The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 17, 1928, Page 11

TT | DTT TT lll JOCTFTNTOOTETT RRB UHV TA UANTAUUc Ue ATUAAT gi Inquisitive , ce Women | Insatiable Feminine Curiosity y, Has Joined in a Unique Society 100. Members of the Fair Sex Wio Are Devoting Their Lives To “Finding What Ivs All About” ities, too, always dis- By ALMA CHESNUT pee A VISIT to the court of the Pope King of Thibet, brea dye ee Margue- rite Harri- son. is just back from secing what makes Morocco click, OWN N ADAME. DAVID-NEEL, French ex- LYE plorer, disguised as a Thibetan, her face smeared with a cocoa and charcoal mixture to give it the proper tint, has been commanded to remove her bonnet at the steps of the Potala, holy palace in the Holy City of Lhasa and stood in terror of being detected as a foreigner. ‘For weel journeyed toward this goal. With Yongden, her adopted son, she pene- trated the Kha Karpo forests, where they saw a phantom city, crossed rocky mountains and ravines, braved encounters with people who might penetrate her disguise and end the venture tragically. Madame David-Neel camped out under the stars, went hungry and, stalking a “ghost lion” in the jungles of India, scaling rj . asta + ml before known the touch of be ae iene a human foot and uncovering the remains of civiliza- tions long , are just a few accomplishments of NaS Mica which members of the Society of Woman Geographers might bef a aes Howerer, to forestall any impression that this is a band of pect eek minine adi let these facts be hastily added. The iti ime who itervewed the inceenible Daa lama i at ea ie man oo an ith a knowl inscrit commissiot ey H 5 a by the French Ministry of Educatton to engage ip research in SoCo Spain tm 9 ‘ il ng at her campfire, met th the east. The member who hunted the “ghost lion” is a special- fcobelal ng pate an spotted leopard face Hatfies 7 With ist in the sociology of women - eastern countries and regarded = fon a lif and broke and holy talk she and her son the adventure purely incidental. her back. Surgeons GaigileShilty. . cwilsioonibe : their way through village after The mountain climber, in addition to being an A-1 Alpinist, told her that she would is a South American specialist, an the member who has played never walk again, such a prominent role in digging up relics of ancient civilizations ut with the same in- has a scholarly interest in mucosa ethnology, sociology and = domitable courage other impressive “ologies” with which everyday people are only she had always remotely acquainted. ‘ ‘ ; shown, she sel about A mere desire to adventure will not win a passport to this the task of getting unique organization however many times a woman has circled —_ well. And today she the globe or how many tigers and elephants she has bagged. walks without a To be eligible she must have contributed in a definite way to cane! And expects the of human know! soon to be able to go toward Thibet’s forbidden off to Dutch Guiana. She was aware that her disguise had worn itself threadbare. Her I which had been dyed black t tch the jet black yak braids she had wound about her head, had assumed its customary brown- i id even the braids were Explorer Adams ready for pply agencies are i iber has at least one book to her credit, —_explori ain, 4 : f L n the Thibetan wilds and Pins eam a requirement, and a majority are lapis see etek ie ge om “ to touch up; even had graduates of universities with an impressive string of letters UT LINING — 4 supplies, mate bie en + gg \ Alston (benilare: the had previously been. She IHE Society of Woman Geographers was founded about Mrs. Adams says crossed Haiti in the saddle, two years ago, in New York, by a group of women who that one of her et the first white woman to believe that there should be some medium of contact be- hopes is that it will accomplish this feat. tween those Sarsg ished in geographi- She has followed and cal work and its allied sciences such as \ : charted the (sails at ethnology, botany, archaeology, natural 4 “en Columbus and Magel- history, folk lore and arts and crafts. lan and visited every It is international in its membership, former Spanish possession including women in the United States, from Siberia to Sumatra, | nada, studying as she went, an- cient races allied with the earliest Americ peoples. She has visited every lin- guistic branch of Indian tribes in the United States, spent a year of travel and Grace Thompson Scion . . . has study in Spain and Mo- hunted tigers in the Himalaya coun- rocco. try, hob-nobbed with strange peoples. In the saddle she trailed the Philippines s served well enough, hat of the dopka tribes. old novice lama, guardian of the palace gates—a gnome of a person with his red face, flat nose, big ears and clerical robe much too large for him— ordered her to remove her bonnet, since a pilgrim cannot enter the Potala covered. So eff came the bonnet.. By a miracle Madame David-Neel passed muster, and crossed the threshold of palace. ip to Lhasa was by no_means David-Neel’s first into Thibet. had been spent in the Harriet sonestery of Kum-Bum in Amado, anna beyond the Desert of Grass, trans- has been an ex. dating manuscripts. As a hermit she ince dhe tag fad spent additional. years in the pnowsbound éalimalavage lieve athe roximal members Thibetan ascetic. She had from Luzon to Sulu, re- geographers. life of a Thibetan ascetic. S a ene pone aa tive’ os be able to do something to turning with first-hand information about the head- ie friends among. high Buddhist per- - “T active sist includes