The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-04-02

ed of the older states and struck AK
into the forest primeval. There they
made homes and reared great families
of sons and daughters; there in turn
these sons and daughters lived and
thrived, establishing public schools and
colleges and newspapers. or their
children the boys worked on the farm
in summer and thus helped pay their
way at college in winter; the girls got
certificates to teach a country school,
over which they presided in summer,
and they too went to college in win
ter. The first college open to women
in this Union. Oberlin, is in central
northern Ohio. The first woman suf-
frage convention was held in the same
region.
So pleasant and prosperous did this
part of the state become and continue
that the descendants of the pioneers
did not leave it, but many of them re-
main. pure native American stock,
thriving, intelligent farm people. 10
this day the Declaration of lndepend-
ence is read among them on the
| Fourth of July; yes, and the people be-
lieve it, too, teaching their sons and
| daughters after them that all mankind
is created free and endowed by nature
with certain inalienable rights, among
which are life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness for both women and men.
Women there have had Fourth OF
July celebration all to themselves.
The women and girls believe that 1t
is the worker who honors the work,
not the work the worker. They milk
cows. dig in the garden, do millinery
and dressmaking or even go out to do
nestle service, and they have yet to
learn that they are not ladies because
of if. The spirit of &c lives and
breathes in them still. Well educated
daughters of well to do farmers-girls
who would be schoolmistresses only
there are so many well educated young
women there that the schools Will moi
20 oround-take service in the cities
and remain as before, self respecting
ladies.
In Cleveland many of these well edu
Gated American girls, some OF then
hearing names that were signed to thu
Declaration of Independence, are foun'
in the hotels as chambermaids ant
housemaids. 1t gives the oldest I'm
preston to a traveller accustomed L
, the hotels of Europe and our own east
, ern states to stop at one of the Cleve
land hotels where the native American
, voung women are employed. The sigh
of them would warm the hearts o
. those patronizing people who write an
preacb Of LADY helps" and one fear
\ it would set them off galloping thel
s hobby harder than ever.
, These American hotel girls seem ratl
e er like the best class of schoolmlstres'
o In person they are immaculate, PAL
4 ticularlv nice as to their heads, thong
h they wear caps scarcely at all. A ca
g does not suit their ideas. Their gran
!. mar is oftentimes perfect. their maj
8 ners are uneXceptionable.
g They meet strangers as equal |
n eoual Quite unconsciously 10 then
. selves they give you the impressio
+ that they are as good as you are, NJ
% obtrusively or Extensively, howeye
They simply know they are as good
it you are, and they know you must kno
e. it also, and that ends it.
ID Some of them play the piano an
" play 1t well. The consciousness tn;
n they are equal to the people on who
o. they wait gives them friendly, obi
ing spirit, and with their Yankee quic