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;.nn Q , BRAVE the rigors of a frozen
a ; North to make a record honeymoon .
, i r;; o Ar jungles 6f Africa in order' '
o tt?7f m, i o irAt' death while
pursuing elephants in Ceylon, and shooting
tigers in Burma; to drive an automobile in -one
of the fastest races pf endurance of the
world; run a motor boat so swiftly in a storm
as to be, plunged into the sea; to drop over
it OOO feet from a balloon; enjoy lunch under
the waves in a submarine boat such ddven-f"
lures, and hundreds - of others, have been'(
sought by women in search of thrills.
v ,For when d woman seeks a genuine f ulU
pledged thrill, she is apt Jo go the limit.
Do you recall the experience of Madame -
du Uast, the amazing trench woman, in' the
Paris-Madrid motor race -a race which she -characterized
as a race with death? You
probably, have not fdr gotten how she pene-
iratea Morocco to pay a social visit to one of ; " ' she u a tu woman, fain good" looking, of the nni -
the most villainous brigands of that country; Mm 6x1 :art took; part m the Paris-Benin
t ' ." . A . ' lltAfllAhlU MA lM 1sf)1 I ftftiaV AnVAMl KA -Will Ska lhAII .
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Parisians exclaim. "Greatest (port la s wld world,
B leader of fashion, notabl woman of Parla, moat '
extraordinaire woman on earth"
And ad jectivea fan to espresa the admiration "and .
wonder with "which Parla regarde the madame.
automobile race In 1901. . 8 he corcred .750 mllea without
: in the crannies of 'the feminine braxn teatanu. v , : . .
0W adventures and exploits have been COn- iV: 'Wt hatre: won had? It not -been that he waa
a-J ZJ rrfL'-...lJ f L' v "oman, aytnpathetlo and kind. During the latter part:
cetved and carried out. Who would think of r . JOf the racfti th, crucU, p.rt,Swhen ehe wa wu ahead.
chauffeur, lay. bleeding amid
machine. t , v ;
Kadame aped by. She , aaw the" white face covered
iaking a honeymoon journey into the wilds of i there wee an accident, -x
Labrador but a woman f . Who would ro up : tbrl' f 5a"eMdm
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-. t - f While In Morocco madame visited, the pretender, and
r 5 lived in. a, tent near the -warrlor'a audience tent. One
; night a (hell fell right outside a,nd tore one aide of her
' teot to tatters. Madame du Oaat gathered the fragments
of the shell and had -them made Into a paper weight
MMibAn H 7hurjtcn, hVto Pitted znx
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" ' - trip had been, made. Her husband, a marine engineer
- In the United 'states Navy, had obtained a furlough for
U months.;. The honeymoon where waa it to bet ner
friends . all ased in great excitement Mrs. Tasker
, whispered "Fawhcst North." They would cross Labrador
" on aleds, from coast to coast! - . " ?
Tasker took three ttmea as much food along ss waa
advised. And thla did ' teot prove sufficient," for the
couple were compelled to kill their sledge dogs before
they reached the coast ' :-' ' ,
.In the early mornings they would awaken In their'
tents, the temperature at a freestngly low ebb, and moan
for hunger. . Then the guide, George Elsen, a Cree In
dian, would catch a dog, alash hla throat and remove
the hide.. A Are waa built and the carcase placed over
the flames. . Mrs. Tasker would slice the dog meat and
seaon It . At first they could hardly overcome their
" n"W. ' mturn "in- Par'lWanoJnceoTlii"
th. nteAder another vl.lt , - . . J l v V J , - (The party-left the railroad In the Canadian wllda at
What will aha next dot ' Parla eagerly waits to,a.
wnat -wouia you inina ox a ona wot iiiiit! -- - ,
Blacptaalng on June IS, 1906, They' secured a boat from
Indians and went north on one of the rivers flowing Into
;irn a -ieddlnc trio to the .North Pole? Mrs. Stephen -Muason Bay. They went up the bay on one of the steam
x vr t..v. ; Phii0,inhiiJ'didnf exactly ao. to the ! Prgea which makee trlpa once or twice a season to
North Pole, ; but with 'her husband crossed Icy u&raaor
-?fm&. Pu Gast Mas ferrlv Las?
fer. Life, in Motor Boal &tcinp ya
would think of taking lunch in a submarine
boat far below the surface! ' ' .
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DINO-A-UNQ-LINO-LlNa! ' -Mrs.
-John M. Thurston, wife of the former .
United States senator from Nebraska, ran to
. the telephone in the dainty boudoir of her, east
ern home. , s , ; '.V . ; .'. .:-:.'-..-
"Hello." ' ' " 1
"Good morning: hi this Mrs. Thurston? " Thla Is Mrs.
