Evening star., 1937-07-25
LIST FAMOUS WOMEN
American Ladies Who Are Called Great
Come From Every Imaginable Profes.
sion, According to Publication.

Churchill Semple. one stunt girl.
Olive Hatch; one botanist Jane CO..
/ den: one chemist, Ellen Henrietta
| Swallow Richards; one cabinet officer
! Frances Perkins: one fnancier, Eettv
Rowland Robinson Green: one Gov
ernor, Nellie Tayloe Ross one Mormon
/ poet. Eliza Roxey Snow; one mountain
/ climber, Annie Smith Peck: one nor
ologuist, Anne Newport Royall: one
marksWoman or "shsrpshooter, Annie
! Oakley; one photographer, Margaret
| Bourke White. one Girl Scouts leader,
Juliette Gordon Low, and one violin
! ist, Maud Powell.
OTHER brackets are: Abolltiontsts.
archeologlsts. art patrons. astron-
| omers. business executives, civic work.
ers, CongressWomen. dancers, drama
, lists, engineers. entomologists. ethnolo-
| gists, explorers. foundresses. historians,
home economists. hymn writer's, judges.
labor leaders. lawyers. mothers Of
noted persons. naturalists, organizers,
painters, physicians, pioneer women.
| religious leaders, screen stars. sculp-,
] tOIS, SlllStIS. SullI dS Isis SURGEONS,
translators and welfare workers.
No less than seven spies are men,
! tioned-Lydia Darlington Darragh and
Fanny Bullock Workman, real"
daughters of the Revolution: Belle
Boyd and Rose O'Nell Greenhov Of
the South, and Pauline Cushman.
Emma Edmonds and Elizabeth van
Lew of the North.
A courage like that required in war
time is also manifest in the case Of
Two women described as parachute
jumpers Tiny Broadw;ck and Phoebe
Fairgrave Omlie.
But women meriting the adjective
'indomitable,' are numerous Miss
Hellman applies the word to Annie
Pike Greenwood Of We Sagebrlsh
Folks; Mrs Evelyn Harris the bar
ter lady: Mary Kidder Rak. "a COW
mans wife; Katharine Ball Ripley
of Sand in My Shoes: Eleanor de
la Vergne Doss Risley, heroine Of An
Abandoned Orchard" and Mrs. Htlda
Rose OF The Stump Farm"
Some of the names are unfamiliar.
For example. who would guess that
Mary Ludwig Hays MCCauley conceals
Molly Pitcher of the battle of Mon
mouth? Or Helen Louise Leonard the
glamorous Lillian Russell?
On the other hand, many OF the
names need no explanatory introduce
ton. Lydia Pinkham. perhaps. was
the most widely celebrated woman of
her generation. She still is known to
millions of people who probably never
have heard of Martha Washington or
Helen Keller.
THE list serves to bring back to pub
lie notice few forgotten ladies"
who ought not to be lost Emma Iaz-
arus, the unhappy American sister"
of Thomas Chatterton. is a case in
point. Another is Rose Hawthorne
Lathrop. daughter of the writer of
Twice Told Tales s"-she abandoned
the world to devote herself to the care
of patients suffering with incurable
cancer and, AS Mother Alphonss,
earned place in any proper Hall of
Fame of which it is possible to con-
ceive.
Miss Hellman's purpose has been
eminently practical. She has UNDER
stood that people are interested pri-
marlly in their contemporaries To
meet the current demand. therefore.
she has listed Grace Abbott. Rose
hampton, Pamela Bianco Carrie
| he
Buck, Senator Hattie Caraway, Carrie
Chapman Gait, Mrs Calvin Coolidge,
Katharine Cornell. Joan Crawford
) Gertrude Ederle, Zona Gale, Mary
Garden, Lillian Gish, Helen Hayes,
Katherine Hepburn, Malvina Hoffman,
Fannie Hurst, Eleanor Holm Jarrett,
Eva LIE Gallienne, Anne Morrow Lind
bergh Ruth Hanna Mccormick
Simms. Evalyn Walsh Mclean, Edna
st. Vincent Millay, Helen Wills
Moody. Grace Moore, Kathleen Nor
ris, Julia Peterkin, Mary Pickford,
Brenda Putnam, Mary Roberts Rine-
hart, Norma Shearer, Cornelia Otis
Skinner, Gertrude Stein, Lillian D,
Wald, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney.
the Duchess of Windsor and the
mother and the wife of President
| Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Yet there are certain remarkable
omissions, inevitable, no doubt. in the
circumstances. Shirley Temple may
be cited for illustration.
All in ALL however. Miss Hellman's
labors have resulted in something far
more important than a guide to liter
ature. She has demonstrated in her
list the romance and the variety Of
American life. Her book is an index
finger to the color and vitality OF
as rich a civilization as e'er the sun
si1one on.