Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-11-26
PURELY FEMININE.
SOME THINGS THAT ARB SURE TO PLEASE
TIE LADIES'
Pluck Of a Pennsylvania Girl Who Was Left
Alone on a Kansas Farm-Sunday Living.
jus! Little Prsties-Hints on Nsedlswork.
Little Things For Little Ones.

There is one woman in Dickinson u
ty, Kans.. who has demonstrated her
ability to manage a farm, and she has
so completely outstripped her male
neighbors in raising wheat, corn n
cattle as to make them envious OF her
wonderful success.
This woman is Miss Mary Stone, the
daughter OF a former we'll to do farmer
vino came out to Kansas in 1870 from
Western Pennsylvania. Captain Stones
wife died in the keystone State two
years prior to his change OF residence,
and Mary was the only child. At that
time Central Kansas marked the west
ern limit OF the pioneer settlement, but
the future was bright and Captain Stone
believed it to be the coming Eidoraoo.
In company with his only child, a
young lady, he went to Abilene and
commenced a search for q farm and
stock ranch. Soon he found his ideal
spot on the fertile bottom lands skirt
ing the Smoky Hill river. He pur-
chased from a discouraged Buckeye
a~dventurer 160 acres Of splendid farm
land, and from a Spectator another
quarter section adjoining. Within a
few years the Pennsylvania was pros
pering. His crops were the best and
his stock the sleekest OF any OF the
farmers in that region.
Time wore on, and Captain Stone by
his industry and energy had amassed a
competency. In 1856, in the midst of
his success, he fell q victim to typhoid
fever, and after a lingering illness OF
nearly two months succumbed to the
dread disease and was laid to rest in
the ~netghboring cemetery. His daugh-
ter Mary, then thirtY-two years old, a
woman of rare business ability and
courage, was left all alone with the
estate, with no relatives to aid her in
CARRYING on the great farm which had
been so successfully managed by her
father.
The people of that region expected
her to give up, sell the land and stock,
and spend the rest Of her life in ease
and comfort. But not so. Mary Stone
announced that she would continue
business at the old stand, and she did.
She is there to-day in charge OF one OF
the best ranches in Kansas, and Is able
to crack her whip over the finest span
of black roadsters in Dickinson county.
The career of this woman Is remark
able. She gathered her energies when
her father died and proceeded TO com
plete the work he had laid out. She
divorced herself from the homework
and went to the field and took charge
of the farm business. The farm and
ranch require the s'rv ce of a half
dozen men, and these he bosses with
a firmness which would astonish the old
est inhabitant. She is in the field all
day or on the ranch directing the work.
She cares nothing for men except to
make them work, and it is said that
she never knew what it was to love or
be loved.
Several ambitious stockmen have at
tempted to pay her attention, but in
each case they have been repulsed. She
does not believe In the new dress re-
form, but she comes near putting it into
practical use. During the greater part
of the year she wears No. Z boots, while
her shin, s meet the tops just below the
knee. She finds a mans felt hat the
most s~erviceable, and and about four
times a year allows the village barber
to single her hair.