The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-15
FEMININE WONDERS IN KANSAS.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF the Fair Sex ON the Farm
Ripe for Woman Suffrage.

The young Kansas farmer goes out
into the fields ut 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 astounu
her best friends. A pretty Dickinson
County girl, aged Is, drove solf-bind-
err over l, 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 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 a missionary, and says If the Lord
speaks up loud enough she will 60
among tho lepers.
A Brown County girl looked after her
fathers grape patch of ten acres,
picked the apples on 1000 trees, and
when her male parent pocketed s., 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 Alliance principles, can
play~tennis, row boat, or ride the
widest horse in the country.
Another young woman living in
Irving Township worked in harvest
field as we'll as a man, herded cattle
and sheep for several summers, and
this winter will teach school. She has
three Young sisters, who are following
in her footsteps.
The bright daughter of q "squaw"
man on the reservation wants 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 trade, equals any
man in the.country in fleetness 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 a farm and lives on it,
looking 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, 60 years old, has farmed
near Notawaka with continuous sue
cess. Her place is 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 a large family of child
rem by directing work on an eighty
acre farm. She is a Jealous worker
! in church and Suuday-school, and says
she owes no one cent. Her farm and
buildings are in better shape than
| those Of her more fortunate neighbors
There are hundreds of bright women
aud girls who have taken up claims in
the western part of the State and liveC
on them until they got a deed for the
land. There are hundreds of womer
in the State who manage to keep mer
depending on them from going hungry
there are hundreds of women who cal
do anything man can do, or has evel
done. and there are hundreds of womer
in Kansas who want equal rights will
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 anc
teachers. They lead in the educa
tional and prohibition movement.
They are making no noisy or threat
ening clamor for equal rights. The!
are simply showing by what they d.
that they are the equal of man anc
that the ballot in their hands woulC
not only be safe, but wisely used TO
the betterment of the people and de
velopment of state that is coming t.
the front with greater strides than an,
other in the Union