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Show jlest of Cults 4 Is Heroine Worship 3 c and Monuments Being Erected and Pic-ff Pic-ff 0f Great Women Hung All About "J Club Rooms; "Acropolis to Womanhood" Woman-hood" Is Planned rillOLTX V.'CI i SSV Doc. 9 -Heroine i l6I:l,T ' in4 spreading eult 1 FJn of achievement than i r"n"n t).- votaries an n r:ntiv "iv p,ck,n h r r t women-a dozen !l WL are erecting statue Sj itcb. th r t ,,omon. and 3 jpES f pturM 01 fcmln";t 1 M",bSr'aIde.i Ht of the 13 3 11 irn soon Is to be I J kX? ihe Joint congressional uj i.h Mrs Carrie Chapman 1 PrWTh ' women's Unlvcr-y Unlvcr-y Km lust purchased a mil- tttr in Washington, upon IroP - to -r.-. an -ue- t5ff t ' dead of the femi-brtbe femi-brtbe erf;"nt,ri ,-. d ration of Pml 'nsa,,d !n Rrtbclr now Headquarters in Imu Sard Howe The f cf J Grille club of Frank-klscn. Frank-klscn. for Mrs. felt Blair'a picture to hang ' 7 'Us- These are the thsUiat indicate a growing LjrES THROWN OUT. EX County club flatlj re-Kr re-Kr g tertata pictorial re-Rf re-Rf mere males on tho walls mfSJZ Th' f'1 rubbishy Erf? of day that is past will-K will-K confront and affront the te'duh women With calm fete rehire the 'lad) with a ffth " ub brushed them like K the walls. She writes CftnUr Newell Blair at (he na-, rnSo-'raiic headquarters: En removed all pictur. pi Sun who decorate our sval a. LVinlocs that the pictur. o SLwatatJve national and w 11 K,3tIJ bo hung in those spai i a Lb to ask you to si nd four Kftt w may clalm 'ou amongj wworcen" j BUy from I woman a bu-Ltaibodi-i "i ' la' tful hyme CtU, ladies even though firmi (TtP too bard on the poorj na." Fieture of Mrs. Carrie Chap-Mtcccupi-:-- a bll "i wall space plinth that of Abraham Lin-i Lin-i the Cleveland, Ohio head-El head-El of tho Lea?:u of Women Ini Miss Belle Shcrwln or Eg,' Lucr-tla Mott and Susan, (icjy have spaces also BORING MERE BE U I "S ftt't think that women will Sr in their heroine worship us By the women ! the hour' their shoulders as men do Jlitt!." suid Miss S'lo rwin. r "t too much sense for that, nut very loyal to proved lead- ership. Tho woman who would be a leader anions women must not be roo theatrical or dramatic She bas to show ability in the truest sense befotj women are willing to put her on h pedest:il " Thore was o time when even women admired beauty in others of their sex above toll other qualities said Miss sherwin. "Mrs Stephen . Douglas was one or those supremely beautiful women in the days before the Civil w.ir. the doors of Perry's, tho principal dry Roods store of tho capital, would be I (Closed in order to keep crowds from following her about while she did her .".hcpplng "Women do not worship mere beau-J2Lin beau-J2Lin tlJHt wajr nov ' ": e continued. l hoy demand the same qualities in women that men demand of other men But of coursn. beauty still plays n part as wa:; witnessed by the reeeption Lady Astor received on her I recent visit to this country. Ameri- ; can women simply went rrazv over her, because she possessed both charm and 1th ins." FEW STATUES OF WOMI . Somo women have received little recognition for th.:lr achievements by nelng limned In everlasting marble The statues that have been erectfd fo women in this country could probably prob-ably be counted on the fingers of one ! hand. I ut m Gales-burg. Ill Mother Mary Bickerdike, the Civil war nurse, has a memorial to her memory. Th" Ijstatue of Hannah Dustln "stands somewhere in New EnglnncI " Phe was the pioneer woman, the heroine of a story as thrilling as thai of any modern hero The Indians killed her 'baby and captured her and another woman, carrying them off to their eamn In the dead of night she killed 12 of them, scalped theni. escaped and received a bounty for the scalps in Boston There is only one woman in th hnll of fame in the capitnl, Frances Wil-lard. Wil-lard. Tlie statues of the three suffrage suf-frage pioneers thai the National Wr-mnn's Wr-mnn's party presented to the capita: were relegated to the basemenl in nn ignomioous dark corner MEN N ENEMY SIDE. The city of Washington i cluttered v.im siKiues ereccoo to tno norinca-i tion of the jnale sex with practlcall) no honor fi women. The Women's! Universal alliance promises to remedy this unfair condition Th y are plan-! nlns a great "acropolis to woman-' kind" to be financed by the men. The-site The-site upon which the planned building build-ing and monuments are to be er ected : Is reputed to be worth a million dol- lars. "We will honor the great women of the past ' said Mrs. Clarence Crlt-benden Crlt-benden (.'alhoun. president of the Wo-, man Universal alliance, "by inscribing inscrib-ing their names in marble in these memorials. I don't thim women could ever agree upon the greatest among Ins women, but women have never! obtained their fair share of honor: and glory In the jiast." |