A WOMAN TRAVELLER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 500, 6 May 1909, Page 3

A WOMAN TRAVELLER.

:-. Mrsi.Erench Sheldon,;the' : first woman J?el,k>w oftthe Royal Geographical Society,' gave a lecture recently at Queen's Gate Hall^lJdn- . don, Von a white woman's experiences 'alone in 'savage'Africa.V Mrs.; Sheldon has been ill,' .the-result:6f ; an ; accident in 'the Congo, for nearly two'years/and thiswas her. reappearance. ■.•The. leqture was' illustrated'by a nun,'dred.< original .and :>unique ! lantera-slidos' showing the strange places to .'which,' Mrs. alone and unaided, has penetrated in her viriousexpeditipns, which were undertaken before' the .railways .had made ..'of. Africa' a holiday-. 'place fpr '■ all and sundry .-hunters.' •: ■;.'. "v.-' ,\ .. is, an -ardent upholder .of women, ;and has; done much ; in her,travels ; to ; prove the" power. and status of, woman among ' ;the -people./with".:whom ; -she'•■• Las sojourned. .She ;may'-fairly.claim:, to'have, proved that >hat',a.man can do a woman can do,.'and that without losing,pne,particle of thp many qualities jYwhich -go.-to'make up the sovereign! ■ qualiij.'of:.womanliness.; She has- raade,.a close'.study of: women and children, in "many 'landsj.'and.-has directed; most of her efforts to ..their '.bettering,; believing that the -future elevation -of .the savage';races ; must comb jthrough.-the; women,, and theireffect on .the children*, Mrs, .Sheldon has ..translated':■ and dramatised .'.' Salaminbo,'':' being ::'• keenly. ■- in-. .terested J .in/,the. drama-:and , literature gener rally; ./Indeed, she; is ohe.of, the.'most'veTsatilo .personalities, of the '.day;.;, and a living Uproot that; energy, l enterprise, andValertness. ' at, appoints ; to: the different'.facets of lifo. ;are ; bptter,prosorvati6ns'of youth and'health ; than any number of, creams ■ and .powders: and ■ 'treatments.; -"i/-..-,.-, ■:■'■■■:■;■■■ '~■. .■■.:-■.'■:;■■,■.