Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-15
rEmIyrxr POWDERS IN KANSAS.

The Tyrant Man Has to Hustle 60 Keep
Up With the Procession.
Chicago Tribune.
The young Kansas farmer goes out
into the fields at daylight, and by night
fall has cribbed $50 bushels of corn,
The young mans sister can play the
piano, do the homework, and in the
busiest times goes out with the men and
does so much work as to astonish her
friends. A pretty Dickinson county
girl, aged Is, drove self-binder over
1900 acres and took care of the four
horses hitched to the machine. During
the spring she helped to plant 1870 acres
of corn, did the homework for family
of seven, went to 10 dances, tried twice
to elope, 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 lepers.
A Brown county girl looked after her
fathers grape patch of 10 acres, picked
the apples on 1000 trees, and when her
male parent pocketed $4,000 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 county Another young woman
living in Irving township worked in the
harvest field as well as man, herded
cattle and sheep for several summers,
and this winter will teach school. She
has three younger sisters, who are fol-
lowing in her footsteps.
The bright daughter of "squaw"
man on the reservation wants white
husband-and she is worthy of one.
Her sister married an Indian, and her
father gave them a farm and 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 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 so 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 so years old
has farmed near Notawaka with con-
tinuous success. Her place is small, yet
she makes money and gives literally to
the needy. She never leaves her farm
except to attend the meetings of
woman's suffrage society.
A Hiawatha woman, who has hus-
band helpless from rheumatism, has
kept him and large family of children
by directing work on an S0-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 ncighbors.
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 decd of 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, 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 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
and teachers. They lead in the educa-
tional and prohibition movements.
They are making no noisy or threat
ening clamor for equal rights. They
are simply showing by what they do
that they are the equals of man, and
that the ballot in their hands would not
only be safe, but wisely used for the
development of state that is coming to
the front with greater strides than any
other in the union.