Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1879-10-10
Letters.


each week for the past two months
from young men and women in the
eastern states that we feel it duty at
times to answer at least some Of the |
most pertinent Of them. i'he following
is one from an eastern young lady. We
give it in toto:
Mr.. EDITOR: you oblige the
writer, although person unknown to
you. b. perusing this letter and an.
swcring a few questions which and
others 6eem Of vital Importance. The
attention of myself and a number of
my young lady friends has been turned
to the fact, by current rumors, that
eastern Washington and northern
idaho is country promising in every
respect to be in the near future one Of
wealth and political Importance. We
are impressed with the idea from these
reports that your country is not sur
passed even by California in an agri
cultural or commercial point of view.
With this beautiful cture b fore us.
cleaned from reading the public letters
of tourists that have been among your
| people, we feel an inclination to visit
the fields where industry will not sit
begging remunerative labor. In the
vi,lare in which the writer has lived
from oh .ldh cd to my present age Of
twenty. to my knowledge, since | have
been capable Of judging, the prospects
for young lady to gain an indcpend-
ent livelihood have been meager in the
extreme. With the close Of our school
days we find ourselves at period in
life of almost total inaction. There is
really nothing for us to do We would
prefer TO have our lives wear QUE in the
duties of some honorable occupation
than rust out in chcercss idleness,
though our parents are abuudantlv able
to let us rust. We cannot all become
wives since we are in the msjoritp with
our gentleman friends ten to one
throughout this country. We are ca.
pable to fill those positions in the busy
world Of statesmen, clerks, or teachers
or overseers of culinary departments.
What we would trouble you to answer
Is, from the preface have given yon.
does your country hold ont any induce.
meut that would warrant number Of
young ladies to make a tour Of ohserv.
alton there in person for the sole pur.
p,sc OF locating and making it their
homes? CEcIL FLETCHER,
Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y.
Sept. l, 1879.
Miss G. F.:-All you have heard in
regard to the productiveness of this
country and its future prospects is
equally so. We doubt if you have
hard the half. As commercial,
agricultural mineral and grazing coun-
try we believe it has no equal Emf
grafton is flowing in rapidly. But too
many Of our farms and places of bust,
ness in our city are owned and occupied
BY single men We think the reason
Of the scarcity of young men in your
country is because they have come here
to live. There are certainly many and
new avoca,inps developing every day
for young ladies seeking respectable
employment 10 prosperous and grow
ing country like ours. 1t is paten,
. fact that any business either in the city
; or on the farm could be conducted with
more prof by married than by single
, men. and we doubt no. that if young
, ladies of tae proper qualifications were
more abundant in this country than
( they are that men who make fortune
so readily here would not be SO eager tr
depart from us. and farms and gardens
8 would soon loom in those beautiful
improvements that are indicative o
, home.