Omaha daily bee., 1902-11-02
combs. now necessary for the rest Of the
couture, matching. MARY DEAN.
CONCERNING WOMEN FARMERS.
A Prophecy that the Future IL Likely
to See FulhlIed.

to See FulhlIed.
The Farmers National congress con-
gressed at Macon, Ca, last week and pom
dered matters and passed resolutions Of
great pith and moment OF all the sincere
milk of rural and worldly wisdom there on
tap, says the New York Sun, we select that
| CT the Hon. John G. Stahl, secretary of the
congress. He deplored in the good old
tashion' the tendency OF the country boy to
prefer evening dress to overallS, the auto
| mobile to the plow, the city to the country
We can't blame the boys. The man In
cities pent has bucollc dreams; the country
| dreams of the town. so runs the world
away and so the stream OF population is
| kept fresh. Everybody wants to be what he
isn't; and after all, the zeal with which the
| townsman, grown rich, pours his money into
the soil, may be accepted as some com.
pensa tion for the trooping of the farmers
sons Into town. In way, the whole coun-
try grows urban, but there will always be
farms enough. The city folks have to have
them; and the city turns to farming as
eagerly as some Of the young farmers turn
| their backs on It.
The cream OF Mr.. Stahl's remarks relates
to different and more gracious breed of
! agriculturists. THE future" he Is sure
will see mny woman farmers" 1t Is
fashionable for girls.to be athletic and sun
burned. Why may it not become the
fashion for them to be farmers? Hear the
plausible secretary:
Very much Of farm work is no more tir-
ing on the muscles than operating a type
writer; 1t Is much less wearing on the ner-
vous system, and IL is certainly much more
healthful Woman has taken mans place
TO a large extent in the school room, the
store. the ONCE, even the pulpit and the
courts, Why not on the farm? The past
harvest quite a number OF women worked IN
the fields and liked Il. There are some very
successful women farmers. The farmer
: may, indeed, much prefer seeing his daugh-
ter helping him In the neld, operating the
mower OF the harvester or hayrake or corn
planter than tempting fate amid the arti-
fcial, unwholesome and dangerous condi-
tions OF the city"
new race of Faithful shepherdesses may
spring up and the glories OF the pastoral
romances, Spanish, Italian and Arcadian
may be revived. And by the side Of or IN
competition with the courtly and luxurious
ruralists with their hooped pettieoats and
diamond studded crooks. a set Of sovereign
solid agricultural divinities may arise, tn,
clear-eyed business women making a bust
| ness of farming. Man is pretty well de
throned already. There is not much OF hin
left except preterses. The women are drlV
ing him out, and some stern feminine econ
omists even advise that he be externinated
We hope the movement will not go 80 fa
as that, at least in our time, but the rascs
will be taught TO know his place and he 1
coming to know that the quiet but relent
less women will leave mighty few place
for him by the time they have done wit
him. II they set their hearts to farmin
they will be good farmers; and as they ar
more intelligent than the men, the latte
will be allowed to do the hard work on II
farm. We may be permitted TO doubt
hoeing potatoes is An easier Job than plA,
ing the typewriter. but the women fo1
will suit themselves.
There is one consoling reflection to
made: II the girls "gravitate" toward Il
country, the men will "gravitate" thith'
also. Men cannot live in cities by then
selves; and those unfortunate spots may b
come altogether depopulated when u
women have taken up farming.