Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-20
GIRL s FARM IS
RUN BY CUPID NOW
WERE DOING FINELY WHEN
LITTLE GOD BUTTED IN
Peanut Butter Made Men Sweet on
Them-Best Customer Won Junior
Partner and Senior Is About
to CapituIate

NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-There is a new
partner in the firm of Randolph &
Carleton agriculturists and peanut
butter makers of Bakersville, Conn.
The two New York girls who last sum-
mer began the experiment of running
farm without the aid of man have
had their enthusiasm for doing chores
leSSened to such an extent by the rig
ors of a New England winter that one
OF them, Miss Bertha Carleton, has vi
olated their ironclad agreement and
taken a husband. And if what the
neighbors say proves true, the other fair
farmer Miss Florence E. Randolph
may soon capitulate to the attack OF
Cupid.
The girls were formerly New York
city school teachers. They both tired OF
teaching the young idea and discovered
that each had an ambition for farm life.
Besides being young and pretty, the
girls were independent. With their
joint savings they bought the Baker
| farm at Bakerville, in the Litchfeld
hills. In comprises sixty acres and had
been abandoned for several years.
| Moved to the Farm
The young women moved to the farm
| last June after the rambling homestead
| on it had been repaired for their occu-
| pancy. During their school days the
| girls were noted among their friends for
their farm work and peanut butter they
| made. They formed the firm of Ran
| dolph & Carleton and placed their
product on the market. What with
their farm work and peanut-butter
making the former school teachers
found that they had their hands full.
All went well enough during the sum-
mer months The only concession that
the girls made to man was to have one
of the sex help them gather their hay.
From early morn until late at night
the partners toiled. They kept two
horses and one COW. Every part of the
farm work they did themselves, scorn-
ing the offers of hired men" to work
on the place at reduced wages. In fact,
farmers of the neighborhood complain
ed that since the advent of the girls 1t
was with difficulty that they kept their
help at their tasks. Hanging over the
fences to watch the girls at work was a
faVorite relaxation of BakerVille men
folk
When winter came the Misses Ran
dolph and Carleton found that life on a
farm was not such great fun after all,
especially when they had not even a boy
to get up early in the morning to do the
chores
The girls had a market in the nearby
city of Torrington for all the peanut
butter they could make Among their
best customers was Floyd B. Snyder,
prosperous young business man of the
place. He began to pay attention to
Miss Carleton.
ANY girl who can make peanut but
ter as she can," he was wont to say to
his friends, "is the kind of a girl that l
want for wife"
The Junior member of the firm did
not give up her principles without a
struggle. But last Friday, after she had
milked the COW with the thermometer
near the zero point, she made up her
mind to say yes"
II think it is time we had man on
this place." she said to Miss Randolph,
as she went into the house with the
milk and stood by the fire to warm her
benumbed hands.
"Well, I'm willing" replied her part
ner; when are you going to get mar
ried?"
Miss Randolph had not been unob-
serving of the battle between love and
duty to the firm that her companion
had been engaged in.
Tomorrow, if can get ready by that
time" said the junior member, blushing
furiously. Miss Carleton found her
sweetheart very ready, indeed and they
were married Saturday by the Rev. S.
W. Taft.
Mr.. and Mrs. Snyder returned at once
to the farm.