The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-02
WOMEN ACCOMPLISHMENT.
JyHAT LIFE IN THE WEST MEANS
 FOR THEM.

but Eastern Women as Gcner-
 al Thing Become Accustomed to the
 Life.
 To the woman who has spent the best years of her life in a quiet country town in the East a mere suggestion of coming to a frontier country is terrify- ing. But this is the class that makes the best of the wild, unrestrained man. ners of border life when once they get into it.
 In late years women have come into frontier life more prominently than is generally known. In a great measure they have been responsible for tanning most of the once noted bad men. If not tamable, the bad man has cleared himself from their society, seeking a field where as yet woman is praci ally unknown. There are communities in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, Ari- zona and New Mexico, where women have not been seen, except as passing shadows. None have ever stopped there. But it is not because they are afraid or dare not-it, is because they have not been called. Their men folks have never seen fit to go into these places
 As the great west is being opened to settlement more every year one sees the frontier, with it's outlaws, gamb CTS and saloons, slip further into the great unknown. A few years hence, the cow boys say there will be no frontiers, as there are to-day few large cattle ranch es. An industrious element of Ameri- cans. who have terror for nothing so long as there is money to be made, have invaded the frontier and captured it. But not without the woman; the quiet and gentle type who would as soon talk with a bad man as her own husband, so far as fearing them is con- cerned. It is wonderful how woman will shrink as in dread when she reads long accounts of the doings on Iron tier. 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 six-shooter'
 Into the hot, dusty towns of Okla homa have emigrated women upon whose faces any one could read renne- ment. First opinions of the practical were that they would die of loneliness or leave the community before week. $. end. They were much surprised when they did neither, but rema ned and ac- complished their purpose-that of mak- ing the town a fit place to live in
 From the tent to a Sod house, later aIr a tage of modern type, Is the manner Tn which new country. grows. some times all of this will require five, even ten years, All depends upon the corps, the tide of emigration and the money they bring with them, or that which they earn after arriving.
 For the first year life is generally spent in tents boarded upon the side and a few rough blanks used for floor. On a claim (farm) sod houses are oft times used for the reason that they can be had cheaply. A farmer will take few blanks or logs, nail them into rough frame, and pile the sod around it. Inside a sprinkling of lime is daub- ed on the bare earth. One window and a door at the most. suifices for light and entrance. Then after the first crop has been sold, if enough money remains, two-frame house (shack) is lacked on to the front of the sod and there wo- man must live until her husband has mounted to riches and affiuence in his community. They then afford a house on just such lines as is desired
 In the settlement of Oklohama women played a most prominent part. The land there was given away to those who were heetest of foot or who rode the swiftest horses. In the mad race were many women Some came from the large department stores of the East, others from quiet country towns, ana even others out of society. All were anxious to make a fortune alone and in a new country. Stories in the dis patches were of course read and dis cussed, the manner in which such a bad man would treat them were they face to face with him, was turned over and analysed by the pretty clerk Then she concluded with true grit to come out and meet him, taking the worst if necessary, but always considering that other men would be on hand to see fair play.
 H., E. the women who invited the Oklahoma frontier came with her husband and his family He had just lost fortune in some wild speculation, and was de- termined to get free home in the west, Some had had no fortunes to lose and wished to secure one. They consulted their wives Few spurned the proposi- tion.
 camping with the multitude along the borders was a most unpleasant task. Cooking in the open, sleeping in cover cd wagons tprairie schooners), and en- during all the distasteful manners of the drunken cowpuncher and home seeker, was surely enough to make them wish their trip had never been Undertaken. None ever turned their backs upon the golden future, however. The prospect of uarter section of land. all their own, was something which appealed strongly. To let it slip was not to be considered,
 And then came the race--the wild mad rush for land, in which everybody sought to outdo his neighbor by stealth or daring, he cared not, Thousands crowded along the dead line. and at a shot from the soldiers they were off. in wagons, on horseback, bicycles, trains, and evrything that would go The ones who had fast mounts, when safely ahead of their competitors, stopped and set fire to yne tall grass. The flames