Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04

well am afraid" said, firmly. "You
can tell them all 50 and wen land ut once"
We did, with q shock which upset the s. F. A.
more than us.
Not only is it not in the least brave to do q
dangerous thing of which you're not frightened,
but surely it Is not brave to do It even If you
are frightened, unless it serves some useful
purpose.
The young man who, unable to swim, threw
himself into the Seine Winter or so ago, to
rescue workman who had missed his footing
on barge, was merely foolish. The workman
who happened to be q very good swimmer, had
great difnculty in saving his would-be reScuer.
COURAGE. above all things, means keeping
your head. To prove It's possession, 1t 10
not necessary to run purposely into danger. 1t
is only necessary to remain calm when you
are there.
Well, which is the drawer, man or woman?
On the whole q woman's courage is instinc-
tive or impulsive mans is reasoned and
objective A woman is perhaps more hopeful
than logical. She may see ways out" where
none exist, but she is never weighed down by
consequences.
To some women any risk is stimulant; to
most men it is . responsibility. Therefore,
I were going into danger, I would rather have
q woman with me. When was well in the
middle of it, would rather have a man.
Woman Is ct heart an adventurer, even
though her experiments be limited to the shape
of her hat the color of the walls, or the form
IN which yesterdays joint shall appear at to-
days lunch.
It has been suggested that physical courage
belongs to man and moral courage to woman,
but which category includes endurance of pain?
think women bear not only pain but dis
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certain traveller who, when asked If her hus-
band accompanied her to the wilderness re-
piled: "Oh, mol It's not the sort Of country
you can take a man to-"
woman will endure an eternity Of make
shift and discomfort with patience and courage.
She is often much less capable Of visualizing
danger than man, so she viii disregard it in
making her plans.
MY first travels around the world in tramp
steamers, banana or copra boats river
junkS and RATS or aStride anything four
legged from an elephant to o water buffalo,
were made with a woman, whose invariable
answer, when officials flung up their hands
insisting. IT'S impossible 20 go there" was
Really Well, when shall we start?"
During an unauthorized attempt to cross
China between two opposing armies, we were
captured by the Southern forces. Our rice junk
was stopped on the Sian River by strategic
barrier Of boats, our guide was beheaded as a
spy and, after a futile attempt to escape by
land in the dark, we were treated as prisoners.
One night soldiers came to fetch my COM
panion. She was carried across the river into
the town and ordered with a couple of bayonets
. foot from her back, to cure man whose
wound was in the last stages of gangrene
My companion extracted an obvious bullet
and so impressed the onlookers that, thereafter.
we were obliged to do first-aid work with soap
face -cream, scissors, and such handages as the
cobalt blouses of the soldiers would provide.
TEN years ago was staying on cattle sta
ton In Northern Australia Land there Is
measured in square miles. There are no fences.
The boundary riders go out on three-month
circuit and they meet no one on their trek.
1t was the branding season, and every man