The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-02
LOST THROUGH WOMEN.
History Records Many Disasters Du
to the Fair Sex.

History Records Many Disasters Due
TO the Fair Sex.
Many as the cases are of battles won
! through the agency of women of the type
| of Boadicea and Joan of Arc. there can be
| no denying the fact that equally numer-
| Gus. If not more SO, are those of victory
! spoiled by the fair sex and of battles lost
| owing to feminine Vaccinations. Perhaps
some instances in point may be of general
interest says Tit Bits"
There are many who say that the fail
| ure of the Jameson raid at the outset was
| brought about by women. President Kru-
| ger was in the habit of employing count
| less detectives. both male and female in
| the Transvaal, as well as abroad. The
barmaids of Johannesburg, for example,
| are said to have been in the pay of Dom
Paul. These ladies' by means of their
pTopensi,ies for extracting confidence are
alleged 10 have wrung from some Of the
raiders, long before the raid itself was
entered upon, the fact that it was forth
coming. The consequence was that whel
1t came about Cronje was fully prepared
France can point to a number of cases
in which victories connected with the Re-
public have been spoiled by women, and
the whole course of events changed in
consequence. For example the fall CT
General Boulanger was brought about by
q member of the fair sex. But for the
Viscountess de Bonnemann there is the
chance that he might have become he
ruler of France. The lady induced him
to pay her visit on the night of his
election as member of the Chamber OF
Deputies. when. had he refrained from
SO doing. and instead marched upon the
Elysee as his partisans begged him to do,
! the history of the Republic might have
been entirely altered.
Somewhat similar is the Old World case
OF Hannibal. whose wife was the unin-
territorial cause of his fall and the failure
| of his once successful armies. The great
| general was SO foolish to marry at
| time when he should have been devoting
| all his time to the conduct of military af-
| fairs His troops became utterly demon
allied during the period of his honey
| moon" with the result that they were
| rendered quite unfit for arduous service
and never gained their former standard
of discipline.
Again IN this connection, there is the
case of James ". of Scotland, who is said
| to have lost the famous battle of Floddcn
Field through woman. 1t is argued that
| if the king had seized the opportunity
| given him of occupying 4 favorable posi-
| tior wherein to meet the English forces
| the battle that enSueu might have had a
| very different ending from what it did
| But James fingered at the castle OF III
| tied lady whose charms had captivated
| him. and SO ii was that the southern
| troops were allowed an opportunity of
| choosing a suitable position which could
never have been secured had the monarch
not hesita;ed. The lady was certain
nobleman's wife named Heron, and was
very beautiful.
The noted Russian general, ParanoiT,
was found guilty of treason and sentenced
| to death year or two ago, thanks to
| woman, one of his own family, in fact.
| She gave evidence against him and other
| officials in the Cars service, and through
| her the Empire was deprived of some Of
| her best soldiers. There are many cases
| like this, but there are also numerous
ones that come more precisely within the
meaning of this article.
For instance, during the American war
against Spain, many Cuban women rem
dered valuable service to the American
| troops by acting as scouts and In other
respects fighting for the stronger side.
Thus did they frequently bring defeat for
| the Spapiards, who often admitted the
natives into their camps. imagining them
to be hostile 10 the invaders.
| woman, too, is reported to have lost
Alsace and Lorraine to the French, and
helped to bring about the Franco Prus-
sian war by regularly learning the results
| Of the French Cabinet meetings, while
| she was entertaining one OF the repub-
lican Ministers, the report of these re-
suits being despatched to Germany with
out delay.