Irfke speaking.'. Can ' you and the senator arrange to .
take lunch with me next Thursday? It will be a quiet
little party. Admiral Knaioott will be there." ' f - -
"Oh, won't that be charming! Let me see yes, yes;
we shall be delighted to come"
"It will be at Bridgeport-" ' i: V
"Where?" j '
"Bridgeport, Conn.that Is, off Bridgeport Under the
Ocean! Way, way down." ;
. Mrs. . Thurston heard a titter of laughter, A lunch
. under the ocean! Way, way down? i
I l-ion't understand," she murmured. .u-.-y
. ' "Why. I shall give the lunch down in the' ocean
under the water. It'll be quite novel; we can watch the
fishes as we eat from the windows on my son's sub-'
marine boat"
"Oh!" Mra Thurston understood. She was Invited
to a lunchnon with Mrs. J. C. lake, and in the diving '
1 boat which had Just been completed by her son, after .
i experiments of years. v
FIRST SOCIAL EVENT IN WATERY REALM
3o? 'Tes, indeed! The first luncheon ever given In '
the depths of the cold, cold sea! The first social affair
; In the watery realm of sharks and whales and levia
thans and . other ; terrible sea ; monsters. Wonderful!
. Unique! - t , . , . -
And the luncheon was a success;1. The party' con
sisted of J. C. Lake, father of the inventor; Mrs. Lake, ?
former Senator and MVa.. Thurston, Rear Admiral Mor
decai C. Endicott retired: Cortlandt Field Bishon. tiresi-
dent of the Aero Club of America; Augustus Post, Alan
R. Hawley, on of the defenders of the International
Challenge Balloon Cup; R. B. Brown, of Washington,
Senator Thurston's law partner, and Lieutenant Radler
de Aquino, naval attache of the Brazilian Embassy.
The party inspected the boat whtoh recently engaged
In : the submarine tests off Newport. The boat . went
down to the bottom of the sound, about two miles away ;
from the harbor. It remained submerged for two hours.
Meanwhile lunch was cooked and served on board.
After the meal both women entered the air chamber,
from which divers leave the boat. t The aperture was
opened and the women looked undauntedly at the whirl- '
In watcr-at-thelr. feet-.- The: water was kept from en- '.
pulling theni only by the heavy pressure of air, Yet'
the . women looked on without a tremor. ' .They even '
turned and chaffed the aeronauts upon their failure In
mustering aerial navigation.
Among modern., women adventurers Madame du- Cast
1 olds hiKh place. Here is a woman who knows not fear,
whose daring and .'ntrepldity have fairly staggered Paris; '
v ho has warttad In the face of grim death and flung her
Jcimnoa In his teeth. ' - ' ,
Madame du Gast undoubtedly Is a sensationalist and
Vns done everything Jom jumping from a balloon o
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with blood. In the distance other machines appeared '
like specks, ' She slackened her machine. 1 The other
specks grew Into enlarging monsters and sped, roaring, .
by. Madame du Gast jumped from the car, ran to the 4
side of the Injured- man, pulled him from the wreckage, '
tore strips from a petticoat, bandaged hit wounds, placed '
him In a. comfortable ' position, jumped Into : hey auto
mobile and sped away. She bad lost half an hour and
came In nineteenth, which waa creditable Indeed.
: Madame du Gast .later entered the Paris-Madrid race.
There were 116 starters. She donned huge goggles, an
oilskin coat a sailor hat strapped under her chin, and
a veil. . She started amid the cheers of thousands.
. The machine fairly jumped ahead; with each revolu
tion of the wheels It gained In speed. Madame threw on
all the power. , She was part f the great) machine,
leaping, flying, through the air. , " , .
Towns sped by, the roads seemed to pass beneath her
like a distily unwinding ribbon. Other machines sped -
.' ' " iJ f . - J 1 ' Jt hy. About her rose volumes of dense, choking dust Vet
in me an, 1300 feet, aressea in tunaay vest , ; ane went fftiter and faster, she aw Renault hurled
-picture hat, lace StOCKtngS, dainty slippers ' from, Wa machine as from atatapulfc She passed Rodei
and descend to the earth in a parachute , " '" "l a -t "p- " was mang-ea ana crusn
. . . rri 1 , d. -With a sickening feeUng she saw Barrow dash lnt
Who, Of COUrse, put a WOmanf Who 'else Va tree. Madame du Oast sped on; she ran over thre
Into
three
dogs, yet never lost nerve. She was the eighty-third
arrive at Bordeaux. She waa sick, exhausted, and d
dared that because of the horrible accidents she could
never race agate. i'A'kV:-'--'- '
On May 7, 1905, .seven small motor boats began a race
from Algiers across the Mediterranean -ta Toulon.
