Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-05-10
College Graduate to Hit the
Trail in AdirondackS for
Love of the Life.
RELATIVE OF ETHAN ALLEN
Miss e. M. Young Points Out Many
Ways fora Woman to Earn a
Living in Open Air.

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forever to the cities and hold only to
the vocations and avocations which
arc considered as peculiarly belonging
to her sex Therefore ! cannot see why
SO much ado Is made about me-a very
ordinary girl-simply because l love
nature so pasSiOnately that / wish tn
bc always in touch with her and be
cause am going to act for the coming
season at least as Il guide through the
magnificent wilds of northern New
York
The foregoing is a statement made
Q few days ago for publication by
Miss Ella Marion Young, formerly OF
Philadelphia and direct descendant
Of Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame.
who for the past three years has been
q nomadc resident of half dozen vii
lagos in the Adirondacks and along tine
shores of the St Lawrence. says Il
special dispatch from Lake-of-the-
| Woods, y. Y. to the New York Times.
Miss Young is at present occupying
little rustic cottage belonging to her
brother-in-law. DR.. John a. Miller or
Atlanta. and situated upon Green is
land, in the Lake-Of-the-NO Gods.
An announcement appearing recent
Iy i'll Lake-of-the-Woods paper stated
that Miss Young would act i'll the ca
pacity of guide during the coming sea
son. ana the girls of score of villages
whispered and wondered. They were
sure it must he Joke" for many of
them knew Miss Young and We're
aware Of her accomplishments. How
ever. that there might be a grain of
truth IN the report was suspected by
number of them, for she had already
won Il name as Il champion of out OF
doors living and as the foremost hunt
er Of her sex in the Lakc-of-the-W Woods
section Of the Empire State. Many
large sized ''dontS'' came in her mail.
"OF course take none of the letters
too seriously" she said to the corre-
spondent who went over to Green is
land. No doubt many of my girl
friends are very much in earnest. but l
must own that the more dolefully ad-
visory the misSives are the greater Is
my enjoyment of them. But | wonder
if the girls think | am ;huS easily dis
suaded from carrying cut an idea ]
. have had IN mind Coz years? | was
always cond Of tic great outside Of
houses md at Gryn NGvr took delight
N all athletics. bit oaly now have 1
reached The deal.
Long Hank Back To Ethan Allen.
NO" said Miss io,nS pleasantly, an
sweT.GE t." newspaper mans request
for more ahcut herself and her fami
ly. ~ don't ;!t;G& K is necessary to
make q biography of this story do
, yc@? You see, t is q long bark back
70 Ethan aleu- and Fort TiconderoGa.
AMI while we are al proud OF the old
hero. there is TO CC1i reason why he
should he exploited in my behalf. Per
, EA3s. though. the love for the lakes
snd foods ari mountains with which
m blood Is filed was generated in the
vc,us Of the Revolutionary patriot,
whose authority for most things was
. tho great Jehovah and the Continental
congress
THE whole world of honest endeavor
is or2n to women. and there is no good
! ronson why they should not take adj
va:tage of it. Do not understand me
as being in favor of my sex going into
coal mines. machine shops or nerve
| rackinG factories. But they may be
come more generally small farmers.
dairy propretors. fruit raisers and
poultry keepers. to say nothing Of be-
+ coming carriers of mail in the rural
free delivery system. railroad and telc-
+ graph agents. guides. etc.
Il really pity those of my sex who
think that they must he employed in
stores or offices to maintain certain
standard of responsibility They de-
y lude themselves into thinking that to
be country girl is to be a little ont
OF date and not quite refined. But do
they ever stop to think that health.
happiness and beauty are more fire.
. Guently found among the tall pines
o than among the 'skyscrapers:
, III IS said that | am the first girl
!. guide. But you may be sure that there
VIII he others. for I myself will gladly
:. help any girl who wishes to take up
: the work.
- Many girls and women come to the
= .tdironLacks and the st. Lawrence ev-
;, cry season without male escort They
u spend much of their time about the
u hotel vcrandas and really see but little
of woods life. though a majority of
II them are anxious to do So Some OF
u these-and l believe without good rea
> sun-do not care to have men guides
v and it IS these who. | believe. will ad
q dress themselves to me-
It Or. William H. Young. Miss Young's
4, father was n nrDmineuf s;rr-rCuD n;
e, Philadelphia and at one time pro
ii feSsor of medicine at the University Of
IT Pennsylvania. He died Il w;dovcT il
e 1901. leaving comfortable fortune tC
his daughter
a Chance For Sartorial Genius.