I help young women who are —_— hunters and Moros in the interior. Traveling the 3 Be sonages and_ through ea had se- "hove women 4 sstinctive interested in becoming Roosevelt trail, during a trip into South America, she obtained cured admission to the court of the Thibetan monk-sovereign, ‘ k whe — added to the geographers. motion pictures of jungle folk in their dances and playing “head the Delai lama, who was most prejudiced to foreign ladies. worl rel * i i down th hty jaguar. too, was this audition, which took place in a village ae si (sie EA ae the ie es. Bata Bite, anne tee Goaserts had fed dariig patie cual ba sagan during the war, she visited the French front with the first war clisturbances. She found him surrounded by a weird household : ard a ae lies correspondent's pass granted an American woman by the French of clerical personages. clad in shining yellow satin, dark-red wal si cloth and gold brocade. to. belo. falested ey less colorful have been the careers of other members trhaeled seen cho 608 eee ecaaghnpucoag tay aM pr Ai hers, cach a specialist in | RS. DELIA AKELEY, slight, blue-eyed, is a specialist pecs en ng . tions is expensive and hand-woven textiles, ornithology, Petisary, He Behring ro s Ahem Because ite wants He Siddies to cule “ Harriet Chalmers Adams, Madame David- hotaniets, archaeologists tri i it a »son Seton specializes in the soci ington, ; ‘where at Woche x Rg Neel. |. - smeared her face 2 jologists scar or, tee foe fe piace fap ced lace nega Peet ren Anat neat aa storics—of the Nairs, for instance, i D. C., eg ‘ae with cocoa mee cnmceel jashed the gate of aod socioog sal: se Wy Fran strsmtures peel any in Calicut, where the tables are turned completely about so heves_-soon fe oan : thet s forbidden cis. pe thst the women dominate’ (he wen i all tings aa “3 o eet part ra — [eg Rad yd * « NNIE S. PECK, expert Alpinist, was on her way to the Ba, a M Seton, who watching is pee from her inachan is is wi “ f rf i ies, i whi na tree, was tak by a storm that ame a cyclone so wy find Mrs. ‘Adams ordinarily among her books and be ale fa actual explori % she says, “‘there are very desire to scale this kingly peak. As soon as she had an oppor- her way back to civilization on foot. : a and happy as the proverbial bee. She is small, fine ea ie ig Fly is an tele amount of tunity, and after trying out on “‘little mountains” like Shasta, Among other members are Senora Isabel de Palencia, of vivacious, bg feminine. Her bur ie not bobbed and fon knowledge al ¥ eat to be sathered and compil she ascent and could not understand why such a fuss nage Hy Heenan in We walle nae Madan Eosia bright black imagined, knowledge P greatest importance to science, lit made it. Snethledge, azil, explorer and zoologist; le Emer- os see fag yc #78 Ct cae Bs isd se that bes especially in to roa “rele see famous, unjustly famous she thought, Miss ae F New York, ihe has just returned after two years in ageing Fake re primiti than men can. Peck decided to accomplish some deed that would render her India; Blair Niles, who recently made an expedition into RS, ADAMS will tell you that she became interested in N pag d weg oo f i custom exist, women worthy of the applause that had been given her. So she climbed French Guiana and visited Devil's Island; Marguerite Harrison, M ing at an As a child she was delicate pray pa and pa. po other because the; Mt. Popocatepet! and Mt. Orizaba, in Mexico; made a record —_ just hack from Morocco; Gertrude Shelby, who will soon leave and to public ‘school t0 she was token by hay ted interests. Loe of Mt. Sorata, in Bolivia; explored in Peru at the source {or Dutch Guiana, and Rose Wilder Lane, of Albania. tutors i taught nature Through is ability i hearts 1 o zon, and made the first ascent of the nameless At least three titled women are members of the society— ed Poa = iehoewledoe tpl ar i Beg me to vin te of the People, bat ia ere an Italian princess, Her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Aosta, pay the Geckoning trail appa ~ » Ly neces- fol os ay ® Patience f al not many men have ey [eee oars, of “the apex of America,” she accomplished — African explorer; Lady Hilda Petrie, of London, explorer and At fourteen she went into Mexico on much of this work i “dopeadent its success the most her record feat, the first and only ascent of Mt. Huascaran, Egyptologist, and Lady Dorothea Hosie, of Oxford, a specialist first expedition—and this trip inspired the selection of ber life Mwiausking cowellaton tod’ competion of fects highest own in Per and the highest poi in hs bomipie cn Chia, work, e : attained an American. quascaran Is 21,012 feet high, ach contribution they make enriches the uman twenty-four years engaged i YAMS knows whereo! i than Mt. McKinley. Success ¢: fter five knowledge about the people that inhabit the world and, no wines her aa see wpe cated sonnel ie pei Mo eees in this detailed on bf Ryeuod a tee 1500 fet ihr and nine : ae, Hy Pring ascent. Panes Shak phase is touched, helps toward an understanding in remote fk of South America and in Haiti, where no visited. On her tours she has visited every country in For this record climb she received decorations from the Peru- of the mystery of social origins; throws light upon possible white woman had set foot before, in Indian settlements and in South America, reaching 20 frontiers where no white woman _vian government and from the Lima Geographical Society. trends of civilization. - be vg : (Copyright, 1928, NEA Magasine) LO ae + UTES A UA A IK N= STULL MID DO LEAL.