Show Batting for fog Winchell II Editor note Dote Commander Walter II Is L on OD a tour lour of ot duty U. U S. S Ills JUs meet columnist today Is Benay Vent Venuta stage t e and radio tar atar tarSo tarSo So Its It's a Mans Man's War Is la It 1 Listen mister in order to feel my role of the Amazon Queen in By Jupiter I delved into the stories of nations at war and found page after page chronicling the heroic exploits of the distaff side of the war machine The most famous women warriors warriors warriors war war- were the Amazons They lived only for war and refused to fight In the same battalions with men Of the children born to the Amazons there were still men in the neighboring provinces provinces es es boy babies were killed immediately im tm- mediately and the girls were reared for war The word Amazon means and according to Greek mythology mythol mythol- ogy the Amazons had their right breasts burned off the better to manage the stout bow Maid of Orleans Perhaps the most famous of the courageous women of the world was the little peasant girl who led the French battalions to victory at Orleans in 1429 Among the 12 charges brought against Joan of Arc when she was tried for being a sorceress were that of cutting her hair and wearing male attire Passing the Bucket Molly Hays a courageous peasant girl followed her husband John to the fighting lines in the War for Independence At the battle of Monmouth 1 she lugged water back and forth to the soldiers Here comes Molly with the pitcher they would cry And Molly hurry with that pitcher pitch pitch- er It was shortened to Molly pitcher and the name stuck When John Hays fell Molly took up his position at the gun After victory Washington elevated her herto herto herto to the rank of sergeant Today Molly 1 Hays is still remembered in this ditty sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle Molly Pitcher she stood by her herAnd hern gun n And rammed the charges home sir And thus on Monmouth's bloody field A sergeant did become sir Kitchen Strategist During the Civil war President Lincoln received and studied a series of letters written by a lady named Emma Ella EIla Carroll These letters letters letters let let- contained complete outlines of tricky maneuvers to be used by the Northern armies in the war between the states The successful campaign of Tennessee Tennes Tennes- I see was fought according to thee thet strategy laid out by this one- one woman Intelligence department The entire Northern command reluctantly recognized Miss or Mrs Carroll as a military genius Joan of Arc Harriet after making her own escape from slavery led more than men women and children children children chil chil- dren out of bondage single- single handed through her own undetected undetected undetected un un- un- un detected underground She was known to the slaves aves of the south as the Moses of her race and the chant Let My Pe People G Go followed her wherever she went John Brown the abolitionist I sent her again and again into slave territory to bring more members of her race into the prom promised sed land During the Civil war she was official scout and spy for the Union armies in inthe inthe inthe the south Liberty Equality Fraternity Theroigne de on October October October Octo Octo- ber 6 1789 l led d a battalion of women to Versa Versailles lles to lay their protests and grievances before Marie Antoinette It was to this small army of valiant women that the queen uttered the most famous off brush-off in history Let them eat cake Theroigne was later apprehended a and n d placed on trial on a a. up trumped-up charge of pf attempted assassination assassination assassination tion of the queen Although two would have got you five that she would be beheaded the rebel leader was acquitted and set free 1917 M Maria a. a ria who has been canea called the greatest Russian heroine of World War I 1 enlisted in the army in 1915 and later formed the Women's Battalion of De Death th of which she was commander She distinguished herself again and again in rescuing the wounded under fire She went over the top In eight big battles and 10 counterattacks They Died with Their Bonnets p On Mrs Harley sister of Lord French was killed by a shell in Monastir while helping in tle 3 evacuation of Serbian refugees Mrs Thekla Brown attached to a French ambulance unit died while transporting the injured in injured injured in- in When the Germans invaded a small village in f France announcing that French soldiers were hidden in that town Madame Marie Masson stepped forward and said There 0 are no French soldiers here But Germans must kill so here take me and do your worst They stood her up against a walland wall walland walland and shot her dead Belgian Madame the last of a group of captives to be shot down by invading Germans re received received re- re the hail of bullets and I with her last breath cried out t Vive la Ia Belgique Vive la laFrance laFrance 4 France Copyright 1942 Daily Mirror i |