The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15

wtiIe many American women are eA
 -. .hots and while few of them have even wandered as Tar aneio as African and Indian jungies. m pursuie of big game, there seems 10 pc hone ,G ,,,bo as vet has actually Killed loh ~, Bic rative wilds. like Mrs. Eric CO., nant wife of the British Consul at Ser hera SomaliIand, who has in her tlihe shot two immense African lions she and her husband have maoe 'seNe a eYtensiy, exploring expeditions, and It was in the course of these that tne hrave woman brought down her huse and savage game .,,,,or of Ii,,,ns creatures, however. student as well as hunter, she has made solid con tributions to geographical and ethho, Io1icaI knowledge and has been elected n member of several learned societies' Were she a man" says Lonoon pa per, "she would no doubt long ago nave been knighted in Fecognltloh VI :, e,,tr,hmtions to geographical science. 7. One If inc best shots of either sex Tn all England, is a young girl Ahnie Primm. really an extraordinary marks- uoman In rife contests where all her oontastants were skilled marksmen belonging to shooting clubs, MISS Ill 1 in one season has won seven out or nlne prizes. Not long ago, Tn posiole score of 200 she made ISL
 Eor some reason a fad for hunting has recently developed among ladies ot the German court. perhaps because the l F,mpe TOT and Crown Prince are so Iond l of inc sport. German writer seeks to justify the fad by going back to the | days of the Greeks and Romans TOT | orecedent, mentioning also the fact thai | the ancient goddess of hunting was 2 | woman So it's quite proper TOT "o' 1 men to be hunters and shooters.
 | Ladies of the German court general lv do not apear to have gone outside | the deer forests and game preserves O
 their own land for prey, but inside thu l boundary they have fired some notable 1 shots. The most famous woman stat 1 hunter in Germany is the Countess Mir bach. who has received prizes at five O the Berlin antlers' exhibitions He | trophies were stags horns, showing 1 variously from twelve to sixteen ant lers. At the last Berlin exhibition
 very young lady. Baroness Von Erian
 ger. received a prize for the pair
 eight branched antlers, which were evi
 dence of her skill. A renowned femin
 inc hunter of Germany, Frau von Hell
 dorf, has killed game in East Afries | and her display at the Berlin exhibitio
 attracted wide attention.
 At least one American woman. Mis
 Annie Alexander of Oakland, Cal, ha
 made a hunting tour and remafkabl
 one in East Africa. She did not. lik
 Mrs Conant, kIll a Ii; n. but she had
 shot at enc and wounded him. To ht
 and her father. who was with her on th
 trip, 1t was given to witness sigf . that few hunters in recent years hay | seen-a herd of ten lions in their nS ', five jungle. They were Jn the huntin . ground of Gwas Ingishu. Miss .Ale' D ander. her father and their nati' r guides were just pitching camp upc I the borders Of a marsh when suddenl
 hooking at them over the tall grass, al
 peared the heads of three female lion !, If was not aulte like gazing at Il .i 6erce beasts witn the safe bars of z cage betw Fhem aud the spectator
 They, look sd at the nunsins party. q