The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-27
The WOMAN WITH
The PLOW.
BY Prudence Wfnte,e,een.

sociological events happen In Chtca-
20 than In any other part OF the
country.
- The other day a farmer walked
"a 4 Chicago employment bureau and
s1hed for a man to help In the piowine
q his farm. There wasn't any man
snsrs who wanted that kind of a lob. but
q the surprise Of everybody. a woman
ssSpped forward, applied for the work
I'd was hired.
AFTER which a Chicago editor proceeded
"a hold forth upon the subject in this
syle. women have participated in az
,,cuture since the Aryon race QUIT its
predatory career and began tilling the
egrth and organizing society.
"Dur intense summer heat being nm
Known there, women and children are
he intimate and loving companions Of
~ fields from spring to autumn. At
he plow. woman is most picturesque.
Erect. her head thrown slightly back,
Militant drapery upon her hair. or its
graceful waves falling upon roseate snoul-
arr her arms at rest or occasionally ex-
tended In significant gesture, her 1.-the
body gently swaying with the unduation
Of the earth yielding Its burrows to the
uwny OK or impatient horses, she looks
ME Greek statue suddenly recovered
from . subterranean gallery. For Il IL
now established that the Greeks corored
their sculpture and that chryselephan-
tine gold and ivory was not their only
node Of plastic decoration.
"oulding the pillow imparts an exhil-
hratng feeling Of power, a delicious
- - .x1
muscles: 1t is free from tension, mental
or corporeal It expresses grace, free
dcm, independence. and II clasps the
human creature tenderly to the bosom
4 mother earth"
This is probably the sublimest flight Of
Imagination of which the Chica-
eoan is capable. would like
b set Mr.. Hamlin Garland on that edit
n. Az In well known. Mr.. Garland Is
opposed to the pillow. even In the hands
u the stalwnrt farmer, and what he
would say to having II guided by femi-
nine fingers would make interesting read.
lns. q
However, the real Significance OF the
woman behind the pillow would probably
y missed by people like Mr.. Garland and
hr Edwin Markham, who are given to
seeing the sensa tional side of social phe-
Aomena. What she really represents Is
not oppression but usurpation. The wo-
man In the Chicago intelligence office
probably took the job because she liked
Il better than dish washing. and while
ahe takes some mans place behind the
plow he has taken hers In front OF the
dlshpan. and the spectacle which nc
makes there could be written up in Ian
euase as sweetly pretty as that uset
BY the Chicago editor-but ! will refrain
recorded for year or more the fact that
general housework- men were becoming
Domestic institutions I'm that city, and
that the housekeepers were on the whole
pleased with the solution OF the help
problem which they offered.
An or which would seem TO show that
the world is getting topsy-turvier every
minute, and that It's very difficult to
nay who began II and still more difficult
10 say who II going to stop first. 1t Il
easy 10 be cheaply facetious upon the
subject but cheap righteousness neither
cuts Ice nor buffers parsnips. And few
people Will see any more suitability In
the man at the dishpan than in the wo-
man at the plow.
when you consider the subject dispas-