The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-04-29
Girl. As FOREST GUIDE
College Graduate to "HIt the
TraiF In the Adir0ndacks.
LOVER OF OUTDOOR LIFE.

| Women to Earn a Living In the Open
| Air-Lauds Country Lass.
II do not see why it should follow
because one happens to be @ girl col
lege graduate that she should cling
| forever to the cities and hold only to
the vocationS and ayOcations which
are considered as peculiarly belonging
to her sex. Therefore / cannot see why
| SO much ado is made about me-a very
| ordinary girl-simply because I love
nature SO passionately that l wish to
| be always in touch with her and be
| cause / am going to act for the coming
| season at least as guide through the
| magnificent wilds of northern New
York.
The foregoing Is a statement made
| few days ago for publication" by
Miss Ella Marion Young, formerly of
Philadelphia and a direct descendant
OF Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame,
who for the past three years has been
nomadic resident of half a dozen vii
lagos In the Adirondacks and along the
shores of the ST Lawrence, says Il
special dispatch from Lake-of-the-
Woods, n Y, to the New York Times.
Miss Young is at present occupying
little rustic cottage belonging to her
brother-in-law, DR.. John 4. Miller Of
Atlanta, and situated upon Green is
land, in the Lake-of- the Woods.
An announcement appearing recent
ly In n Lake-of-the- Woods paper stated
that Miss Young would act in the ca
pacity of guide during the coming sea-
son, and the girls of a score of villages
whispered and wondered. They were
sure it must be q Joke" for many Of
them knew Miss Young and were
aware of her accomplishments. How
ever, that there might be a grain of
truth In the report was suspected by a
number of them, for she had already
won q name as q champion of out Of
doors living and as the foremost hunt
er of her sex In the Lake-of-the-W Woods
section of the Empire State. Many
large sized 'don'ts' came In her mail.
"Of course | take none of the letters
too seriously" she said to the CORE
spondent who went over to Green is
land. "No doubt many Of my girl
friends are very much In earnest, but
must own that the more dolefully ad-
vlsory the missives are the greater Is
my enjoyment of them. But l wonder
If the girls think l am thus easily dis
suaded from carrying out an idea l
have had in mind for yearsp l was
always fond of the great outside of
houses and at Bryn Mawr took delight
In oil athletics, but only now have /
reached the ideal.
NO" said Miss Young pleasantly, an
swering the newspaper mans request
for more about herself and her fami-
ly, II don't think 1t Is necessary to
make q biography of this story do
your You see, 1t Is a long bark back
to Ethan Allen and Fort Ticonderoga,
and while we are all proud of the old
hero, there Is no good reason why he
should be exploited in my behalf. Per
haps, though, the love for the lakes
and woods and mountains with which
my blood is filed was generated in the
veins of the Revolutionary patriot,
whose authority for most things was
the great Jehovah and the Continental
congress-
1.-The whole world of honest endeavor
is open to women, and there is no good
reason why they should not take ad-
vantage of it. Do not understand me
as being in favor of my sex going into
coal mines, machine shops or nerve
racking factories. But they may be-
come more generally small farmers,
dairy proprictors, fruit raisers and
poultry keepers, to say nothing of be-
coming carriers of mail In the rural
free delivery system, railroad and tele-
graph agents, guides, etc.
Il really pity those Of my sex who
think that they must be employed in
stores or offices to maintain a certain
standard of responsibility. They de-
lude themselves into thinking that to
be country girl is to be n little out
of date and not quite refined. But do
they ever stop to think that health,
happiness and beauty are more fre-
AuelIy louuu AIlouB inc lii1l pines
than among the 'skyscrapers?'
''It Is said that l am the first girl
guide. But you may be sure that there
will be others, for myself will gladly
help any girl who wishes to take up
the work.
"Many girls and women come to the
Adirondacks and the st. Lawrence ev-
cry season without male escort They
spend much of their time about the
hotel verandas and really see but little
Of woods life, though n majority of
them are anxious to do so. Some OF
| believe without good raa-
not care to have men guides,
and 1t is these who, believe, will ad-
dress themselves to me-"
DIR. William II. Young, Miss Young's
father, was a prominent surgeon of
Philadelphia and at one time q pro-
fessor of medicine at the University Of
He died widOwer in
1901, leaving a comfortable fortune to
his daughter.
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