The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-01
WOMEN SOLDIERS
Some of Their Conspicuous Feats on the Field of
 Battle,
BRAVE AND EFFICIENT
They Have Fought Good Fights and Their Victories Have Been
 Large.

The town of Grenoble has remem- bered, after 260 years, that 1t owes something to gallant lady and has decided to erect an equestrian statue in honor of the valiant and gracious Demoiselle Phyllis de la Charce de la Tour du Pin. In cooked hat and coat of grenadier, holding aloft her trus- ty sword with curls falling aover her shoulders, the sculptor gives us in bronze, says the London Standard, the presentment of this fair warrior maid
 She Is only one of long list of tfie, daughters of France who have up- held the traditions of their race and honored the history of their sex. France, the country of Joan of Arc and Jeanne Hachette, has always boasted the wit and courage of it's ladies. and the Echo de Paris recalls in alluding to the proposed statue a few of the most illustrlous of these Phyllis de la Tour du Pin was one of that race of heroines whom the genius of Tasso and Ariosto Clorinda and Bradamante, simple and modest and pure In their private lives, fearless | and free in the field.
 Those who care to read may learn from the old chronicles how Phyllis equipped a company of her vassals and putting her self at their head rode boldly through tine plains from Gap 0 Die to Valence to guard the passes | through which the mercenaries of the Duke of Savor were hoping to invade | the Dauphine. Suffice 1t to say that she alone held Dauphine for France and justified the device of her illustri- ous house, "Chez nous femme vaui homme" Her feat of arms brings ur the memories of many another hero. inc.
 In the troublous days of the Fronde
 when the rivers were tinted with
 blood and the scent of the iris was
 mixed with the acrid smell of powder
 was 1t not a princess of the blood roy
 al, the Grande Mademoiselle herself
 who, accompanied by her two friends
 Mines. de Tiesque and De Montenac
 put herself at the head of an army
 and seized the town of orleans, an ap
 panage of her father, Gaston dor
 leans, brother of Louis XIII? In thu
 fight In the Fraubourg St. Antoine tn,
 royal "frondeuse' herself insisted oi
 setting the match to the touchhole o
 the first cannon that thundered iron
 the Bastille to cover the retreat O Condo.
 Under the Grand Roi again tn charming Mile. de Premoy coveret
 herself with glory under the nam
 of the Chevaliere de Balthasal
 Among the Vendeens how many Ven i deennes? Nine de Rochejacquelir Mme. de Bonchamp, Mime. de Sapin , aud, Mile. Renee Bordereau an F Mme. de Beauglie. the last one lead , ing a troop of horse of her own, wit carbne slung at her back. And ther
 were other heroisms than those of tn 1 sword and battle. Listen to Olymp
 de Gouge demanding the right to de fend Louis XVI at the bar of tn , convention with the words: "Wome a who have the right to mount the seal s fold have also the right to appear 2 n the bar" And Mme. de la Roche e t.-Andre, crying through the bars ( k her prison to her sons, who were bt e ing taken out to execution: "Goodb, : my children, Adieul Die like Yer S deens!"
 q And Virginle Ghesquiere, wh l. thought her brother too delicate ft if service under Junot in the Army 6 the Republic, but not herself, and toe s the uniform under his name, Distii