The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-10

for Riding, and Has Invented q
Substitute for the Divided Skirt.
From the New York sun.
Pomona, Cal, May Is. The women in
California, who occupy places in business
and the fields, monopolized everywhere
else by man, have become notable. In
san Diego county there are several young
women from New England who have be-
come among the best managers of Grain
ranches we have in the state: in the
Pomona valley two women are success
fully running stock farms in Riverside
there are seven women orange growers,
and at San Pedro the most prosperous
manager of the fishing boats and the
catches of fish is a handsome brunette of
q years.
But Monterey county boasts of a young
woman who can fill the place of vaquero
as well as any young man who ever rode
in a saddle. She is but % years old, and
has made a fortune in the cattle and
horse business.
Her name is Margaret Rogers. and she
is as popular, artistic and talented as she
is businesslike and euterprising. She
rounds up the cattle on her fathers and
her own ranches. personally sees to the
branding. marks the calves, separates the
mavericks, corrals the colts and sheep
and is able to pillow, sow, and run a har-
vesting machine, yet she re, oices that she
is not an Amazon. In the parlor at her
fathers great old-faShioned ranch house
she is delie htful hostess. She PLAYS the
piano we'll, is neat at fancy work. and has
a well-selected library of several hundred
books. A medal that she won in a ladies
seminary at Oakland, for proficiency in
Latin and English literature hangs upon
the library wall.
Miss Rogers makes all the plows for
ranch work on her own and her fathers
properties she mas the markets for grain
beef and pork at her fingers ends, and
makes all the sales and contracts on the
place. Last season she went to Portland
Ore. to buy several com biuation harvest
ers for ranch use, at an expense of 81. 800,
because she did not find the machines she
wanted in California
The Rogers home is near King City.
Monterey county, about l50 miles south
of san Francisco. and 300 miles north Of
Los Angeles. Robert l. Rogers, the father
OF Miss Margaret. came to Monterey
county from England for his health in
1876. He was then nearly dead with con
sumption, but he enjoyed comparative
health for twelve years. Mr.. Rogers en-
no railroad near. and the country was one
OF magnificent distances" for horseback
or wagon travel. Fences were unknown
and the nearest towns were Salinas and
CastrOville.
Mr.. Rogers had an aversion to riding,
but his second daughter took to horses
as a duck to water, and in the course Of
three or four years she was intrusted
with nearly all the herding the little
farm needed.
The little girl protested against the
side saddle from the first, and for thir-
teen years past has rarely used one.
Divided skirts were unheard of, but her
own devices evolved garment of a pat
tern which she uses to this day. 10 the
masculine eye it is but an ordinary street
skirt, scarcely as long as walking length,
tight fitting in the front breadths, but
possessing innumerable straight cores in
the back. The material is of some soft
stun that easily Grapes itself, and an un-
usual quantity is employed to secure the
requisite fullness in the back is neces-
sary, and when this is attained the result
IS surprising. Mounted astride on Il
heavy yaquerOs saddle, Miss Rogers in
yention drapes itself as smoothly as pair
of riding trousers. and falls even lower
than when she is on her feet.
-Four or five miles from the journeys
end the writer overlook a sweet faced lit
tie girl gal4oping bravely along the road,
with lunch basket ami book-bag slung to
the mans saddle she was riding astride.
That's Miss Maggies sister" ex-
planned our guide. "She is growing up
Just like the other one-a great hand for
horses"
Half an hour later and the interviewer
was face to face with Miss Mar aret, who
was engaged with her sister Evelyn in
marking Corral full of lambs that had
escaped the butcher. Two underbits in
the right ear of the sheep and cattle was
the designating mark of the sisters, who
are partners in goodly number of sheep,
cattle and horses Independent of their
iather's herds
They were entirely unaided in the
work, which was performed so cleverly
anu gently, and was acl ompanied by so
lluch soothing that 1t seemed almost de-
Sfdole to be a lamb on the Rogers ranch
Miss Evelyn Rogers strong arms. bare TO
the elbows, seemed little taxed as she
caught the wcolly little animals, deity
tnrew them on one side. and res trained
lhelr struggles while Miss Margaret's
h5eh knife clipped out the bits OF each
iooe requisite to make the selected idep-
uhcation mark.
few kindly pats on the head and a
soothing word or two were usually su1i-
Gent recompense for the pain, for the
Iambkins toddled back to the old ewes
with scarcely bleat
'Ot course" she said, when she was at
IelSure to talk, there are not many ladies
VINO chase cattle, but those who do will
Hot hesitate 10 say that riding through
brush, up and down hill, making quick
lulns or crossing streams ona size saddle
IS neither safe, easy, nor comfortable. and
never saw horse that mad been ridden
Any length of time with a side saddle but
nau sore back. | have ridden horses
orly niles or more day, day in and day
uu', and never made one sore yet know
yaaJ my way is the best for comfort and
health OF both myself and beast. and / am
proud that / have the courage of my con
Iclons. Even in this quiet, out-of the
way part of the world, where | have been
i!ulng astride for twelve or thirteen years,
lE appearance is sufficient to provoke
eminent but if few stout-hearted
american girls would face a little ridicule
.Ie sex would soon be freed from custom
vudJ Is not only uncomfortable, but inju-
Nous TO roth horse and rider
break all my own horses she re-
%,Iued' on returning to the parlor, land
gue lou now have in training for the
harness.
Christine is in hand Just now, and it
% aQout her time for n lesson. Would
n 'ou IKE 10 see something of my method ?"
'-IsS Rogers led the way to the barn.