The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-12-17
THE KANSAS GIRL.
She Is Not tile Least Wonderful Product of
the Prairie state.

She Is Not tile Least Wonderful Product of
the Prairie state.
The young Kansas farmer goes out
into the fields at daylight, and by
nightfall has cribbed 1870 bushels OF
corn. The young mans sister can play
the piano, do the housework, 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 1900 acres and took care of tho
four horses hitched to the machine.
During the spring she helped to plant
1870 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 a
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 1000 trees, and when her
parent pocketed $1,000 from the sale OF
the fruit, did not ask for any of the
money--becausc she knew she wouldn't
get a penny. She believes in the ALI
ance principles, can play tennis, row
boat or ride the widest horse in the
county.
Another young woman living in Irving
tow nship worked in the harvest-field as
we'll as 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 q farm and curse.
He thinks the unmarried one is toe
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 fieetness Of
foot, can shoot with the best of Them
and would work her hands off for hel
parents sake.
A Lincoln County girl got her father
to give her a farm, and lives on it. look
ing after eighty acres without help
and last year cleared $1,000, beside!
buying clothes, machinery and stock
This year she has a girl friend for {
companion and hired man.
A woman, sixty years old, has farmet
near Notawaka with continuous success
Her place is yet small, yet she make
money and gives literally to the needy
She never leaves her farm except to at
tend The meetings Of i, Woman's Suffrage
Society.
A Hiawatha woman, who has hus
band helpless from rheumatism, ha
kept him and a large family Of children
by directing work on an eighty-acr
farm. She is & Jealous worker in churc
and Sunday school, and says She owe
no one cent. Her farm and building
are in better shape than those of he
more fortunate neighbors
There are hundreds Of bright wome
and girls who have taken up claims j
the western part of the State and live
on them until they got deed for tn
land. There are hundreds of women i
the State who manage to keep mon dc
pending on them from going hungr.
there arc hundreds of women who ca
do any thing man can do, has eve
done, or ever tried to do, and there az
hundreds of women in Kansas who wal
equal rights with mon, Ihe signs al
that what they ask will be conccde
them. They have taken charge of I'll
public schools and no State in The Unto
has better. They are members OF scho'
boards, county and city superintendent
and teachers. They lead in the educa
, tional movement Hiawatha lhas
Cor. Chicago Tribune.