Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-11-28
A SURPRISING YANKEE WOMAN.

Weighs 800 Pounds, Works a Big Farm
Herself, and is a Terror to Tramps.
''In Northern New England l recently
met a fat woman said New Yorker,
who ought to inspire all victims of adj
pose tissue. l was driving with a ma
tive when she came along the road.
She was positively enormous, and would
have looked unpleasantly big had it not
been for her pleasant, frank. face. She
nodded to my companion, who returned
the salutation with more Difference than
| had observed in his manner toward
anyone else. After we had passed her
he said that she was the wealthiest wcm-
an in the mountains.
"'You wouldn't think so to see the
way she works. he added, for she does
about as much as any two men around
here. She has the biggest and finest
it all herself. OF course she has some
one to help her in haying time, but she
does her own blowing and seeding and
can toss more hay than any man l ever
saw. Fat? Well, she is a pretty big
don't mind that, and it don't interfere
with her getting around either. You
just trying walking with her and see if'
you can keep up with her. l can't. l
bought some hay from her last week,
and when, l went to get it she told me
she would pack it in the wagon if /
would throw it up to her. Well, she
kept me working until l thought my
arms would break, and the way she
stamped down that hay was caution.
It was all | could do to get it out again,
walking now. Well that's what she
calls taking constitutional after her
work. She will cover ten miles easy.
'.'Mind you, she has not got to work,
and she is not 3 stngy, either Her sister is
Europe, to the seashore and everywhere.
She's away now. They are both of them
well educated and very liberal to the
poor. No one has to ask twice at that
house, but tramps have to be mighty po
other thing with this one found them
selves out in the road so quick they
didn't know what had struck them.
She says she works for the love of it,
and when she has to quit she will give
up living
'From inquiries that | made after
ward learned that this woman was n
lady in every sense of the word we'll
hammered, genial and good conversa-
tionalist. Her marvellous strength and
abundant animal spirits impelled her to
do hard work for the pleasure of it,
New York Sun.
Working for Loved Ones.
There is a mean man in one of the de-
partments. He came a year ago from
a Western state and has not friend in
Washington. He has no vices, his fell
low-clerks say that he is too mean. Dur.
ing the year since he came the man has
never been known to spend a cent be,
yond what was absolutely necessary, and
the same clothes have been worn dur.
ing the entire time. Declining all inyi-
tations and giving none, contributing as
little as possible when all have joined i'll
raising a fund, living no one knows
where or how, it is a standing joke that
he saves $1,000 out of his $1,000 salary.
I heard some of the clerks telling stories
of how he boarded his money and |
found that I knew him and if ever there
was a martyr he is one In Western
town there is family of four afflicted
people, q father and mother, who have
been invalids for years; q sister, who
by reason of an accident, is cripple,
a brother, a ne'er-do-weIl. Upon the
homestead is mortgage and no one to
share the burden with the young depart.
ment clerk. AS he goes to his cheerless
room at night and eats his scanty supper
his heart Is back in that Western town
with his loved ones. while his mind
dwels upon the future when the mort.
gage can be paid and then there will be
plenty to rent a little home in the sub.
urbs of Washington and the family be
reunited here, where perhaps skillfuf
physicians may relieve the suffering ones.
So he is content to be friendless. for,
If1cnuSIlID DI1HSS ODiISdtIOHS JlhI lie CdH
not MISUNDERSTANDING Star.
The Poor Maid,
The green servant girl, who makes
strange and not always laughable blum
ders, is not found exclusively in Ameri-
can households. The European journals
abound with incidents illustrating the
difficulties of adapting girls reared in the
country, or in the slums of cities, to the
domestic arrangements of better-to-do
people. ~
A French journal records that lady