Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-06-26
EMINENT WOMAN SUPPLY


 They find that Mary Surat. Queen of Scots. was the worlds most fa- nous woman She has no close com petitor. Jeanne d'Arc comes next on the list There are 19 names be- fore an American woman is found. She is Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. The analysis shows her to be the most famous of all American women. The first 20 on the list, which scien- lists claim to be the 20 most famous women in the world are:
 Mary Stuart.
 Jeanne d'Arc.
 Queen Victoria.
 Queen Elizabeth.
 George Sand, the novelist.
 Madame de Stael. the novelist.
 Catherine II Of Russia. Maria Theresa, famous Queen of Hungary and Bohemia and empress of Germany.
 Marie Antoinette, ill-fared wife of Louis XVI.
 Queen Anne, of England
 Madame de Sevigne. early French writer.
 Mary I of England, Bloody Mary.
 George Eliot, the novelist.
 Queen Christina, of Sweden.
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning. the writer.
 Madame de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV.
 Josephine of France, Napoleon's s first wife.
 Catherine de Medici. wife of Henry II of France.
 Cleopatra.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe.
 Almost anyone could have selected a better list than that. Yet dealing with cold facts of history in relation of the deeds these people performed and the fame they acquired from their deeds. science has decreed that these 20 women are the most famous in the history of the entire world. They will not pretend that thes wo- me mare the only ones who were fla nous, but they are positive in their assertion that these are the 20 emil rent women of history.
 The key to the system lies wholly in the application of their refinltlon of fame to their researches. They have not called it fame. They refer to the women as eminent" A per- son is eminent who is high in rank, office, worth or public estimation; conspicuous, highly distinguished" ," says the Century dictionary. Dr. Francis Galton who made the first scientific study ow distinguished men, calls man eminent who attains position achieved by person in 4,oo0. This was the basis on which the in vestigation started.
 Cora Sutton Castle, of Columbia University, carried on. the research and she spent long time at 1t. Her method was to take six biographical dictionaries that covered the entire world and make a list of all the wo- men mentioned in them. She then went over this list and eliminated the names that were not mentioned in at 1ooct }broo of tho hooks
 Her intention was then to cut ,out all but 1000 women and investigate them But she was surprised to find that there were only S6S women in the list when she got through who were mentioned in three of the books and these included p Bible char aGters.
 The marking of the women were given in accordance with the amount of space they occupied in these dic- tionaries. Mary Stuart was found to have 6O7.67 lines devoted to her fame. Miss Castle found 49 women with 100 or more lines and that the average for all women was 43.2 lines.
 It will be seen immediately that this method of calculation included every woman who was mentioned in the dictionaries. Some of these at tained eminence-mention in the dic- tionaries-because of the eminence of their husbands or other relatives. Others were famous because of their crimes or vice.