The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-03-04
OF MILLION
new women ARRIVE
american Freedom Is Written
About to Friends in the
Old Country.
IT INSPIRES IMMIGRATION
rhc Land Where Women Do Not Hav
to Slave and Where Their Children
May Be Educated 10 Where
They Would Live.

Thomas G. Clayton in the Washingto.
Star: The ranks Of. Americas real new
woman are gaining recruits at a lively
xate. w hundred and ten thousand and
fe~venty-sevep were added last year.
or this number, Austria-Hungary fur
nished 56,257. Italy sent the next highest,
4o,635; Russia was third wish 90, S4G, and
Germany's quota was 16, 1868.
Sufficient women to make fifteen regi-
fnents Of 1000 members each arrived from
ireland, whence came the largest percent
pge or women, the total numbers Of i'm
migrants from the ''auld sod being H.
S02, or 2,098 more women than men, the
only instance where the men were fewer.
On the other hand. Greece sent the small
est relative percentage-40s out IF more
than 1900.
From elsewhere the country's real new
woman came in numbers as follows:
Belgium. 1,SSS; Denmark. 1920; Eng
l.76l; Norway, 6,137; Portugal. al; Rou-
mania. s,S25; Servia, "a; Spain, 275; Swe-
den. $685.; Switzerland, 1879; Turkey in
Europe, l12; Turkey in Asia, 1,3O6; Scot
land. 3,s2S; Wales, 526; West Indies, 1855.
While the great majority OF these wom-
en- came with broods Of children, in num-
Der all the way from two to fourteen
and with all the old world traditions
clinging tenaciously to them, yet they also
arrived at Ellis Island with some brand
new Ideas, of the new world sort, in their
heads.
Letters home are responsible for the new
notions" said the chief Of the staff of the
thirteen matrons who take charge of tho
women while they are on the island.
These letters, from friends who nave
preceded the women here by a year or
two, are a curious commingling Of Euro
pean and American thought, but they are
clear enough concerning the new mode
or life to cause the recipients to be in1u-
enced by them in their coming. The men
generally give one reason for their immi-
graung-work; but the women nave a
variety of answers, although work is not
infrequently the reply Of the Italian
woman.
Still, ever she has her own new world
Idea, which she secretly nourishes.
She Wanted Freedom.
"A girl who had lived In Naples was
heid for deportation. She was exceeding
y downcast, and L went over to her and
tried to cheer her. But she would not be
consoled, and between her sobs kept re-
peating again and again:
" '~Oh-oh-oh-and I can't ever be my
own boss-no-never!"
IT turned out that q friend had written
per that the American women have equal
freedom with the men, and that they
carry a latch key as well, or something
TO that effect. So the girl started over,
but as she had no relatives here, and no
one who was responsible offered to take
care Of her If she was permitted to land,
she was returned.
Here was an unusual new world idea;
put one that is general among the women
Is the American idea of educating the
children. l firmly believe that the women
immigrants are largely responsible for the
great number OF foreign children In the
schools OF New York and other cities with
a large foreign population.
ASK the men If they have any ambi-
ton for their children in the new land,
and likely as not they'll say, 'Yes-work.
Put the same question to the women and
usually the answer will be along these
lines:
"I had a sister come over two years
ago. She wrote back MUCH, saying how
Tony was a bright boy, because he was
going to school. She said he did not have
TO work hard all day to help make a liv-
Ing. She said my children would be as
bright as Tony, too, If would bring
them over, and they wouldn't nave to
start to work until they were old enough,
either. So I am here"