The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-08
FEMININE WONDERS IN KANSAS.
The Tyrant Man Has to Hustle to
Keep Up with the Procession.

Keep Up with the Procession.
From the Chicago Tribune.
HIAwATHA, KAN, Oct. 20.-1he 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 county girl,
aged Is, drove self binder over ], 300 acres
and took care OF the four horses hitched to
the machine. During the spring she helped
oplant 1e0 acreg of corn, did the house
work for a family of seven, went to ten
dances, tried twice to elope, taught the
most interesting class in Sunday school, and
now talks of gong to Africa as mission
airy, and says il the Lord speaks up loud
enough she will go among the iepers.
A Brown county girl looked after her
fathers grape patch Of ten acres, picked
the apples on 1000 trees, and when her
male parent pockeOsd $4,000 from the sale
of the fruit did mot ask him for any of the
money-because she knew she wouldn't get
penny. She believes in alliance princi-
Piles, can play 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
summers, and this winter will teach school.
She has three young sisters who are follow
ing in her footsteps.
The bright daughter Of a "squawn man
on the reservation wants white husband
and she is worthy Of one. Her sister mar
ried an Indian, and her father gave them a
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 trade, equals any
man in the county in fieetness Of foot, can
shoot with the best or them, and would
work her hands of for her parents sake.
A Lincoln county gtrl got her father to
give her farm and lives on IL, looking
after eighty acres without help, and last
year cleared 81 600, besides buying clothes.
machinery and stock. This year she has a
girl friend for companion, and hired
man.
A woman 90 years old has farmed near
Notawake 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 meet
ipgs of a woman's suffrage society.
A Hiawatha woman, who has O husband
helpless from rheumatism, has kept him aud
large family of children by directing
work on an eighty-acre farm. She is
JEALOUS worker in church and Sunday
school, and says she owes no one q cent.
Her farm and buildings are in better shape
than those of her more fortunate neigh
bors.
There are hundreds Of bright women and
girls who have taken up claims in the west
ern part of the state and lived on them un-
til they got deed for the land. There are
hundreds OF women In the state who man
age to keep men depending on them from
going hungry; there are hundreds of women
who can do anything man can do, has
ever done, or ever cried 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 thsrn. They
have taken charge Of the public schools, and
no state in the union has better. They are
Of school boards, county and city
and teachers. They sead
in the educational and prohibition move
ments
They are making no noisy or threatening
cianlor for equal rights. They arc 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 development Of q state thar Is
coming 10 the front with greater strides
than any other in the union
Ali infections of the blood are rnuovad