The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-04-14
The Kind OF Women Wanted in the
West.

Al result of the publication of an
artlce In these columns some time age
under the above head, a perfect deluge
| of letters has G N turned loose upon the
Office tom women all over the country,
who evidently mistook the drift Of the
editoria upon Wyoming's want.
Instead OF answering all these letters
separately and personally, which would
/ be utterly impossible without nine stem
! ographers and tweIty-seven coarse-hand
writers, we wish to say that the original
| statement was correct and written IN
deadly earnest.
/ Wyoming wants women, and wants
them bad, but there is no very clamor-
ous demand for sentimental fossils who
want "A bonaza husband and pass from
the e6ete East
This paragraph probably puts the
kibosh on about rs per cent. of those
who have written us, SO far.
A young and rapidly-growing Terri
J tory is, OF course, largely populated by
men, but they are not as rnle million
aires with bad cough. Most of them
are healthy and retain their mental fac
ulties That is the reason they do not
care to import horde of weak-minded
gushers and turn them loose upon
thriving municipality.
One soft-eyed hyena who has no doubt
been ignored for thirty years, writes us @
poetic epistle which ought to melt a more
obdurate heart than ours. 1t is written
on Six pages of foolscap in violet ink and
/ blank verse. Every word has an orna-
mental tail on it, and the It's are crossed
with delicate little hair line that looks
like Saratoga wave on ball OF butter.
Her soul goes out to us IN thankful
ness in way that has created q GOODNESS
in our family which will take years to
efface.
The idea of cooking large red dough-
nuts in hot lard, or wringing out heavy
undertaking in soap suds and wrlnglng
them out in the back yard on cold
day, does not seem to occur to her.
There are very few households here
as vet that are able to keep their own
private poet. We try to keep up with
the onward march of improvement as
fast as possible, but we are most Of US
still too gross to give up orr meal and
gorge ourself on a stanZa of cold poem
on the half-shell.
The day may come when we Will be
glad to sacrifice beefsteak for divine
affiatus, but it will be some little time
before that period Is reached.
The crisp, dry air here Is such that
hunger is the chief style of yearn in
Wyoming, and good cook can get 1928
per month, where bilious people would be
bothered like sin to get job at 50 per
week.
That Is the reason we are writing these
terse and perhaps ungallant words. We
want to discourage the immigration of
large majority of those who have written
us on this subject. They are too fresh
and too yearnful in their nature.
We wanted to do the Territory some
good and to encourage q class OF women
to come to this region who would know
enough to construct buttonhole on an
overcoat so that it wouldn't look like the
optic of a cross-eyed hog. We wanted
to throw out an invitation to womanklnd
to come here and locate, but we did not
know that such people az responded
classed themselves as women. we do
I not consider woman a drudge or slave,
across the nape of whose neck the over
shoe of the tyrant, man, is planted.
/ One thousaLd times nay
We look upon woman, however, as
useful In the great struggle OF life.
Generally she is on one side of the strug
gle and the tvrant man on the other.
One thing, however, Is settled. Iherf
is not such a mad rush at present fol
blank-verse makers as there's for womeI
of sound sense who can make pie thaI
will not taste like stove lid veneerec
with cod-liver oil.-Ldranlie City Boom
erdnQ.