The Forrest City times., 1892-03-11
Achievments 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 eribbed l5O bushels of corn. The young mans sister can play the piano. do the housework. and in busiest times goes out with the men and does so much work as to astouud her best friends. A pretty Dickinson County girl. aged lj. drove a seif-bind- CT over POO acres and took care of the four horses hitched to the machine. During the spring she helped to plant l20 acres of corn. did the homework for family of seven. went 10 ten dances tried twice to elepe. 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 amoug 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 $5. 0OO 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 man, Berded cattle aud 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 a ''squaw' man on the reservation wants white husband-and she is worthy of one. Her sister married au Indian. and hei father gave them a farm and curse. He thinks the unmarried one is tcc 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. eau shoot with the best of them, and would work her hands of for heI parents sake.
 A Lineoln Couaty girl got her father to give her farm and lives on it. looking after eighty acres without help and last year cleared Sl,OOO, besides buying clothes. machinery. and sock. This year she has girl friend for a companion and hired man.
 4 woman. GO years old. has farmed near Notawaka with continuous sue cess. Her place is small yet she makes money and gives liberally to the needy She never leaves her farm except to at tend the meetings of woman'i suffrage society.
 rh.a band helpless from rheumatism ha kept him and large family of child ren by directing work on an eighty acre farm. She is a jealous worker in church and Sunday y-sc.:no., and say she owes no one a cent. Her farm an6 buildings are in better shape thai those of her more fortunate neighbors
 There are hundreds of bright womes and girls who have taken up claims II the western part of the State and liye' on them until they got deed for th land. There are hundreds of womeI in the State who manage to keep mel depending on them from going hungry there are hundreds of women who cal do anything a man can do, or has eve done. and there are hundreds of womel in Kansas who want equal rights wit men. The signs are that what the ask will be conceded them. They hay taken charge of the public schools and no State in the Union has better They are members of school boards county and city Superintendents' am 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 q that they are the equal Of man am that the ballot in their hands woul not only be safe. but wisely used fo the betterment of the people and d' velopment of a state that is coming | the front with greater strides than an
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