The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-01-16
FEMININE WONDERS IN KANSAS.
Aohievments OF the Fair Sex on the Farm
Ripe FOR woman suffrage.

The young Kansas farmer goes out
into the fields at daylight and by
nightfall has cribbed $50 bushels of
corn. The Young mans sister can
play the piano. do the homework. and
Ia busiest times goes out with the men
and does so much work as 20 astound
her best friends. A pretty Dickinson
County girl. aged 10. drove self-bind-
er over l. 200 acres aud took care of the
four horses hitched to the machine
During the spring she helped TO plant
l2O acres of corn. did the housework
for a 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 10 Africa
rs 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 ten acres,
picked the apples on 1000 trees, and
when her male parent pocketed IS, 900
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 n boat. or ride the
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Another young woman living In
Irving Township worked in harvest
field as well as a man. her,led cattle
and sheep for several summers. aud
this winter will teach school, She has
three Young sisters. who are following
IN her footsteps.
The bright daughter of '.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 aud a curse
He thinks the unmarried one is too
good for an Indian. She has taught
school, driven raee-horSes aud won. has
never been beaten Ia trade. equals any
man in the country in ileetness OF foot.
can shoot with the best of them, aud
would work her hands off for her
parents sake.
A Lincoln County girl got her father
to give her farm and lives on 1t,
looking after eighty acres without help.
and last year cleared 81, 900. 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 a 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 aud Sunday-sehool, and saws
she owes no cne cent. Her farm aud
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 aud lived
on them until they got a 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 a 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 will be conceded them. They have
taken charge of the public schools,
aud no State in the Union has better.
They are members of school boards.
county and city Superintendents, and
teachers. They lead in the educa-
tional and prohibition movement
They are making no noisy or threat
ening elamor for equal rights They
are simply showing by what they do
that they are the equal of man aud
that the ballot in their hands would
not only be safe, but wisely used for
the bettermcnt of the people and de-
velopment of state that is coming to
the front with greater strides than any
other in the Union.