Iron County register., 1890-12-04
THE KANSAS GIRL.
She Is Not the Least Wonderful Product OF
the Prairie State.

She Is Not the Least Wonderful Product OF
the Prairie State.
The young Kansas farmer goes out
into the fields at daylight and by
nigh tfall 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 astound her
best friends. A pretty Dickinson Coun-
ty girl, aged fifteen. drove a self-binder
over 200 acres and took care of the
four horses hitched to the machine.
During the spring she helped to plant
120 acres OF corn, did the housework for
family of seven, went to ten dances,
tried twice to cloPe, 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
iepers.
a Brown County girl looked after he1
fathers grape patch Of ten acres, picked
the apples on 1,00O trees, and when her
parent poclzcted ;:5, 600 from the sale of
the fruit, did not ask for any Of the
money-becauSe she knew she wouldn't
get a penny. She believes in the Alli-
ance principles, can play tennis, row
boat or ride the widest horse in the
county.
Anothe r young woman living in Irving
township worked in the harvest-feid 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 a ''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 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 tleetness of
foot, can shoot with the best of them,
and would work her hands off 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 81, 900. besides
buying clothes, machinery and stock.
This year she has q girl friend for
companion and hired man.
\ woman, sixty years old. has farmed
near Notawaza 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 q Woman's Suffrage
Society.
A Hiawatha woman, who has a 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 N church
and Sunday-school, and says she owes
no one cent. Her farm and buildings
are in better shape than those CT her
more fortunate ncighbOrs.
There are hundreds of bright women
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 OF 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
tncm. 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 superintendents
anI teachers. They lead in the educa-
tional movement-EIiawath (Kas.)
Cor. Chicago Tribune.