Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1920 — Famed Woman Traveler. [ARTICLE]

Famed Woman Traveler.

Madame Pfeiffer should take her place in history alongside of Rolf the Walker, or Traveler (Ganger), for no woman, living or dead, has accomplished so much with her legs. She was born in Vienna in 1797. A love affair having gone askew, and an unfortunate marriage to a man thrice her age, turned Ida Pfeiffer’s thoughts into the wide, wide world, and she began her famous journeys, four voyages, which went four times not only round the world, but in and out of the world. Including the islands of cannibals near Java, the, mysteries of Peru and Ecuador, Bagdad and Otaheite in the Pacific ocean, Panama and the United States. If she had been a gifted writer we might have had valuable data. But it is not, fair to ask the forehead to equal such underpinnings kA power and endurance.