Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-10
LAST SEVEN DAYS
IN NEW YORK WERE
SURELY WOMEN
Fair Sex Led in Athletics, R0-
nance, Crime and General
Dare Deviltry.
BY JESSIE HENDERSON.
esselsi ce-rsspendsnt Of Great Fails Tribune
Copyright. 1922. By The Great Falls Tribune.

New York, Sept. 9.-It has decided
ly been 'ladies week" In athletics,
crime, romance and general dare de-
viltry, the men as compared with
women, have made no more noise than
a canary compared with a boiler fac
tory.
First came the nine girl athletes who
had represented the United States at
the first women's international event
abroad. They returned on the Sax
onia, pointing with pride to various
Sable Of Newark. Camelia ran 100
Yards, jumping hurdles two and n
half feet high, in IA 2-5 seconds and
if you think that easy, just try 1t
yourself. She proved her tiny feet to
be the fastest women's feet in the
world and she made herself otherwise
famous by one dazzling remark,
French women wear such queer
clothes" Shades of the Rue De La
pax!
Well, and then came along Ger
trude Ederle. This Is year old mem
Der of the women's swimming assocla-
ton of New York entered a JAG yard
race against some other girls VINO had
broken records. Gertrude swan the
distance in 7 minutes, % 1-5 seconds
and incidentally broke five worlds
records for speed and set a seventh.
She's a bobbed haired blonde person
with an engaging grin and so utterly
lacking in any smarty, cat gloating
over her achievement that n begins
to have a lot of hope for the younger
generation.
Made New York Cockeyed
You'll have to admit that in the
mater of speed of limb the ladies
showed the gentlemen a clean pair Of
heels. But, ali, wait till you hear about
the ladies' In the little matter OF
beauty. After anguish, hair pulling and
heart burnings, such as are always at
tendant upon such ordeals, four lovely
lassies were selected to represent New
York City in the beauty carnival at
Atlantic City. The four girls left town
in a seaplane and as they leaned over
the side to say good bye to admiring
thousands, the whole of Manhattan
went absolutely cockeyed trying to
tally and compare the various phases
of attractiveness possessed by each
and all. Another such contest and an
other such send off and this village
will be even more a total wreck than
the railroad, coal and clothing strikes
have left it. .
But passing lightly over speed and
beauty, consider womanhood this week
in relation to science and war. h
decoration of officers of public in
s~truction-no, neither do we, but it
must be something pretty nifty be-
cause it comes from Paris-is to be
bestowed by the French ambassador
upon Mrs. Robert G. Mead of New
York for her war work and for her
81 = ~ foona,,r - nG
radium for Nine. Curie. Mrs. Mead
elected the Y. M. C. A. women in
France during the war and thoroughly
earned this public decoration, what
ever it may be.
And if il comes to romance, con
slider the ladies nee more. You simply
can't count on 'em at all. For in
stance, Harry HALTER escaped from
Wards Island and what was the first
thing he did? Telephoned his wife and
invited her to dinner! The first thing
the wife did was to accept the invita-
tion and the second was to telephone
the police. Soup had barely been con
sumed when in walked the police and
the dinner party was distinctly off.
Killed Royal Etiquette
Moreover, if you are charged with
killing the lady whom you charge with
breaking up your home, you can still
get alimony from your husband while
you are in Jail. This, at least, is what
Mrs. John ]. Reisler has found to be
the case. 1t is only q few weeks since
Mrs. Reisler was arrested on the
charge of shooting her W sister, and
while she is in Raymond street jail
awaiting trial, her husband is in Ian
ger of Ludlow street jail unless he
comes across with $50 a week alimony
and sundry arrears.
Then, too, there was a killing of an
entirely different sort credited to
Katherine Dickey of Atlanta, Ga, who
was persuaded to tell about it when
she arrived on the Mauretania. She
killed Royal Etiquette as dead as a
door nail at Deauville a fortnight ago.
King Alfonso of Spain was dancing
with Miss Dickey when she suddenly
left him flat, rushed up to another
man and kissed the new conner with
zest. The other man happened to be
her father.
And what do you know also about the
attack on the Episcopal ban against
remarriage after divorce, the attack
made by the Rev. DR.. Percy Stickncy
Grant Of the Church OF the Ascension:
1t may be that the year-oid OF
a betrothal between DR.. Grant and
Mrs. Philip Lydig has nothing at all to
do with the clergyman's views. But
you can't deny that where there's a
difference there's a divorce, so woman
may fairly take the credit for a big
share in this latest agitation.
Danish Cooling System
Keep your fingers crossed when
you see Miss Ingeberg Nielsen OF the
horizon-this is another bit of ex-
element which the week produced.
Miss Nielsen is a blonde assistant
to the Danish police and she is here
as a delegate to the world confer
ence of police chiefs, the world on
ference being yet another of those
scintillant ideas with which the brain
of Police Commissioner Enright fair
ly ~sizzles. Miss Nielsen, moreover,
is one of the worlds greatest finger
print experts and unless you keep
your hands in your pockets or other
wise engaged, she will whisk out her
implements and have you fingerprint-
ed, classified and coded before you
can say "help."
The classifying is good. but the
coding is better. The Danish police,
among whom Miss Nielsen is includ-
ed, have reduced finger printing to
such simple terms that if @ leave
a slight smooch on a busted win