The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-03-16


problem, she would have received
some sort of a reply. The Gazette
would even venture to say why
should the spirit of mortal be proud,
bat to discuss the country girl-that
is too deep for anyone around this
office. The experience Of the hard
ened dyspeptic cynic who has been
writing the High school girl articles
is limited. All he knows of country
girls is about just one girl who lived
on Harrison creek in Butler county.
She pulled his beautiful alabaster
leg for a ffty-dollar livery bill,
brought the entire family out to
laugh at him when he tried to hitch
up and confused the martingales
with the crupper, and then cruelty
shook him for a drummer with a
plug hat who knew how to tie his
own necktie. So that end of the
Gazette force is incapable Of dis
cussing the country girl dispassion-
ately. The local reporters for the
Gazette are all of an age where they
Judge girl by the duds she wears;
the business department which con-
tributes the scintillations that sand
wich between the patent medicine
ads on the third page, is blooming
bridegroom who sees the world
through rose colored glasses, so no
sane discussion of the country girl
may come from that end of the
paper. The society editor can't
write lick in the road without using
s'palms and cut flowers" Or "dainty
refreshments" or elaborate lunch
con-" or "a highly respected young
lady, we'll known and beloved in
Emporia society,"" or mooked pretty
in gown of white silk" or ode
lightfully entertained" or similar
expressions which in the nature Of
things make the sensible, handsome,
sincere country gill weary in the
marrow of her strong, solid bones.
SO the job of answering the query
for thoughts on the country girl i:
turned over to the railroad editor,
who lived on a farm in his youth
He deposes and says as follows:
If man is looking for a sensible
wife, let him 60 to the country
Likewise if woman is looking fol
a worthy husband, let her go to thu
country. There is something in ur-
ban life in America that softens ths
fibres of character; the great cite:
are ruled by country people. Look
at the Emporia banks today-every
one of these is run by men who be-
gan life in the country. The best
stores in town are run by country
boys grown up, and the happies'
homes in town are run by country
girls or by girls who were reared in
Emporia in the days when the town
and the country were separated by
an imaginary line. 1t is possible for
town girl to grow up and get mar
RED even though her parents are
poor, and not know enough about
running house to fry pancake.
Such a thing is impossible in the
country. A town girl can conceal
her ignorance, but when country
girl is poor cook, the scandalous
news passes from mouth to mouth
till the whole neighborhOod knows
it. No boy can complain that he is
fooled by the country girl, though In
town three boys out of FIVE buy
gold bricks when they marry. The
country girl who has such a fine
time in town on Saturday and whose
fun is the subject of ribaldry among
the snippy town girls, will be NOV,
ing to town in ten or fifteen years,
and living in big house with tower:
and bulging jimcracks of architec'
ture on it. After three or fOul
years of entertaining, church so
cials and missionary teas, the conn
try girl will break into the hant
painted china set, and the tow
girls who are laughing at her today
will wear their noses oft fawnins
over the country girl to get invita-
tons to her house.
1t is the way things even up II
this world. Merit wins. There il
no sense in taking any other view
Work is the only key to success
and because the country girl learns
to work she is bound to be happy IL
the long run. There is no better
product of American institution:
than the strong, hearty, helpful
earnest country girl. She will b'
the wife of the winning American O.
the twentieth century and the moth