The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-12-19

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> Tie young Kansas farmer goes Out
: into the aelds at daylight, ana bs
| nightfill has cribbed 150 BUSHELS OF
corn. The young mans sistef can play
! the piano, do tbs hOuseWork, and il
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, .ar6ve a selfbiBd-
CT over l. 200 acres, and took care Of
the four horses hitched TO the machine
Daring the spring she hslPed 10 plant
100 acres OF corn, dfd the EouseWork
for. a Family of seven, went to ten
Dances trisd twice toelOpe, taught the
most Interesting SASS ia the Sunday
school, aud now talks OF going to AZ
ficsf as 3 missionary, aud says Il shG
EOrd speaks. up loud eueagiI she viii
go among the lepefs.
4 Brown County girl looks after her
fathers grape patch of ten acres, pick
ed the apples on l 900 trees, and when
her parent pocksted SIS ,0OO from the
sale of the fruit, did not ask for any
of the money-becsuse she knew she
wouldn't get penny. She believes in
the alliance principles, can play tennis
row boat OF ride the widest horse in
the country
Another young wOman living ia Irv-
ing township, wofked in tie harvest
field as well as man, herded cattls
and sheep for several summers, and
this winter will teach school. She
has three young sisters who are fol-
lowing in her footsteps.
This bright daughter of Il "sqtfaw
manson the reseEvation wants a white
husband-and sic is worthy of one.
Her sister married an Indian, and her
father gave them farm and a curse.
He thinks the unmarried cne is TOO
good for AN Indian. She has taught
school, driven rs,ce-horses and won, has
never been beaten in a trade, equals |
any man in the country in heetness OF
foot, can shoot with the best Of them, |
and would work her hands Of for her |
parents sale.
A Lincoln County girl got her father /
to give her a farm, and lives on it.
looking after eighty acres without help |
y
buying machinery, clothing and stock.
This year she has girl friend for a
companion and hired man.
a woman, sixty years old, has farDi-
ed near Notawaka with continuous
success. Her place is yet small, yet
she makes money and gives liberaIly
to the needy. She never leaves her
farm except to attend the meetings of
a Woman's Suffrage Society.
A Hia awatha Fsoman, who has hus-
band helpless from rheumatism, has
kept him and large family o. children
by directing work Oh ga eighty acre
farm She is n zeElous worker in church
and Sunda7-school and says she owes
nOOne a cent. Her farm and buildings
are in better shape than those Of her
more fortunate nefghbors.
There are Hundreds of bright wOm-
Ell and girls who have aaksn up claims
in the western part of the state and
lived on them until they gos a deed
FOR the land. There are hun ireds OF
women in the state who manage to
keep men depending on them from GO
ing hungry; there are hundreds OF
women who can do any thing a man
cando, and there are hundreds of b
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
school and no State in the Union has
better. They are members OF school
boards, county and city suPerintendents
and teachers. They iead in the edu-
;ational Htat0atlsG hiGs.
Cor. Chicago Tribune \