The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-10-27

ner on her own account to Go some
thing better paid for than factory
work. She herself says she gained her
present place by hard work and the
will to succeed" From her wages in
the silk mill she saved enough money
to take a course in business college,
also to give her sister Kate the benefit
Of instruction in cooking school,.
Miss Kate is now the housekeeper at
the milltonaire's country home.
There are numerous such posts as
Miss Smith holds waiting for the wo-
men who can fill them. Now, too,
there is opportunity for women to pre-
pare themselves scientifically to be Ell
Their estate superintendent or to oper-
ate farms, gardens and ranches Of
their own. The logic of events has
demonstrated that a so called educa-
ton Of Latin, Greek and ancient his
tory fits a student neither mentally,
morally nor physically to cope with
the conditions of today. Moral and in
dustrial training is the crying need.
For the girl who must earn her own
living-for any girl, in fact-there is
perhaps no field so promising as that
which opens to one scientifically
trained in rural occupations. Amherst
Agricultural college admits both sexes,
and this year the first girl has been
regularly graduated. She Is Miss Els
Their Cushman.
Moro roro11noro two than ~r0x,oYv,
ment clerkship, however, will be found
the practical personal conducting Of
farms and gardens by trained women
agriculturists. 1t Is better to lay a
foundation Of general knowledge Of
farming, then on that to build one or
more specialties, such as ia1rying,
Horticulture, beekeeping, poultry rails
ing or fruit and vegetable gardening.
Horticulture and beekeeping, dairying
and poultry raising, for instance, may
be combined with profit.
Amherst Agricultural college has a
number of other girl students in it's
various departments. One is taking
the full all around course, expecting to
personally operate live stock ranch Of
her own in the west. She says she in
tends to learn to run farm engine,
work at forge, also to do land sur
veying besides getting knowledge Of
botany and geology. All this knowledge
Is today needful for the skilled agri-
culturist. The rule OF thumb in farm
ing operations works no longer. It
and that other rule that among fami-
~ Of sons the stupid one was good
enough to be a farmer have landed in
bankruptcy considerable proportion
Of the rural population in the older
parts Of the country.
An arrangement goes into effect this
autumn whereby preliminary agri-
cultural course Of two years will be
added to the Simons Industrial Female
college in Boston. Young women who
have passed this course will then be
admitted to the advanced classes at
Amherst. Thus Boston city girls Of
small means will be enabled to COM
mence their course at home. Land
scape gardening is another branch Of
rural occupation which commends
itself specially to women. Among
those already successful in this field
Is Miss Beatrice Jones.
In the state universities many girl
students are taking the agricultural
courses. 1t Is not enough, either, that
a girl should put on a fantastic white
sunbonnet and sit upon stool beside
a cow and be photographed. She must
learn not only to milk that COW scien-
tifcaily, but also with her own hands
to feed and take care Of the cow.
! DORA BELLE DENNLSON.