The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-01
KANSAS NEWS.
Wanted: One Hundred Irish
COlIeens for Kansas.
Father O'Farreu to Solve the
Domestic Help Problem.
COME FROM TIPPERARY
The BuxOm, BOnny Lasses In
Vited to Reno County.
Give Them a Chance on the Free
Prairies.
COME FROM TIPPERARY

Hutchinson, Kan, April Father NJ
J. O'Farreu, priest in charge OF St
Teresa's Parish church, at Hutchinson
who IS q. native of Nenaghs County Tip
perarys ireland, has written his old
home county paper to send from sixty
30 100 irish girls to Hutchinson. He
viii see that they are given work in
Hutchinson families.
In addition to solving in part the
servant girl problem, Father O'Earrell
Is also arranging for a start in life and
Cor the betterment of the condition Of
the neighbors Of his childhood days in
the Emerald Isle. The idea is meeting
with the APPRECIATION of Hutchinson
housewives, who have worn themselves
out trying to get the needed household
ha1p. It viii also prove, according to
Father O'Earrell, a godsend to the poor
girls Of Irish blood who are growing up
"a the country in the south of Ireland
without a hope for any better conditions
than their mothers have faced for cen
Euries.
Father O'Farrell is a young man,
scarcely 80 years Of age. He is a native
81 County Tipperary, living there and
getting his education in Ireland until
about four years ago, when he came to
America he first located at Rochester,
NJ r, where he completed his studies
for the priesthood. From there he took
q parish at Weir City, later going to
winfield and coming to Hutchinson less
than a year ago.
81 know the conditions in Ireland 50
said he today. eft is the life the peo-
pie in the poorer classes lead there that
tempts me to do something for the wo-
men folk. They come to New York and
Chicago, from the free air of their
healthy homes and many lose health
and all in the narrow confinement Of the
big city life. They don't come to kan
sas nor to the country, because they
know nothing of the charm and the ben
eat of country life in America Here
they could be given employment and
homes in the families Of the best peo-
pie and a. chance to better their condi-
tfon IN every way.
II have written to the county paper
that the girls, from Is to % or 25 years
Of age can be taken care of. They Will
be given wages at the rate of So to IS
q week, with good rooms and board.
Members OF the best families of Hutch
1nson have been seen and while no def
mite arrangements are made, I will be
able to find places to do homework for
from fifty to 100 girls.
ffIrish girls are model pictures Of
health. They are mostly brought up in
the country, in the south of Ireland, and
they are as fleet of foot and limb as a
trained athlete. They have work to do
there, to be sure, but when working in
the home OF a neighbOr. who is better
able to care for them than their own
parents are, they get no wages in the
majority of instances, merely getting a
home their board and clothing. An
irish srl knows Homework and is not
ASHAMED e. do it. The many other
things which girls work at in America
has made homework seem distasteful
60 the American girls and the homes
nnd tha Kitchens are in need of help.
''1lsh girls are robust and. even