Madame du Gast, drove. her 4$-Morsepowr Camilla, a
small motor boat ' A storm' came up; ' the waves rose
mountalnously. Tet Madame du Gast sped on through
the waves. . , The boat tossed like a feather.
In the midst of the storm and tumult madame was
her ambition was still to run the swiftest motor boat to a point farther north 'in that' btoak land than any
I afloat, and would stop at no risk. ; -' ', woman ever; traveled. '
When she went to Morocco and visited the brigand Mrs. Tasker - was Miss' Florence Applebaugh before
Valliente her friends said she was going the UmlJ.' And her. marriage In "1901. 'She was young, vivacious and
when they read a report that she had been captured. andJ pretty She was popular In society, and often told her
held for ransom they shook their heads In tin "I-iold-you- girl friends that when she married It ; wouldn't be a
so"1 manner. At last, they said, madame had come to.. ( trip, to Euroje or California for her. . She'd go where no
grief., ' - ' - . ' - ' ,i .otjBr 'bride, had -gone. & Where? 7 Ah, the : girts could
But when -Madame du Gast returned to Paris laden . guess.. ,-.;.,;;y .. -':.::- '. y-j.i--
She was married in August 1901 - Her fsiends remem
bered what she had said about the honeymoon. ' No, she
hurled Into the sea and the boat was lost The cruiser i wh tTOm 4110 ola banatt ana tne prgienaer to xne
Kleber nassed as the accident haooened. and the woman. - Moorish throne she laughed gauy and twmedner rnenas
nearly dead, was -brought from the waves by one of the'5 because of their credulity.
sailors. . captured.. Instead she
- Yet when she got to Paris Madame du Gast dedlared tain roDDer.
gather furs. , MV. Tasker often amused himself shooting
. bears. ' iV.-" '., '" ':,v '" :''', -7s.-" "' -i '.-. i: H .'
The tnp across Labrador was fraught with hardships,
but Mrs. Tasker did not murmur. And when they Anally
reached the opposite coast, the young woman had the
uatlsfactlon , of knowing she had done , something ; no
woman had ever done. .'K '' ., .:
The honeymoon of Colonel And Mrs. Max Flelsch
mann, of Cincinnati, was perhaps not so rigorous as that
of Mr. and Mrs. Tasker, but it was remarkable. it
extended froifl the West Indies to the Arctlo regions, and
thence to eastern Africa. ' . ,
The couple were married In December, IMS. They
took a trip to the West Indies In a yacht, and spent the
winter cruising in southern waters. Then when spring
cams Mrs. i'lulachmann suggested a cruise to the North.
INTO THE FAR NORTH
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"HoW far shall we go?"' asked Colonel Flelschmann.
.''..' "As far as we can, dear," said . Mts. : Flelschmann,
very sweetly. And they did. ' . . t t
They sailed to Tromsoe, Norway, where they char-
- lered, a whaling vesseL Through a vast field of (ce that
was penetrated with difficulty the ship plunged norta-
' ward. - ,(".-"'.' ;'"'::';7'-.:..''.V'".-7.v' j. v. .7.-,..
'.'How did you enjoy your honeymoon?" a friend asked
Mrs. Flelschmann, when she returned to Cincinnati.' ,
"It was ideal," she replied. "The temperature was 7
:'si 2$ degrees below sero." sy..'..y.. ... i -a '
On the trip Mrs. Flelschmann shot 1M seals, thirty
reindeer, four blue foxes and ninety specimens of birds.
It got so cold and the sea so full of ice that the party
was unable to reach King William's Land, their destlna-; ..
,tlon. They arrived at Tromsoe on their return In the
latser part of August , Theyi took a flying trip to ,
: America. ' :::-:-''?,.'.''
. "I suppose you've had enough - traveling?", said a
friend to the beautiful little woman.
"No, Indeed," she replied, with emphasis.
"And where on earth are you going next?" exclaimed
the friend In dismay. - ,- -.... ,
"Lion hunting," laughed Mrs.' Flelschmann, blithely. '
And the couple did.; " . , -
They went to London, bought an equipment of guns, .
' tents and supplies and proceeded to Africa. They landed .
at Mombassa In the middle of the winter.' They hired
- sixty-five natives and plunged Into the jungle. '-
Mrs. Flelschmann's costume on the trip consisted of
a short skirt and shirtwaist, high boots and a water
, proof bathing cap.' Insects nearly distracted the party. .
