The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-22
WOMEN ACCOMPLISHMENT
WHAT LIFE IN THE WEST
 MEANS FOR THEM.
It Seems an Impossible Thing to Do, but Eastern Women as a Gen. eral Thing Become Ac-
 customed to It.

W. R. Draper in New York Times.
 To the woman who has spent the best years of her life in quiet country town in the East mere suggestion of Comlns 2 to a frontier country Is terrifying. but this is the class that make the best of the wild, unrestrained manners of border life when once they get into IL. ..
 In late years women nave come lhto frontier life more prominently than Is generally known. In great measure they have been responsible for tanning most of the once noted bad men. IT not tamable, the bad man has cleared him. self from their society, seeking nelo where as yet woman Is practically un- known. There are communities In lndlan Territory and Oklahoma Aflzoha anu anu New Mexico, where women have not been seen, except as passing shadoWs- None have ever stopped there. But IL IS not because they are afraid or dare noI-lI is because they have not been called. Their men folks have never seen fit 10 go into these places.
 As the great West is being opened to settlement more every year, one sees the saloons, slip further into the great un- kroWn. A few years hence the coWboYs say, there will be no frontiers, as there are today few large cattle ranches An industrious element of Americans, who have terror for nothing so long as there is money to be made, have invaded the frontier and captured it. But not With out the women; the quiet and gentle type
  as her own husband, so far as fearing them is concerned. It Is wonderful how woman will shrink as in dread when she reads long accounts of the doings on a frontier, but when she is brought face to face with them she will not display, or feel for that matter, any more emotion than were she meeting ordinary men Who cannot even handle slx-shooter.
 Into the hot. dusty towns of Oklahoma have emigrated women upon whose faces any one could read refinement. First opinions of the practical were that they would die of loneliness or leave the com munity before a weeks end. They were much surprised when they did neither. but remained and accomplished their purpose-that of making the town ht place to live in
 From the tent to sod house, later a frame two-room shack. and then cot tage of modern type, is the manner tn which a new country grows Sometimes all of this will require five, even ten years. All depends upon the crops, the tide of emigration, and the money they bring with them or that which they earn after arriving e"
 Tent for a House.
 For the first year life is generally spent in tents boarded upon the side and a few rough blanks used for floor. On claim farm) sod houses are ofttimes used for the reason that they can be had cheaply. A farmer will take a few blanks or logs, nail them into rough frame, and pile inc sod around 1t. Inside a sprinkling of lime is daubed on the bare earth. One window and a door, at the most, suffices for light and entrance. Then, after the first crop has been sold, if enough mon- ey remains, a two-room frame house (shack) is tackled on to the front of the sod one and there a woman must live un. til her husband has mounted to riches and afiuence in his community. They then afford house on just such lines as is desired.
 In the settlement of Oklahoma women played a most prominent part. The land there was given away to those who were fieetest of foot or who rode the swiftest horses In the mad. wild race were many women. Some came from the large de- partment stores of the East. others from quiet country towns, and even others out of society All were anxious to make a fortune alone and in new country. sto, ries in the dispatches were of course read and discussed the manner in which such . bad man would treat them were they