Neil's Pioneer Plon er Woman depicts rugged strength She c carries a a. baby on one arm and an ax in the oth other r. r She is s b barefoot She too walks with fearless fearless' stride and and steady gaze ahead In her hem there is perhaps more strength but less Ideal These were the women who braved torture and annihilation by the Indians cruel hardships of ot endless endless endless end end- less journeys starvation cold and the bitter work of f bringing up a a. family without the commonest necessities necessities of at life lIe Have women deteriorated Emphatically no Dont Don't point to beauty parlors and bridge tables and say There Thero she Is now Woman Yoman is Js a victim of civilization civilization tion that has put rents up so high she dare dame not have havea a family A A. h house s even is out of at the question most o t tot of ot the time in the city Cooped up in a 3 lic steam heated td flat rIat with life Ufo handed to her on a dumbwaiter what is is' she going to do with her time She cant can't sit and ando go crazy So she does one of two things She goes to movies and pla plays rs bridge or else elso sho she goes out and works In either case she's condemned as be being being belag be- be ing lag selfish Given Ghen a home homo and a chance few women actually f fall ll down on the job They are good pl pioneers yet |