Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 19.-Who are
these women who sit today in the legis-
latures? Sewing circle ladies? Intel
ligentsia2 Chatter boxes? Suffragette
types with mannish clothes and hands
that grasp forbidding umbrellas?
The answer is no.
These lat women legislators of 43
States have come to politics from as
varied personal pursuits as the men
whose places they have taken.
They are ranch owners, sheep herd
ers, women with the courage to muSh
through Is miles of unsettled, snow
blanketed territory carrying food to
starving Indians; river pilots, steam
boat operators, physicians, playwrights,
journalists, psychologists, orators, mu-
sicians, mothers. grandmothers, women
who can bake delicious apple pies and
are proud of it.
Woman Is River Pilot.
One Arizonan, Mrs Nellie T. Bush, a
Yuma attorney, is the only licensed
river pilot in her State-man or woman.
Mrs. Emma Yearian, legislator from
Lemki County, Idaho, is the States
''sheep queen" known internationally
as possibly the most successful operator
of sheep business in America. One of
her sister legislators is proprietor of
one of Bosses largest hotels.
A picturesque feminine figure among
lawmakers is Mrs. Rosanna c. Payne
of Ballclub, MINI. She is a merchant
in a sparsely settled section of the
State. Formerly she operated a steam
boat and feet of fishing vessels on
inland lakes. Two years ago. hearing
of distress among Indians of Eer con-
Stituency, Mrs. Payne went alone on
snowshoes through IS miles OF unset
tied timber land, carrying heavy pack
of groceries to them.
Mrs. Corrine Roosevelt Alsop, Serv-
ing her third term in the Connecticut
House, is a niece of the late President
Roosevelt.
First of Sex in Senate.
In Wyoming, where women have
been voting since 1869, Mrs. Dora
McGrath is the first woman ever elect
ed to the Senate. Following her cleo
ton last September she remarked that
rather than go down to the Legislature
she would prefer Ito stay home and
win prizes for my apple pies"
Mrs. Lillith M. Wilson Of Reading,
Pa, is probably the only woman So
cialist in any Legislature. She is one
of the first two persons OF that party
ever elected TO the pennsylvania Gen
eral Assembly.
Among Texas women lawmakers are
Mrs. Helen B. Moore, wife Of an Army
officer, and Mrs. Lee j. Rountree, pub
Usher of the Bryan Daily Eagle. Sew
eral other States have women Repre-
sentatiyes who follow newspaper work.
Started Paper 80 Years Ago.
Mrs. Belle Reeves, Wenatchee, Wash,
lawyer, started Wenatchee'S first news
paper 80 years ago, setting every line OF
type by hand.
Mrs. E. l. Mckee occupies seat No.
! in the North Carolina Senate. Her
husband accompanied her to the Capt.
toll and announced that the Senate was
sin for a lot of back seat driving"
Mrs. Sarah E. Kellogg. serving in the
California Legislature, Is grandmother
and defeated three men for election by
a plurality of 5000 votes.
NebraSka'S Legislature has one won-
an member, who, despite the handicap
of blindness, has led an active public
life. She is DR.. Claire E. Owens. An
other Nebraskan, Mrs. Mabel Gillespie
Is serving her fourth term on program
of fewer and better laws"
For the most part the work of women
in the Legislatures has been directed
toward welfare and school legislation.
(Copyright, 1881, by the Associated Press.)