Mexico weekly ledger., 1914-12-10
Ricketts, & Whitney
WOMEN HAVE wARREn. no

Some men laughed 6~erSvcly across
She e when LADY Cook Of London, al
recay after the Outbreak Of the Eur
oPeNn War, proposed to raise an army
Of women soldiers
Other nen sailei Amnsedly on this
a6e Of the Atlantic upon hearing La
ay BrigES a few days ago. address a
mass meeting in New York as fol-
lows:
The daughters Of the British En-
piFe are as ready to work. march,
fight or die for England as the other
half q cur people who wear short
hair. And should the drain on the ma
nOnAl resources Of that gender be 50
severe as to require their services in
the fighting ranks they viii fall in
and III the gaps and carry the kings
standard to victory"
Women Wounded in Russia
disabilities, which might well have
been given a less free rein hitherto,
are more restrained, however, now
tAxt news comes by cable that a con-
siderable number Of wounded women
are returning from the Russian bat
tie lines
Colonel Tomilobbskaya's daughter,
who. IN mans uniform. distinguished
herself as a scout leader on the Au-
gustovo front, carries three bullets in
her body.
Japanese female shell divers, it is
reported, would have released and re-
moved the mines laid by the Germans
IN the waters around Kiao-chaw if
they had not been prevented by a
strict enforcement of the laws of ia
pan prohibiting their employment in
military operations.
The pages Of history bear the
names of many noted warriors of the
so-called weaker *.
Once upon a time, as the story
runs. the Chinese women, discomfort
ed with the unequal share granted to
them in the government, rose in re-
belion- The revolt came so near be-
ing a revolution that the emperor and
his ministers, frightened at the un-
expected display of power, decided to
make a recurrence of the danger i'm
possible by decreeing that henceforth
the feet Of the girls throughout Chi
ma should be bandAged.
Women Who Led in Battle.
The Amazons. according to early
Greek legends which probably have a
basis Of fact, made expeditions to
the coast Of Asia Minor, where they
engaged in conflict with Priam, Belle
rophon and other heroes.
Boadicea, through flaming appeals,
drew the tribes of Britain to herself
in A. D. 81 and led them in battle ia
an attempt TO throw off the Roman
yoke.
Joan of Arc, the maid of Orleans,
defeated the invaders of France and
fulfilled her promise to have Charles
VII crowned at Rheims.
Catherine ii, the Semiramis of the
North, was always at war and invar-
iably she conquered. Under her the
march of Russia to the sea progress
ed more rapidly than under any other
monarch, and the long sought prize
of Constantinople was nearer to her
grasp in ITO than to that of her
grandson in 1858, when it required
the armies of Europe to beat him
back.
American Woman Worked a Gun
Our own revolution developed Mol
ly Pitcher, who worked a gun in the
battle Of Monmouth, received the
thanks of Washington and a lieuten-
commission.
Deborah Sampson, born in Plymp-
ton, at the age of II enlisted in the
Fourth Massachusetts Regiment I'M
der the name of Robert Shurtleff
the War for Independence and
served for three years in the ranks.
Her sex was not discovered until she
was taken to a hospital in Philadel-
phia to be treated for an attack Of
brain fever. Upon recovery she re-
reived an honorable discharge and
later Congress gave her a pension.
The number of women who actual
Iy bore arms in the conflict between
states fifty years ago was much
than is generally supposed.
Took Her Husbands Command
Nine. Turchin of Illinois, wife of a
colonel, for example, took command
a regiment of volunteers during
he illness Of her husband, and Mrs.
Brownell, wife Of an orderly sergeant
If the Rhode Island infantry, asking
10 indulgences, carried the colors of
l company at first Bull Run.
Women, as a sex, are devoted to
1eace flor which heaven be praised),
tut they have proved that they can
light if they will.--Boston Globe.