Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1894-01-04
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Women and Fruit-John Browns Daugh-
ter Successful Fruit Raiser.


ter a Successful Fruit Raiser.
A 20 acre prune orchard id the young
state of Washington produced this year
40 tons Of fruit. The owner Of the or
chard sold the prunes for 6,000 The
owner in this case happened to be
man, but there is no reason why it
should not have been a woman. Fruit
culture is as well adapted to women as
to men, and the Independent incomes
to be made at it should be shared alike
by our sex. In the culture of small
fruits, berries, currants, ETC., women
can do easily all the work without as
sistance. In the matter of fruit that
grows on trees, too, they can succeed.
| well remember the good fun we girls
had when was child climbing trees
and picking cherries. That women can
conduct orange groves, vineyards and
orchards as well as men can is proved
by the scores of our sex that have estab-
lished themselves as fruitgrowers in
California and are now, many Of them,
wealthy, their incomes being secured
altogether through their own exertions.
Miss Sarah Brown, daughter of John
Brown of Ossawatomie, has a fine
fruit orchard at Saratoga, not far from
San Jose, Cal The orchard is planted
in peaches, olives and French prunes,
and while it was growing Miss Brown
supported herself by giving drawing
and art lessons in San Jose and Sarato-
ga. The lesson she teaches womankind
in pecuniary independence and practical
common sense is as valuable as her art
lessons.
Mrs. Ella Condie Lamb exhibited at
the Worlds fair a picture called the
Advent Angel, which has been great
ly praised, and an illustration Of it ap-
pears this month in The Century. It is
indeed a glorious picture, and | am
proud that woman made it. There
has been much discussion about the sex
of angels, and some disgruntled old hunk
ers have declared that all angels We're
masculine. Evidently Mrs. Lamb does
not believe this, for her beautiful angel
is more woman than man. Olive Schrein-
er, in dreams, makes her highest
most powerful spirits sexless But,
however that may be. it is certain to
my mind that no real angel ever had
wings. Think of an angel with goose
quillsl The ancient Greeks knew better
Their gods and goddesses moved with
gliding motion, neither flying nor walk
ing. Wings are special emblem of
inward uplifting power, but our mate
rialistic age takes the word literally. |
am sorry to see that Mrs. Lamb has put
feathers upon her splendid angel.
One gets mortally tired of clinging
sweetness. 1t is like eating candy all
the time.
There are good husbands, but they are
not the kind of men girls read about in
novels.
At the New York horse show an ex-
hibitor told me an interesting story, re-
called to him by some of the fine Ken
lucky animals there In the blue grass
region a number of years ago horse
breeder died, leaving his wife with two
thoroughbred trotting mares as her
only earthly possession. She might have
sold the animals for some hundreds of
dollars, spent the money and lived on
the charity of her relatives or married
for support. But mol This fine Ken
lucky woman resolved to become rails
er of horses for herself She knew al
ready considerable about the business,
and her gallant neighbors of the other
sex helped her to learn the rest. She
made a distinguished success of horse
breeding and is now very well off. Four
trotting colts, the progeny Of the two
animals left by her husband alone,
brought her not quite $40, 600 from their
sale.
! A woman remarked the other day, l
admire men as a WORK Of art, but do
not fall in love with them
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER