Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-18

fectly free to select their own Adams. But it
suggests that the women come in large detach-
ments for a lone female wandering into Big
Horn to-day would stand in danger of being
mobbed. Mobbed with the kindest intentions, to
be sure, but nevertheless the attentions she
would have raned upon her would be little
disconcerting and unless she a woman OF
quick decision and will of adamant she would
be in danger of brain collapse through her eff
forts to decide where she was most needed
Well, suppose the women do come masse,
what's going to be done with them? Gray Bull
has thought about that and soon as it is war
ranted in doing large hotel will be put up
and here the Ewes can dwell altogether in lux
ury, and safety and appeasing Madame Grundy.
To this garden the Adams go on certain
evenings and in the large reception rooms and
parlors court their Ewes from eight till eleven.
From here the girls be married with all the
pomp and splendor dear to their hearts. Every
thing for their comfort will be considered and
they will have but to express wish to have a
hundred men fly to grant it.
= THE GIRLS DUTY.
Just one little wee thing these Ewes have to
do in return for all the privileges offered them
by the men of the Garden. They must bring
from the pastor of their home town or village
letter stating that they honorable, that they
are unmarried and that they are not engaged TO
marry any man in any town. The girls them
selves must express their willingness to make
happy Big Horn man should one succeed in
winning their affection. The not max
ing commercial deal of their offer by any
means. They demand that Cupid be given his
rights but they feel quite ready to love, honor
and cherish any good of amiable dispo-
sitIon who is predisposed to look upon them
with favor.
The ministers of the country requested to
put Gray Bull in touch with maidens likely to
take up with this generous offer and a call has
been issued to every commercial organization in
Big Horn county to Join in campaign to bring
more marriageable females into this Western
Eden. The call will ask each organization to
circulate a subscription paper for the collection
of fund. The money will be expended for arti-
cles in Eastern papers, reoiting the fact that
Big Horn has more than twenty unmarried
males to each single female. The many attrac-
tive businesses for the fair in the county will
also be recounted
"My idea ls," said the president of the Gray
Bull Club, chat If we will undertake a sya-
tcmatic campaign along these lines would eff
feet a marked change in conditions here in
few years. Many young women who would
make ideal wives are working twelve hours
day in the department stores and factories of
the East simply because they have no knowledge
OF conditions here. They have an idea that we
are an uncivihzed lot in the West.
ARTICLES truthfuly picturing the real condi-
tions, socially and climaticaIly, with the oppor-
tunities for employment to be found here, would
attract many to this county.
"Surely it ought not be long before our Eden
is properly populated. I can't imagine what
causes such a dearth of women in this vicinity
Now, in Bonesteel, South Dakota, there are
about $50 lone women good-looking, lovable
women, too, who are obliged to run their 100
acre homesteads all alone because Bonesteel can
not furnish enough men to go round that's the
irony of fate, 1t does though we each
might be godsend to each other if the respec-
tive sexes of Bonesteel and Big Horn could be
brought together. But the trouble is these girls
don't want to leave their 160 acres and we men
are established in Big Horn. Heigh-ho! it's a
1262. but it would be starter. What's the
matter with the girls of this century anyway;
they hate to put the orange blossoms until
the last trump. Well, they'll be welcome in Big
Horn if they have passed the sweet girl gradu-
ate age-or if they haven't, and they will find
an Eden awaiting EN- when they come to Biz
Horn"