Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-11
STATUES PLANNED
FOR 0MENCH|EFS;
NO MENTI0N0 OF MEN
Feminine Societies Want Dues
for Deeds Carved in
Stone.
BY CAROLYN VANCE.
Especial Correspondent OF The Trihunel
yonyrtEht. 1922. BY Great Falls Tribune

Especial correspondent OF Lna IrlDuUEi E
Copyright. 1922, By Great Falls Tribune1
Washington, Dec. 10.-Heroine wor-
ship is a new and spreading cult.
More incense is being waited in the
names of women of achievement than
ever before. And the promoters are
women. Reverently they are picking
out patches of great women-a dozen
to a batch; they are erecting statues
and monuments to great women, and
they are hanging pictures Of feminist
leaders all about.
The long heralded task of the II
greatest living women Don is to be
announced by the joint congressional
committee with Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait leading. The Women's Universal
alliance has just purchased a million
dollar estate in Washington upon
which they propose to erect an
aeropolis to womanhood-honoring
particularly the great dead of the
feminine sex. The general federation
Of yoments clubs is now engaged in
furnishing their new headquarters in
honor of Julia Ward Howe. The
Woman's Democratic cluh of Franklin
county. Ohio. have sent for Mrs.
Emily Newell Blair's picture to hang
upon their walls. These are the lead
ing items that indicate a growing fad.
The Franklin county. club of late
refuses TO entertain pictorial re
,nindars Of mere males on the walls Of
their club house. These left overs
Of a day that is past viii no longer
confront and affront the democratic
club woman. She writes TO Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair at the national democratic
headquarters as follows
1--WE have removed all pictures Of
noted men who decorate our walls.
We are securing pictures OF our rep
resentative national and we'll known
women to be hung in those spaces and
write TO ask you to send your pic
ture that we may claim you among
our first women
Reply BY Rhyme
Our reply from the women's bu-
reau was embodied in a lackf1l rhyme
BE gentle ladies-even though firm
don't step too hard on the poor male
worm"
The picture of Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait occupies Il bit of wall space
on a line with that of Abraham Lin
coin in the Cleveland, Ohio. h%eadquar-
tiers of the League of Women Voters.
SAYS Miss Belle Sherwin of that city.
Lucreta Mott and Susan b. Anthony
have spaces also. i don't think that
women will go so far in their heroine
worship as to carry the women Of the
hour about on their shoulders as men
do their heroes said Miss Sherwln.
They have too much sense tor that.
But they are very loyal TO proved
leadership. The woman who would be
a leader among women must not be
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show ability in the truest sense be
fore women are willing to put her
on a PEDESTAL
There was a time when even women
admired beauty in others OF their sex
above all other qualities. said MISS
Sherwin.
Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas was n
of those supremely beautiful women
In the days before the Civil war, the
doors of Perr's, the principal drygoods
store Of the capital. had to be closed
to keep crowds from following her
about when she did her shopping.
But of course beauty still plays a
part. as witnessed by the reception
Lady Astor received on her recent VISIT
to this country. American women
simply went crazy over her, because
SDt pbSSshStl DcLi ,hoIAb IAN III
Some women have received a little
recognition for their achievements by
being lined in everlasting marble. The
statues that have been erected to WON
en- in this country could probably be
counted on the fingers of one hand.
Out in Galesburg, H.. Mother Mary
Rickerdick, the Civil war nurse, has Il
memorial to her memory. The statue
Of Hannah Dustin stands Somewhere
in New England" She was the pioneer
woman. the heroine of a story AS they
wrote il in memory of her.
Indian Fighter
The Indians killed her baby and cap
tured her and another woman, carrying
them off to their camp. In the dead
of night she killed Il of them, scalped
them. escaped, and received a bounty
for the scalps in Boston,
There is only one woman in the Hall