The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-15


has too much business tact to be a wo-
man and too much common sense to be
man" She is mentally thus the hap
py mixture of both. and therefore just
right.
Her history is strikingly interesting
1t shows the inestimable value to girl
of being brought up on a farm. Miss
Griswold fully appreciates her blessings
IN this respect and lays much of her
present health, independence and
knowledge of how to do things to the
girlhood in the country. Her ancestry
on both sides traced back to doughty
old William Bradford. second governor
of Plymouth colony, one of that May
flower crew who came to America
sword in one hand, Bible in the other
Connecticut woman, Miss Griswold
was born in West Hartford. a brother
three years older than herself died in
early childhood. He had been the joy
and light OF his fathers heart, and she
came 10 take this brothers place. The
love the father had bestowed on the
boy and the pride he took in him were
somehow inherited by the little daugh-
ter, fortunately for both the father and
the child. So soon as she was old
enough Kate was this fathers shadow
on a reduced scale wherever he went.
She followed him to the fields, she sat
upon the reaping machine and drove
the horses. she MIXED the cows, she
raised ,vegeta bles, she reared chickens
and calves; she even confesses that
once she helped shingle a barn. Her
fond and admiring father declared at
length that. Kate was worth any three
or four boys because, to quote Goethe.
she understood and laid hold quickly"
My father was the best man in the
world says Miss Griswold.
If fathers only understood how to at
tach their daughters to them like this.
A healthier, luckier. happier bringing
up a girl could not have than hers was.
She learned to love animals and to take
care of them. Especially. perhaps. she
took to" horses. She learned to har-
ness and manage them better than
most men can do, and she has owned
and driven some fine ones. 1t is pleasant
to know that this model father of hers
lived to enjoy his beloved daughters
success in the world of action.
The business bent was evidently born
in Kate Griswold. Her first money was
earned at poultry rearing and vegetable
gardening. At one time she had 200 to
300 chickens. But even then the COM
mercial instinct was stirring busily in
her brain. Her knowledge of the chick
en- industry enabled her to write with
practical intelligence on the subject,
and her parents had given her good
education. the best of which undoubt-
edly was the live training in farm lore
When very young she wrote of chick
ems and eggs for the Poultry World
and wrote so well that presently she
was invited 10 take a desk in its office.
She accepted the invitation with alacri-
ty and entered al once its business de-
partment She was it's advertising
manager and correspondent. This is
how she got her place: There was some
thing of a competitive examina ton of
800 applicants. Miss Griswold won be-
cause she wrote rapidly and showed
herself to possess high degree OF gem
eral business ''gumption." No element
of luck in it. you see.
She was seven years with the Poul-
try World BY that time her reputation
for ability was established in Hartford.
Then. after serving the cause OF poultry
thus long. her love of horses got the
better of her love Of chickens. and she
transferred her affections. She accent
ed a post at the headquarters OF the
National Trotting association in Hart
ford here. again. IN the business and
advertising department She compiled
the associations directory and did gem
eral clerical work
L had a variety Of experience" saws
this business woman who learns all the
tine as she goes along
While with the National Trotting as
ISOLATION Miss Griswold had the first
and only breakdown OF her life. Before
she was fully matured physically she
had begun 10 do grown mans work In
the world and had kept Il NJ In the
Office OF the Trotting association she
undertook at the same tine 10 learn
shorthand. That fioored her. She col
lapsed altogether one day. They took
her. a nerveIess wreck. % al invalids'
health resort. where she rested ard
lived hyeienicsIly for year; then she
went hack 10 the dear old home IL the
country with her father. X vas tao or
three years more before she actively
engaged II business And I believe she
never attempted Shorthand again
After resting snrns years letting her
CLIPPED wings grow again. The giri BE-
came interested tn a far given by ihe
Hartford city mission she esta blfshed
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