Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-12-19
THE KANSAS oiaL
she 1s Not the Least wonderful Product q
the Prairie state,

She 1s Not the Least wonderful Product q,
| the Prairie state.
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 astound her
best friends. A pretty Dickinson Coun.
ty girl, aged fifteen, 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 housework for
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 q
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 |, 600 trees, and when her
parent pocketed IS. 900 from the sale of
the fruit, did not ask for any of tho
money-because she knew she wouldn't
get penny. She believes in the ALI.
ance principles, can play tennis, row u
boat or ride the widest horse in the
county.
another young woman living in Irving
township worked in the harvest-field as
well as man, herded cattle and sheen
TOT several summers, and this winter
wall teach school. She has three young
sisters who are following in her foot
steps.
The bright daughter of q 'souaw'
man on the reservation wants q white
husband-and she is worthy of one.
her sister married an Indian, and her
1ather gave them a farm and q curse.
he thinks the unmarried one is too
good for an Indian. She has taught
school. driven race-horses and won, has
never been beaten in a trade, EQUALS
any man in the country in feetness of
foot, can shoot with the best of them.
and would work her hands of for her
parents sake.
A Lincoln County girl got her father
to give her farm, and lives on it, look
ing after eighty acres without helm.
and last year cleared 81, O0O besides |
buying clothes, machinery and stock. |
This year she has a girl friend for a |
and hired man.
A woman, sixty years old, has farmed |
near Notawaka with continuous success. |
Her place is yet small, yet she makes
money and gives literally to the needy. |
She never leaves her farm except to at |
tend the meetings of a Woman's Suffrage
Society.
Hiawatha woman, who has q hus-
band helpless from rheumatism, has
Kept him and large family of children
BY directing work on an eighty-acre
farm. She is Jealous worker in church
ind SundaY-school, and says she owes
no one cent Her farm and buildings
ire in better shape than those of her
more fortunate neighbors
There are hundreds of bright women
Ind girls who have taken up claims in
he western part of the State and lived
IN them until they got a deed for the
and. There are hundreds of women in
he State who manage to keep men de-
lending on them from going hungry:
here are hundreds of women who can
% any thing man can do, has ever
one. or ever tried to do, and there are
hundreds of women in Kansas who want
quail rights with men. The signs are
hat what they ask will be conceded
hem. They have taken charge of the
ublic schools and no State in the Union
as better. They are members of school
cards county and city superintendent
nd teachers. They lead in the educa-
lonal movement-Hiawath (Kas.)
or. Chicago Tribune.