The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-03-31
''W3NEy WANTED IN WYOMING"

|
As a result of the publication of an article
il the Laramie Boomerang some time ago,
under the above head, perfect deiuge of
letters has been turned loose upon the Office
| frora women all orer the country. Bill
Nye remarks We visa to say that the orig
inal statement was correct, and was written
in deadly earnest Wyoming wants
women, and wants them bad; but there il
no clamorous demand for sentimental fossils
who want a bonanza husband and pass
from the effete East. A young and rapidly
growing territory is, of course, largely pop
ulatel by men, but they are not as a rule
mlIionaires with bad cough. Most of
them are healthy and still retain their
mental faculties. One soft-eyed hyena.
who has no doubt been ignored for thirty
y:ars, writes us poetic epistle which ought
| to melt more o5lrrate heart than ours.
| It is written on six a es of foolscap, in
| violet ink, anil in blank verse. Her soul
goes out to us in way that has created
coolness in our family which it will take
| years to eface The idea of cooling large,
red doughnuts in hot iarl, or wringing out
heavy under clothing in soap suls AMI
| hanging them out in the back yard on ,
cool day, does not seem to occur to her.
There are very few households here as yet
| who are able to keep their own private
poet. We try to keep up with the onward
| march of improvement, so far as possible;
but we are most of;us still green to give
up our me ais and gorge en- a stanza Of cold
poem OF the half-shell. The crisp, dry air
here is such that hunger is the chief yearr.'
in Wyonin3 all a gool cook can get one
huadcel an | twea y fy, dollars per month,
where bilious pot w>ull be bothered
ike sin to ge5 a job at five dollars per
week That is the reason we aro writing
these terse all perhaps unylllant words.
We want to discourage the immigration Of
q large m ,jority of thos, who have WRITER.
us on this subject. Thsy are too fresh ant
AMI too yaarnful in their nature. We want
to do the Territory som, gool, and to ca
courage class of women to com, to this
region who would know enough to construct
a blttoahole on an overcoat SO that it
wouldn't look like the optic Of a cross-eyed
hog. Still, we do not consider wom.n a
drudge or a slave, across the nape of whose
neck the overshoe of the tyrant man is
planted. We look upon woman, howeve-.
as useful il the great struggle of life. Gsa-
orally she is on the side of tho struggle AL
the tyrant man on the other. Ols thing.
however is settlel There is not such NAL
rush at present for blank N ,kers
there is for women who can make pis that
will not taste like stove lid veneered with
cod liver oil. In using these crael wor,ls,
we do 50 in order to silence this Ubiquitous
howl on the part of these modest violets.
who expect to get OH the train here AMI
meet a confirmed invalid at the depot with
a carriage and a marriage license. The old
man with the hectic flush and a life 1nsur-
ance policy for one hundred and fifty thous-
and dullars is not at present ransaeking
the four corners OF the globe for little
rosebud thirty nine years Old who don't
know enough to boil 4 eakettie.-Boom-
crane