Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-12-11
THE KANSAS GIRL.
She Il Not the Least Wonderful Product
tie Prairie state.

She Il Not the Least Wonderful Product 81
tie Prairie state.
The young Kansas farmer goes out
into the fields at daylight and by
nightfal has cribbed $50 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 sstound her
best friends. A pretty Dickinson Coun-
ty girl, aged fifteen, drove self-binder
over 1900 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
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 l, 600 trees, and when her
parent pocketed IS. 900 from The sale Of
the fruit did not ask for any Of the
money-because she knew she wouldn't
get penny. She believes in the ALI
snce principles. can play tennis, row .
boat or ride the widest horse in the
:ounty.
Another young woman living in Irving
township worked in the harvest-feld as
well as q 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 q 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 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 fleetness 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 help,
and last year cleared $1,000, besides
buying clothes, machinery and stock.
This year she has girl friend for a
companion 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 Woman's Suffrage
Society.
A Hiawatha woman, who has hus-
band helpless from rheumatism, has
kept him and large family of children
by directing work on an eighty-acre
farm. She is a jealous worker in church
and SundaY-school, and says she owes
no one a cent. Her farm and buildings
are in better shape than those of her
more fortunate 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 for the
land. There are hundreds of women in
the State who manage to keep men de-
pending Oh them from going hungry;
there are hundreds of women who can
do any thing a 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
that what they ask will be conceded
them. They have taken charge of the
public schools and no State in the Union
has better. They are members of school
boards, county and city superintendent
and teachers. They lead in the educa-
tional movement (Kas.)
Cor. Chicago Tribune.