Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15

Dody. ana preserved their home customs
long as they lived there. But after two or
three crop failures they abandoned their
farms and disappeared, and the land Is now
occupied by Russian Menonites, who are
growing macaroni wheat on dry farms with
great success
Farm Operated by Women.
At Solomon. Kan. a farm of leo acres is
operated entirely by five women. a mother
and four grown daughters and a boy of
twelve years. Each of the women has her
own department. The labor is distributed
equally among them. The mother looks
after the house, does the cooking for the
family without any help and takes care of
about 500 chickens and other poultry. One
or the daughters attends to the dairy and
m1lks fifteen cows. They have eighteen
horses for farming and driving purposes a
small bunch of steers and Il hog-pen that
brings them from $500 to $500 clear profit
every year.
Theirs is one of the best farms in that
neighborhood. Most of il Is planted in
corn and wheat. but they are raising all of
the ordinary crops. The young women co
all of the field work. pillow, SOW and reap;
pus up their own fences. dig their own
drains, repair their own machinery and
employ no men hands. except occasionally
at harvest. Most of their farming is done
with machinery of the most improved up
to-date character, and their crops are equal
TO any raised in the neighbor hood. For
convenience they dress In mems clothing
while in the fields but when the days
work Is over they resume their petticoats.
They are good looking and we'll educated.
take daily newspapers and the leading
magazines: and two of them are graduates
OF the agricultural college at Manhattan.
Several other farms in this neighborhood
are managed by women, and women are
engaged in other kinds of business. real
estate firm of women at Cottonwood, Kan,
recently negotiated the sale of 10000 acres
OF land In the western part of the state.
ia war ,fa,vA s-f, t.
known throughout Kansas Oklahoma and
Indian Territory. 1t has done a good deal
OF real estate business for the railroad
companies One of the firm Is vice pres
ident of the Kansas Women's Suffrage AS
ISOLATION.
Women in Business.
You occasionally find a woman who is
president of bank, and frequently see
them serving as teilers. bookkeppers and
in other. clerical capacities. In central
Missouri there is large bank conducted
entirely by mother and three daughters.
Women hotel keepers are found in the
smaller towns, and down in Bolton, Tex, I'M
til recently there was famous hotel kept
by four women who had been deserted by
their husbands and thrown on their own re-
sources. For years it was the most popular
hotel in Texas-the favorite Sunday resort
of commercial travellers, who advertised It
everywhere they went, and brought many
patrons. Inc only man ABOUT the place
was a porter to handle the trunks and do
the heavy lifting. One of the women looked
after the office, another did the chamber
work, third was head waitress in the din
ing room and the fourth was chief cook.
Their health gave out some time ago. they
sold the hotel and all have disappeared.
1 have seen several women ticket agents
at the railway stations In Kansas. Okla
homa and Texas. but they are not popular,
nor are they competent to do the work re-
quired. They can sell tickets and work a
telegraph key, but they cannot handle
baggage or freight.
The railway station the mainland at
the end of the long bridge across the Bay
of Galveston is kept by a handsome young
lady, who remains there alone day after
day and month after month. seldom seeing
anybody except the people in the passing
trains. On one side of her is a two-mile
stretch of water. crossed only by trestle
work. and on the other side fourteen miles
of swamp. Her duties are very important.
however, because that trestle is the only
means Of reaching the city u Galveston
from the outside world. and she is depended
upon to keep 1t clear.