, They remained In the Interior seven weeks. Mrs. Flelsch
mann shot three lions, three buffaloes and a number of
antelopes.- The couple returned to London In the middle
of last May. 7 , . . w.., ..,- .. ; v
MVs - J. W. Martlnes Cardesa, of Philadelphia. Is
among the. leading sportswomen of the world. Mrs, . .
Cardesa, us the notion strikes her, will go on her palatial
yacht to Newfoundland, Africa or"India. Annually she
Is said to spend 1100,009 on hunting trips. . - : . -
She maintains a fine lodge at Landy Point, New-
- foundlatid. There, several years ago, she shot the largest
y. bull caribou ever taken from the North country. -
, Into the jungles of . Africa this woman, -wealthy, cul- '
tiired and a social leader, "has made her way with a
caravan of 200 natives. Lions, African buffalo, hippo
potami, rhinoceroses, all fall before the unerring aim of
1 thla remarkable woman. Her son, T. D. M. Cardesa, is '
an admirer of Great Danes, and possesses some of the
7 most valuable' dogs In the world.. He is quite a sports
man, ana onen goes 10 Arnca.
When Major Powell Cotton, the noted British ex
Julity, CerUinly she had not been . told them, shand her husband were not yet Prepared ' gmlhecUpfed he'handt delightedly Maid: j
le had captlvaud thej hirsute moun-;". to go. The, friends waited, then lost Interest ; " ., "Africa!" " . ., . -
.' ' - , )'' Four years passed. 7 Finally she toli a chum one day A The couple took a trip to the floating village on Laka"k
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EMJARDT'S successor ' has arrived, -bo
many in France are' proclaiming. That
country, has - for' years been agitated over
tne question, "After sparah, the Divine,
who!" ' , 1 . -
-Couldit be "possible -that a genius of large
enough gauge to filt her shoes lived, unknown to "
.the critics, or must' theater-loving .Parfs., be satis-,
PlacE
a FRENCH writer once said that "the woman is at
. f least half the comedienne."
fied with a mediocre start asked one of another.'.
, , ,Such a one does live; she has finally 'asserted ,
herself,' according to her admirers. She is Cecile t ,
Sorel beautiful, ' 32, Tivacious, - witty, ''magnetic, ,
graceful all that Bernhardt waa in her palmjulaya ' 1
nd the best of it is that she has, it would seem,
many years of life ahead in which to increase her
triumphs. J l 1. - ' ' ; s ' ' "
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' "My grlrl," he said,-one day, "you are fitted for much f
Katf A thtntrn Ik., wish t...ilnlni. hA.a 'lhttntla t. TiA "J'-'V
Sorel has the figure without which no proper . '"If',. J"L. . r comeaienne-an actress m me oest
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- ioea couia oe xormed or. neroism. Her gait -is . His nrediction nroved a true one. On his recommen-
suppie yet nrm. ner action broad and free, and her eyes t' dation -Cecile entered the Vaudeville, under the direction
moni expressive in tneir sweetness. ,,f Albert Carre. Hnr flmt lln of dutv was that of '
'1...' Jex,b,' b.ha , "walking lady.'Mn which she had opportunity of wear-,'
power, tenderness. coouetrv."canrlc and mirnetlm er in m.i. . rr
cats tones that are the best expression of fine shades of
Finally she . was entrusted with a ' coude of Darts.
which rescued her from the shadow.: Among them was r
that of the queen of Naples In "Afadame San Gene" and
a courtlsan in . "Lysestrata ., where In an antlqile tfawce
and1 scenes that called for , abundance of graceful ges
ture she, drew the favorable attention of the critics.
7 Next at the Gymnase, she mounted still higher. Her
next notable success was as Valentine in "Lcs , Trans-
A 1 1 ihv dnM he An thin?
rariblana will tell you that through ter amaslng
'rats she lias become a leader in Parisian society. She
a social liomga. And in the same breath they will
.'. i.:-;ier that her late husband made his money by selling
; on the instalment plan and hiring out clothing.
