The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-11-11
4 cattle raising, and gradually made herself

Of cattle raising. and gradually made herself
familiar with every detail Of IL. She had tho
advice OF her benefactor,, and succeeded "
brand 800 calves and add 40 cows to her herd
They are marked TO this day with. q key, be-.
f Ss4 s,, some 4 Pal per sor friends T%nm once 1Ss f fsld her her t b,
that a key as her brand would be an appro-
herds are now known as the Door Key herd.
to the people Of Mexico and Texas, who have
no idea OF what the Significance, OF the emblem
ing after her herds for four years. and left her
compelled to rely on her own Judgment us
death came at a critical time IN her Affairs.
the cattle BOOM For a long time cattle
had been Of 30 little value that COWS sold for
away and calves We're not branded At the
frst advance In prices the ranchers were eager
70 sell. but because they had no confidence
Miss Farmer borrowed money wherever she
could and bought. because she believed that
Prices Price Az were % reTsin hixh for s9me time line,
sSid jSs, SsiSfs ,ks Sociine i prises cams
with every turn of her capital. She was able
were in distress after. their fathers death.
detail of the business comes to-day under her
own eye. she sent to her native. Ohio for the
S'% nsihys Ssns II ws Mh Eho s Are hsr ,b s'T rsSi air IN ,a"
Even the practical phases of the. work come
under, her eve. for she rides well, and often
attends the round-lp and superintends the
brandlng and division Of the herds
-Jokers, who talk about girls in the summer
instead Of boys. said one Of the en,husiastc
twenty -ycar olders who was willing 10 be frank.
ar" not nearly 80 correct as they thin k they NJ"
III admit that men are scarce III The summer
and that most Of Us are willing 10 put NJ with
boys or play g"lf. talk and ride with one another
i~n't, only IN the summer that NO have this
trouble The most interesting aad attractive
mo-. those We all want To know and whose
company we take the greatest pleasure IN.
just as scarce In the winter rs at any
other time and they're Just a. hard - got
But they keep away, although nobody seems
10 know why. The average girl of % who
goe- TO a dinner likes t. ~ by a man who
l. al least 30 AZ any age between thar
agreeable than the man ten years younger
] don't mean to say that | would not rather
have the Younger man az a dance II had
gone there for the dancing He viii be able
10 keep his BREATH longer and is likely 10 dane
better Then Id Ike to have YOU take me bn'k
TO- the "idet man for The conversation nh ma
youth Al "a dinner or a theatre party, how
ever. he's "a failure. and " seems in'r,dlhle
have SO much more 10 say that interests even
the girl Of 20, they have had so many more
experiences and they're alt2gether so much
more attractive that our enthusiasm for them
needs no apology. But Try as We may. we can
only get them rarely and the fate of the average
or one only a little b, older The men who
are 50 much prizel say they don't like to come
e. little girls parties, that they md more pleas.
care for the children Probably that's the
reason they keep away from us. But We always
have our revenge in the end and get the better
of the young married women. They cannot
marry them. however they NAV like them
They've got TO come to VA " hen rs a question
Of m~atrimony and we have them then. even II
they re so hard TO get a. other times. and pos
-ib!y We ought to be satisfied with that The
complaint that young girls are not interesting
10 Non 81 a certain age may be true enough,
and il Il positive that the youths a girl has TO
talk with ara not Of n kind. usually. 10 make
her Interesting. 1t Ia always a question now
adayS - getting down To the Level NJ the men
she's thrown with in society II she were able
t. meet older men for awhile | think they
might find her more attractive. I'm sure
she'd like them better