New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-10

bachelor girl farmer She was young and there
was no sign OF toll about her She driving in
dogcart toward the capital behind blooded
horse Her seaisldn Jacket. her smart toQue and
wei fitted gown did not proclaim the girl farmer,
But am farmer. and the simon-pure article
Miss Gilroy protested when her attention was
called to the fact that she hardly dressed the part
Tn proud OF It, awfulIy proud. because Of the
success I've made Of II.
'Ill health and an inability to make a living out
OF art TO which l had consecrated my girlhood.
brought me into this prairie country. had a Nv
ing TO make. and II seemed easier to take a farm
OF my own than TO work FOR some else.
I've proved up half section. 500 acres. and
run II BY myself. ! keep hired man the year
round, and during the. busy seeding and thresh-
Ing seasons secure the help OF three or four. sit
in the binder I'm harvest time, and enjoy It
much ever I did painting landscape have
followed the plough and there many who can
attest that 1 turn a straight furrow. And
you haven't heard the worst. for I've cleaned out
my stables when the man not about to do IT.
From a semi-invalid existing bare living
brought in by my paintings. Two grown TO be the
healthiest Of women. No, not exactly the wealth.
est. well. but I man. have clear title to
my go acres and have made money from the start
Life prairie farm IS ideal existence;
that IS. II you don't get into a rut. There IS no
drudgery about 1t unless you let it become drudg-
cry"
She boarded the Canadian Pacific Overland at
Calgary this grandmother Of the Territories. Her
face beamed until the age wrinkles no longer
showed She was going back TO Montreal 10 visit
her sister, a holiday well earned and one that
she could we'll AFFORD in view OF the yearly
OF prosperity that have been rolling over
her She was from the Saskatchewan. as every
body In the Pullman knew before long. She told
the porter as she climbed into the vestibule and
the passengers made her acquaintance one BY
one she told them.
IT'S fine country. the Saskatchewan" she said,
land I'm one OF the pioneers"
That was honor enough for her-for any woman
indeed.
II came. out In 70" said the old woman. That
means as much over here to have been forty
miner on tire Pacific Coast in the States. Winnipeg
wasn't much 10 look at then There was street
and two or three Indifferent hotels. The only the
il was a sort Of a hall over a meat market and
the odor on the Sabbath not altogether one
The overland trip was the rule in those days;
everybody started out In a big wagon, the pro
vision supply being confined to necessaries We
lived in tent houses in summer and log shacks-
one window affairs-in winter. Unbleached cotton
did for ceilings, and had choice between a
1T was the women who suffered in those days.
and Il was the women who said nothing about II.
l once walked few miles down the tran 10 visit
q neighbor and when | reached her little log house
it TO hnd new baby lad arrived an hour be
fore and the only attendant the mother nad Vas
u ten-year-Old girl the eldest OF the family: The
doctors come to the settlements with hter Inven-
who settled the West there wouldn't be an acre OF
"A woman with capital of $500. say. can be sure
or gaining competency in this land But the
trouble is''-and she smiled archly-"as soon as
these women mmigrate they are snatched up by
the hordes of we-to-do bachelors VINO lack nothing
but some one share their prairie Joys
= great migration from the central states to the
Canadian Northwest has been under way for sew
are sprnging up is quite American. In 1902 100000
acres Of Dominion government land on the prairies
is limited but the railway grants will supply home
steads for settlers for number or years 10 come