The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-16
FEMININE WONDERS IN KANSAS

Special in Chicago Tribune.
The Young Kansas farmer goes out into
the fields at daylight, and by nightfall
has cribbed $50 bushels of corn. The
young mans sister can play the piano,
do the homework, and in busiest times
goes out with the men and does so much
work as to astonish her best friends.
! A pretty Dickinson county girl, aged
10, drove self-binder over 1000 acres
and took care of the four horses hitched
to the machine. During the spring she
| helped to plant 100 acres of corn, did the
homework for a family of seven. went
| to ten dances, tried twice to elope, taught
the most interesting class in the Sunday
school, and now talks of going to Africa
as missionary, and says if the Lord
speaks up loud enough she will go among
! the lepers.
A Brown county girl looked after her
| fathers grape patch of ten acres, picked
| the apples on 900 trees, and when her
male parent pocketed $1,000 from the
sale of the fruit did not ask for any of
the money-because she knew she would
not get a penny. She believes in the
Alliane principles, can play lawn tennis,
row boat, or ride the widest horse in
the county.
Another young woman living in Irving
township worked in the harvest field as
well as a man, herded cattle and sheep
for several summers, and this winter
will teach school. She has three young
sisters who are following in her foot
steps.
The bright daughter of "squaw"
man on the reservation wants a white
husband-and she is worthy of one.
Her sister married an Indian, and her
father gave them farm and a curse.
He thinks the unmarried one too good
for an Indian. She has taught school,
driven race horses and won, and has
never been beaten in a trade, equals any
man in the country in feetness of foot,
and can shoot with the best of them, and
would work her hands off for her par
ents' sake.
A Lincoln county girl got her father to
give her farm and lives on it, looking
after eighty acres without help, and last
year cleared $1,000, besides buying
clothes, machinery and stock. This
year she has a girl friend for compan-
ion and hired man.
\ woman 60 years old has farmed near
Netawaka with continuous success. Her
place is small, yet she makes money and
gives literally to the needy. She never
leaves her farm except to attend the
meetings of a woman's suffrage society.
A Hiawatha woman, who has bus
band helpless from rheumatism, has
kept him and large familyiof children by
directing work on an SO-acre farm. She
Is a jealous worker In church and Sun
day school, and says she owes no one a
cent. Her farm and buildings are in
better shape than those of her more for
tunate neighbors.
There are hundreds of bright women
and girls who have taken up claims in
the western part of the state and lived
on them until they got a deed TO the
land. There are hundreds of women in
the state who manage to keep men de-
pending on them from going
hungry; there are hundreds Of
women who can do anything
man can do. has ever done. or ever tried
to DO, and there are hundreds of women
in Kansas who want equal rights with
men. The signs are, what they ask will
be conceded them. They have taken
charge Of the public schools, and no
state in the union has better. They ara
members Of school boards, county and
city superintendent and teachers. They
lead in the educational and prohibition
movements.
They are making no noisy or threat
ening clamor for equal rights They are
simply showing by what they do that
they are the equal Of man, and that the
ballot in their hands would not only be
safe. but wisely used for the develop
ment Of a state that Is coming to the
front with greater strides than any other
IN the union.