Omaha daily bee., 1886-06-30
PLUcKY MONTANA WOMEN.
Maids and Mothers as Successful
Bread. 49, iii1,i;SS'' =lha Fair Sex
in pOItri,S


Scattered all over the broad prairics oi
Montana are refined and cultured women
bred in influence and ease proud, young
and hopeful, called by the misfortunes
OF their husbands or led by their desires
to enter and achieve in new fields the
mission of life, TO surrender society, tho
home and friends and scenes of their
youth, and march boldly to far-ofl
wilderness and endure privation, toll,
labor, and suffering. But these women,
says 4 Sadie (M. t. correspondent of the
San Francisco Chronicle, have grown to
be brave. Industrious, Sclfrcliant, full of
pluck and energy, perfect horScwomcn,
healthy, hearty, active and independent,
ard in many eases about as pretty and as
plump rs the very best of climates can
make them. Now, the typical Montana
girl if left alone will succeed where an
ordinary man would fail. With no vices
they stick closely TO business, and if bent
on tree claiming, homcStcading or pre-.
Cmpting n quarter, half or whole section
OF land, they generally stay by the claim
to the end and prove up on time.
Many OF these cntcrprSing damSclS
wouldn't have a husband at any price
Again, many, after laying the foundation
of a comfortable fortune, are taken in
by some lazy bachelor wh) comes loaf
ing along, sees the chance, marrcs the
maiden, and settles down into u nice
ready made home. Our girls are bread
winners and no mistake They are mp to
all sorts of schemes, such as ranchlng,
herding of sheep or cattle, school super
lntendcntS, and even politics. The latter
should be expected, however, as the fc-
males OF Montana have the right of suf-
frage extended to them in case they hap
pen to be taxpayers. AS nearly every
woman in the territory is taxpayer,
jNy r. Il, Ill.
perfect right to do. In Bo2enan a few
miles west of here, one can see plastercd
all over the town placards appealing to
the passcr-by TO "Note for Hamilton, the
peoples choicc,' or "Givc your vote to
Darcy" or Vote for Nichols and re.
form.
Hamilton, Nichols, and Darcy were
candidates for the school superintendent
cy of the county, and fourth candidate
was in the ilcld-a man. Ii is needless
to add that 'thc hOrrid man" was beaten
by all three of the girls. Hamilton com
ing out ahead. A local paper came out
few days before the election with the
following: Hamilton enters the field
against the odds of regular party nomin-
atoms. Hamilton has got sand: she will
stay until the polls are closed. Hamilton
should be elected. She says she isn't
afraid of road agents and that education
Is her forte Also that it would afford her
pleasure to hop around from one country
schoolhouse to another in the perform
ance of her duty. The men of Gallatin
county are confounded mean if they
don't rnn Hamilton in" There is no
question but what female suffrage Is a
benefit to Montana. Female jurors in
cases which involve intempcrance,
breaches of promise, and gaming would
hang culprlt on moderate testimony.
of NNritI oil i,lc IN,
Montana. The town of Maiden close by
(the county seat of Fergus county,,
whose name is suggestive of wit, beauty,
etc, is in fact safe retreat for bachel-
ors, since there is not an unmarried man
in the town. Sadie, whence these lines
are being penned, is a community of
forlorn bachelors, with not a female
within a radius of fifteen miles, except
ing the Crow squaws in the neighboring
Indian camp.