The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-18
Is THE SOUTH n WoMAN'S HEAVEN
a Louisiana Lecturess Thinks So and Give,
Interesting Reasons

a Louisiana Lectures Thinks So and Gives
Interesting Reasons
The title Of lecture by Mrs. Field OF New
Orleans recently was. Come South. Young
Woman" She said she was q writer on the
only great daily In the world that 10 owned By
Q woman. referring to the Picauine and It's
chief owner. Mrs. E J. Nicholson. or Louis
lana. she said that II 10 waiting to be cut up
into small holdings by young Corydons and
Phyllises. who will grow cotton for the central
factories. have market gardens. orchards.
dairy farms. and poultry yards. and who will also
grow flowers and make honey. She spoke OF
Louisiana as already possessing O woman
steamboat Captain-Capt Mary Miller-and as
"a State that builds q monument to the mem
DRY or woman who never had on . kid glove
in all her life. who could not write her name.
who was only great In her goodness; that was
Margaret Haughey. the baker woman whose
loavss built asylums and yet feed thousands of
hungry ones"
Mrs Field said that she had seen kitchen
garden whose products eQualled any shown
ut the Chicago Fair. and yet they were raised
by two young girls. Near By. In the same
parish OF Cameron. q young Iowa girl squat
ter. with her sixteen year old brother. took up
Government claim OF leo acres and went to
planting rice. the first crop OF which paid her
81. 200. She lives In q thrse-room cottage. and
has few fruit trees. plenty Of good fences
aud sea OF waving rice blades. Her nearest
neIghber is another girl farmer, who also set
orchard that Il already giving her comforta-
Bile living, The lscturess also told story OF .
woman who 10 dressmakinR In Chicago. and
who bought twenty acres OF LouisianA land
out OF her savings and sent her mother and
They have been SO siui that she IS about ut
70 Join them and add small fruits and vegeta:
bles to tho crops on her land being assured OF
hAa0mfnU indaD0ndent thaF6bV.
trail In the river bottom land Of Mississippi and
aged Dy women most OF them newcomers"
They manage the farms and pack the berries
old plantation near New Orleans is an old wom-
an who grows camellias and has been to Europe
R.S river eSuRt1g there is an si1
who runs her iatheTs COTTON GIN and gins
800 bales yeaT She handles that :, sport mort:
H. FOOLS over It, scolds 1t, Tides II up. and when
1t Is working as good as gold. she sits beside Il
Katherine /. Minor Of tho Board OF Lady"
Managers OF tho Columbian Exposition. Is a
Louisiana planter. and. according to this lee
turess. 10 every parrish are women farmers.
:9fE EsaTs medal s5d ,hs S
women Of twenty different Trades and profess
sions followed by the working women Of New
Orleans. Women are n power in the South"
she saYs-though that is not new idea-"of
fearful force when they, organize. | claim 1t
Louisiana State Lottery. When the Women an
ers practically admitted that they had got their
Waterloo" AS for the question whether women
are sale in tho South. she answers boldly
that every man is her guard OF honor" Ae-
eompanied only by twelve yeA'-old lad she
says she travelled ! 500 miles IN private We
hlcle In Louisiana safe aud unhArmed. She
SAYS that every mans hat is on to the working
ton her virtues. her brains and her blood de-
mAnd. Come South. young woman" she
says. and you will flower there. frAGraneing
be free and there woman may be as she
wills-An ant in the morning bee at noon.
and butterfly at night"