The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-23
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AN ACCOMPLISHED WOMAN.
Her Pra ises Sung by the Man from Pos-
sum Ridge.


Her Pra ises Sung by the Man from Pos
sum Ridge.
The other day group of men at g
corner grocery were discussing the ac-
complishmentS of women. each one lay
ing particular stress on those of his
wife. An old chap from Possum Ridge
was present, and after listening quiet
5y to the CONVERSATION for some little
time he Strengthened up, spit about a
gill of amber on thesstove, and said:
''You fellerss seem To hevta sort o. no.
Zion that your women air right smart
pertaters when 1T domestic 'complish-
snents, an it amt my plaH,e to say they
aint But I want to tell you right
now that I've got a Old oman up at
home who amt 40, slOuch in that thar
respect, and wheniit comes right down
10 rale, straigSlt-ont, everyday useful
accomplishments, low she kin lay it all
over any of your women with one hand
tied behind her"
"She's away up, then, is she?" the
grocer asked.
"Td say So She's right ,slap in the
Cop o. the tree"
"What are her accomplishments"
''Mouty nigh ver'thing, I recken.
She jest got piles of 'em."
''Is she great in music?"
"Wal, not SO great in that'a in some
other things. Still she kin Stop along
erter chune in meetin' right fair, and
she kin blow a right smart O. noise out
10 mouth organ, an the way she kin
lay it onto jewsharp haint to be
sneezed at"
Glow Is she IN art-pain ting, for in
stance?"
''She's purity middlin' strong thar,
stranger. 1 reckon that's enc Of her
best holts"
/ 'She has done something that way,
then?"
'fShc shercly has She painted the
meetin' house last spring, an then
painted up two or three old wagons for
the blacksmith, an everybody said they
was well done. Yes, sir; sloppin' paint
is one O. her strong p'ints, guess"
I 'Her strongest point, no doubt" the
grocer remarked with a smile.
'.No, don't think it's her strongest
pint, stranger. She's right up to the
flop in that, but she's clean out O. sight
an some other things"
''What, Tor instance"
''Wal, now, in the matter o. rail split
hin. say. ! doubt if theirs "a woman in
this tewn that kin tech my wife in that
partic'lar."
,''She's accomplished in that, is she?'
''I kinder low she is. She's sixty-year-
odd now, but she Kin take her ak an
maul an go out in the woods an split
out two hundred rails any day an not
lhalf try Kin your woman do that?'
''No, she can not"
81 lowed she couldn't Wit you talk
Fbout accomplishments. My old oman
chopped the timber and mauled the
rails to fence my farm, an not only
that, but she made the fence, cleared
PUP twenty acres o new ground, plowed
It, an planted an tended the crop.
Don't that pear to you sorter like as if
she was slightly 'complished, hey?"
sit certainly does"
''That's the way ! figger it. But,
shucks, that amt all she's good fer, by
q long sight"
''She has other accomplishments, has
sbe?''
''Wal, think So She kin hold her
own with any man on Postum Ridge
when it comes to cradlin' wheat or
lmowin' meader, somethin' / don't be-
Qieve q woman in this town kin do"
81 presume not"
t'Then my ole oman don't stop thar.
stranger. She kin run threshin' ma
chine or n saw-min, kin weave a rag
cyarpet or break a wild mewl, kin spank
a youngun or pull q stump, kin bile
soap or shoe a boss, in fact, kin do about
anything you kin mention. She not
only kin do it, stranger, but she has
done it. asides raisin' family O sixteen
children. Talk bout the accomplishments
20 women! Humph, you don't know
what they air! My old 'oman's got 'em,
an got them as is with tall1in' bout.
What's little music an SIGH compared
with maxim rails an tendin' a crop an
sich ike?"-Chicago Tribune.