Show t r- Mans Man's Land Landi I ti i ACKWARD fellows who can cant can't I re reconcile o eile themselves them them- l selves to the new political order of equal J 1 suffrage may find some consolation in the tt i j t tf thought t that America is the only continent not j named after a woman J. J Until the discovery of f continental rby Am Americus ri us Ve Vespucius all the honors in iii the ther 11 fd r christening of continents had g gone gUnc ne to woman dV 1 Wherefore it o occurred curr d to to a sixteenth six- six te nth century ry geographer to demand deman that mere merc rr c man be given givel a a. a ashow show in the thc naming of the v ne new new- JG cS con continent r 7 He was was was' not mouthed mealy-mouthed in in expressing him him- lf on the subject In his Ins book Cosmographic printed in 1507 he wrote thus I l n not t see sec why any one should hould rightly object q q it Amerigo ig or Am America rica i. i c e. and lof iJ ne icus after its discoverer a man ilan of saga saga- j s since Europe I Asia and nd Africa are e f ame after women II I ld f suggestion va was a accepted by g geographers r and arid so the land laud that Columbus l Ir i discovered was was' named after another because r td his lis dying g day C Columbus lumbus hims himself lf lid did ji n not it know f lad f found nd a n new nw w land but thought thought-he he had I t merely blazed bled a new trail to the East Indies i t t |