. 11 yea a ago she was unknown a widow with money,,
"n hfrn the elite of the gay French capital shut their
jurs. Hut t:day ! . . . : : '
"Madame du Gast; I'lntreplde sportswoman, oul, oul,"
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or all her youth, she has already spent a dosen years ,
-tn the theater 1 Outride of her roles she has had no 4
career. Her debut was the .result of a meeting with
Eugene Bertrand, npw dead, long manager of the Varletes
and later director nt h nrra . . "
One day there came to his office lh the former house. itiantinnM
SZ5,TJ ?m JL'. wh0 01 J5fd n-ement ? And , ,. Upon her formal entrance on the stage of the Odeon
accompanying her was ( a little comrade, two or three , he neglected nothing that could tend toward" perfecting
years ber Junior.. Thls;; was Cecile Sorel, a maiden ti her dramatic education 'In pursuance of this object, she
h ' ,fc . . ' , . ,i r H even dared to make her debut In the role of Euphroayne,
,P y also wnt to go on the stage.'1: Inquired Ber- :, one of the 'Three Graces," In the poetio triple of that
' irana. ; , 1 ,v-. r . f -,,j ., . '.:.;...,. . .. , name. ' ",v ; -'". 'i-m-i r :' ,- '
ni,J . iir0tr?il fm too.ywmgrbut some time I'd ' i,,u was a daring thing todo. in view of the changes In
k-'W A eou'Ptey the very smaUest of parU I'd 1 public taste, but while the public" was distrustful and
nSlZ iA v.. . ' ' , .-hesitating, It; served to reak the ie...f.'-,'
m ' SS a . her come and see him. She did so. ; This was followed by a great success In ."IEsprit
She took, his counsel, and for a time, was hla pupil.v ides Betea" and 'other plays,
An Engagement at the Varietes followed. - Several small ; These Drilliant stage triumphs wre onlyVxamples of
charactera were entrusted to her, In which she did credit , . her-many triumphs in both older roles and new crea
to herself and her natron. KartranH annn us that ha' iin .
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- Si-lvia,' In ' "Le Jcude L' Amour et du 'Hazard," Is . ' rvytcivry
possibly the most difficult role in the ordinary French
Albert Edward, where the pigmies live in peculiar houses,
built of straw on Dlatforms. which float on the lake.
Mrs. Cotton spent ' days in the African jungle, often
plunging Into the thickness with a gun, alone and un-
afraid. Mrs. Cotton shot, a number of animals. Her
husband brought down an elephant, the tdsks of which
weighed 198 pounds. ..,'' - : - " ,
, Miss Louis Smith, a pretty maid from' New Haven,
, paid a Visit to friends in Belleville, N J., last May.
With them she went to' see a balloon ascension at Hlll
Vtl side Park, one Sunday. She was introduced to John
-7 Mack, the aeronaut, who was about to ascend. - '
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"I wlsh T were going up." pouted the young woman..
Mack laughed' like a man scornfully.1 1
1 "You'd be afraid," he said. 1 The young woman flared'
.wlth indignation. - - t,
"Well, I'll iust show you, you you "
And with that she. jumped into the wicker basket of
the balloon. Bhe -wore a lovely feather , hat, a fluffy
silk shirt, a spotless white lace snirtwalBt. She stooped -and
tied a piece of elastic about her skirts, just above
,.her dainty ankles, ,
-4 . , "I'll show you," she snapped, ajid told the men to
release the balloon. ' , ' -
,t Of course, her friends protested. They even wept.
But no use. 'The young woman simply said she'd go
up. Ann up na went. Amia tne cneenng or nunareris I
the balloon, rose in the air. The girl paled a little, ffhi I
waved her handkerchief. The great balloon went up, im Cw I1
up. sweeping over Passalo river. The younsr woman's .
friends became hysterical.,;.'. Then, while they held their -
breath they saw her grasp the parachute, lean over the
basket emd take a jump. - x
A murmur of dismay swept ove the crowd.'. ' But the '
parachute swelled out, and, like a bird, the young woman,
feather hat and all, came slowly downward. - She landed
hear the Lackawanna Railroad station at Klngsland. As
soon as she touched ground she gave a little scream and -
'fell senselessi-very naturally fainted. -.- ..::':' .
, ' Dr. William H. Workman recently arrived In Paris
from India. . There he ascended the Munkim range of
mountains In 8uru, Kashmir reaching an altitude of '
23,720 feet the highest ever attained by man. And with
him on his trip was his wife. : Mrs. Workman is said to
A have inspired the. trip. She even went her husband one --
better, and alone scaled the top of the mountain, which
was 23.300 feet high. -- ,-,
A woman recently started for Smith's Sound In North
Greenland, to find the wildest Eskimo tribe. She Is a
sister of Knud Rassuesen, the Norwegian ethnologist
who accompanied her... They expect to reach the Ca-
nadlan mainland In 1908.- -.
.'...-'.. Mrs, W. Guest, the champion woman motorist in the '
world, recently arrived in this country. 80 as to become '
i . expert with . -the automobile, Mrs. Guest worked beside
- wen In a factory for two years. She has a certificate In '
, Kngland as an expert machinist s She has made record
. 1-trips from Pari to 8t Petersburg. .