The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1893-11-09
A DAISY COLONY.
The Female Boomers Tn the Cherokee
| Strip.

The Female Boomers TN the Cherokee
strip.
From the Baltimore Sun
The Daisy Community is the pleas
ant name of d colony of female
boomers who made their way to-
gether into the Cherokee Strip when
it was thrown open to settlement
and secured about $50 acres of land.
Their leader is Miss Annette Daisy,
who is described as a blue grass |
Kentucky girl, and her followers are |
all spinsters or widows. tits report
ed that their project was to esta blish |
a little Eden free from man and other |
reptiles, and to demonstrate to the |
world how we'll woman can get along
without masculine aid. To do this
it was thought necessary TIC acquire
land enough to enable them to keep
the male sex at arm s length, as it
were, but unfortunately the plan was
not entirely successful, and hand
some young bachelor located on
quarter section close to these man
hating maidens and grim widows. 1t
is said they have been endeavoring
to get him to move by fabulous
offers for his land, but he firmly de-
clines all propositions to leave so
pleasant a neighborhoOd, and 1T is
feared by the elder spinsters and the
more inconsolable of the widows
that he will introduce a sort of
Adams apple of discord and disaster
into the new colony. Signs of weak
ness and treachery to the cause have
already been detected on the part of
some of the younger sisters, and the
sternest repressive measures have
failed to check the demon alizatlOn.
, To prevent desertion on the part OF
!. her own forces and to stop the adj
, vance of the enemy General Annette
Daisy had a mammoth fence con
: structed, which she fondly hoped
. could neither be undermined MOI
= scaled. But no Chinese wall could
+ ever keep Cupid out of any place int
= which he wished to get, and Genera
q Duisy's breastworks have proved o
= little avail against the attacks OF tht
n handsome young boomer. At las'
= accounts he had been joined by {
= dozen other good-looking young
J, bachelors, who were laying sucf
vigorous siege to the female colon
= that at least half OF its defenders hat
: been MORALLY wounded. Some en-
g vious female residents of the Chero
% kee Strip, who do not belong to tn
7 Daisy Community, do not hesitat
- to say that this state OF things
" precisely what the colonists desired
'. and that they have simply bee
h stimulating male pursuit by a
4 assumption of excessive coyness
IN But these are, of course, the sneers {
r. disappointed rivals. Daisies al
u modest flowers. and would niue
~ rather bloom alone Probably neal
ly ALL the unmarried ladies in ever
community, if their own preference
wer consulted, would form Dais
III retreats, where man would ceas
from troubling them with offers {
a matrimony and they could EMO
ch undisturbed the society of their ow
is sex. That they do not yield to tn
CHI inclination is another proof of I'll
'ss noble and self sacrificing nature
es woman. Although she might ri
pn away from man and leave him in Il
de- lurch, she nearly always refuses
iii | do SO, and even When she does clol
G, | all by herself she rarely goes very ia
to generally permitting him to take
an a quarter section somewhere In
es, neighborhood, and magnanimous
on consenting in the end to let him sha
NE NE her retreat.