The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-01-07
MADE BOBBED HAIR.
A FAD IN JUNCLES
Former COED First White
Woman to Enter Near
"River of Doubt"

a former student Of medicine at Cor
nell university and related on the
maternal side to the Schiff and War
burg families of this city, holds the
distinction of being the first white
woman to penetrate to one of the
least known and sparsely Inhabited
region of the Amazonian basin, South
America, and of popularizing bobbed
hair among the natives.
Miss Rogers, as she prefers to be
called, although she is not a member
of the Lucy Stone league, told the
story of the adventurous trip made
by herself and her husband, who is
a mining engineer and graduate
Of Harvard.
1t was story Of crossing the frigid
Nevada de Sorato mountains to Bo-
iivia, of riding the dangerous rapids
of the Mapiri river, of subsisting on
monkey meat and tropical fruits when
their food supply became exhausted,
of narrow escapes from man-eating
crocodiles and of the ravages Of ma
1arial fever
While travelling in the tropical heat
of the interior of Bolivia, Miss Rogers
wore overalls and often just her pa
jamas, and with her bobbed, dark
hair she said she found it hard to
convince the natives that she was a
woman. AS she wore trousers and
her hair bobbed they insisted that
she must be q man.
eff you're a woman" they said,
'sthen where is your babyY
In explanation of this the young
explorer said that native woman
Is rarely seen without baby.
Bobbed Hair Makes Hit.
my bobbed hair" she continued,
~created sensation in all the settle
ments, we visited along the Mapiri
and Benz rivers. In one place all
the women visited me to have their
hair bobbed, and I was kept busy
with my scissors"
Mr.. and Mrs. Mayer sailed from
New York last May. Accompanying
them was Miss Ora Ford of Spring
field, Mass, classmate of Miss Rog-
ers at Cornell, where the explorer
plans to continue her studies.
From Panama we sailed down the
west coast of South America" Miss
Rogers continued, "and after visiting
the Guggenheim mines In Caracolas
we proceeded to La Paz and then to
SOrata, which is the last outpost of
the telegraph lines.
while were were at La PaZ, from
which we made side trips into Peru
10 see the Inca highways and ruins
we kept hearing of strange country
In the interior of Bolivia, from which
few travellers had ever returned. As
for woman going there, that seemed
out of the question. / was determined
to make the trip, though the United
States consul warned us that it would
be very dangerous undertaking."
To navigate the shallow Mapiri
river, Miss Rogers told how they had
constructed "balsa" RATS from the
trunks of trees. They started down
the river in July with the tempera-
tire about 40 degrees with an Indian
TO steer them over the rapids, which
are very treacherous.
At one of the first large river set.
Elements they visited George Merritt,
an Irishman, who had an Indian wife,
Miss Rogers said, and large family,
who look part Irish and part Indian.
Here they remained for nine days,
owing to a national celebration at
which their Indian guides all became
intoxicated.
They reached the most sparsely
Inhabited region when they started
down the Benz river, down which no
white woman had ever gone before.
The Indian oarsmen became i'll with
fever, dropping off one by one. The
river was infested with man-eating
/. cr0codiles. Their food supply ran
short.
Ate Monkey Meat and Fish.
So for a time they subsisted on
monkey meat and fish which they OBJ
tanned by dynamiting the river. They
also ate plantains and the yucca,
which is something like potato, she
said.
II was more afraid of the croco-
dies" Miss Rogers went on, ''tlan
the Indians. I shot many of, the croc-
-Odiles with my rife, and / also car
ried a tiny pistol for protection"
Navigating the Madeira river, into
which flows the Roosevelt river, for
merly known as the River of Doubt,
the party finally reached Manos,
which is the head of steam navigation
On the Amazon. The young explorer
Brought back with her several mon
keys, macaws, parokeets and parrots,
also crocodile skins taken from those
she had shot and captured.
She showed great scars on her arms
from infected mosquito bites. At one
time all three In the party were Sc
riously Ill from malarial fever.
Find Drunken Hercules"
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