The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-15
FEMININE WONDERS IN KANSAS.
Achievements of the Fhir SIX on the Farm
-RIna fnr Mnmnn suffrage.

The young Kansas farmer goes out
into the fields ut daylight and by
ngntfull has cribbcd $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 docs so much work rs to astound
her best friends. A pretty Dickinson
County girl, aged Is, drove a solf-bind-
er over l. POO acres and took care Of the
four horses hitchcd to the machine.
During the spring she helped to plant
l2O acres of corn, did tho hOuSewOrk
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 lepcrs.
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 penny. She
believes in the Alliance principles, can
play~tennis, row a boat, or ride the
widest horse in the country.
Another young woman living in
Irving Township worked in harvest
field 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 footsteps.
The bright daughter of a "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 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.,
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 u 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 a hus-
hand 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 Sunday-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
and girls who have taken up claims in
the western part of the State and lived
on them until they got deed for the
! land. There are hundreds of women
! in the State who manage to keep men
] depending on them from going hungry;
! there are hundreds of women who can
do anything man can do, or has ever
| done, and there are hundreds of women
in Kansas who want equal rights with
men. The signs are that what they
| ask VIII Oe cOHCcucu Lucn. 4heN nave
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 and prohibition movement.
They are making no noisy or threat
ening clamor for equal rights. They
are simply showing by what they dc
that they are the equal of man aud
that the ballot in their hands would
not only be safe, but wisely used fol
the bettermcnt of the people and de
velopment of state that is coming tt
the front with greater strides than any
other in the Union