Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-03

tels. The journey had taken all sum,
| her long, because the horse had he
come sick and they had put up a whole
| aaoHth IN the Ozark mountains while he
! was eonyalescing. That winter She and
/ iier nine children lived in a sodhouse.
! as has lived many another 0kIahop,,
homeseeker in his early days.
| Naturally. says the writer in The De-
liheator for April. after having heard
sach a story, we were all anxious for
glimpse Of its heroine, and naturally
| we expected 10 see n woman who would
| look the part--a stern. ungainly sort Of
| woman: But alasl for our illusions
| Inc INDECENT widow who in calico wrap
per and sunbonnet had made her hegira
! ~ 4 prairie schooner, stood there upon
the STATION platform dressed in all the
| glory or typical cluhwomnn NJ faa
! state federation-tailored suit, white
| shlrtWaist, and much waved pompa-
| aour. She had driven to the station IN
| 4 SHINING surrey, drawn by a sleek
mare.
Then the transformation in her ap-
| p@fahce was not so hard to under
ana. The farm which she had bought
| i2r SoU-every cent she had in the
N'rld-She had refused $4,000 for only
| a iew weeks before. The sod house she
had wed in that first winter had given
pace now to Il ten-room dwelling. The
| eldest of her sons was now in a bust
! ness college in Oklahoma City, and the
other Tour run the farm under ner direc-
| ten. She had bought an upright piano
Tor her daughters, and had herself
joined the Women's club in the neighbor-
ing village. And right here it is inn
poftant to note that no city is too young,
| no village TOO small in Oklahoma. not
TO acknowledge proudly at least two rival
! Women's clubs.
Visit to Mountaineer
! feel as if l We're living in a story
book. said Mrs. William G. Frost, wife
OF the president of Berea college. adj
/ dressing an audience assembled in the
| nome OF Miss Helen Gould on Monday
| AFTERNOON III the interests of the college
qad the mountaineers of Kentucky. Mrs
fost rehearsed in charmingly graphic
| way one of her visits to a typical noun
/ tain home.
| Sunbonnet on head and whip in hand
rode on horseback first down a good
| pike, then over n mud road. and then
| through the bed of mountain stream, !"
| she said. Much of our travelling has to
| be by way of the river beds Reaching
the valley, | came to little log cabin
| ne men were working in the
cofnheld on the hillside. The
woman of the household was wash
| ing by The stream. Children We're TO be
| seen III every direction, the boys keeping
! ffe under the kettle. the girls trying to
| make themselves useful, and the baby
| lying asleep on blanket Large fam
| lies are the rule. If there are less than
eight or ten children apologies are in
order. President Roosevelt is more pop
ular in the Cumberland mountains than
| he is in Wall street.
Howdy, honey? Mighty proud to
| see yer. Rest yer bunnit and take a
! cheer, said the mountain woman as she
| escorted me to the house. There were
| IN the one room two beds, six split bot
tom chairs, stove. and a table covered
| with olIcloth. \ meal was soon spread.
| consisting of corn pone and coffee. The
| hostess proudly called attention to a re-
! cent acquisition, a window cut in the
| side of the cabin. Then she brought out
| her art treasures. quilts and homespun
! blankets, some of them made in patterns
| handed down from Revolutionary DAYS.
| Many of these mountaneers can trace
! their descent back to the time of the
| Revolution, and some housewives display
! shawls or coyerlids inherited from the
wives of generals III Washington's army.
a neighbor came in, and after a few
moments chat remarked naiveIy: How
plain You talk. Mis- Frost Some o. these
1 4
understand EN-.
These women, isolated as they are.
however are keen to hear of the outside
world especially of New York. L s'pose
| there re lots of things goin' on up there
that we don't know nary about said
| one; an lots o things goin on here that
| they don't know nary about. | bleeve
miXin' helps both parties Another said !:
| Give MS sOmethin' to study about. One
reason we take to shootin' each other
| here in the mountains is because we
don't have nothin' else to think about.
Many of the women possess beautiful
strong personalities. continued Mrs
| / rost, land desire for their children the
| Denetits aud privileges of an education
| Berea college strives to reach the fam
| lies in its section of country. not only
through the 1850 students who come to
| the institution, but by going to the homes
| with books in hand and sowing the seed
| of instruction"
The meeting was held for the purpose
| of interesting those who might help
| toward raising the S1195O0 still needed
| to enable the college to carry on it's
mountain work unimpaired and to estab..
| lish Il separate negro school. The new
| law compelling separate schools for
blacks and whites in Kentucky came as
| great trial to the school just as It had
| begun to feel able to fulfill its mission
Mr.. Carnegie has given 100000 toward
the so-called adjustment fund" of S4O0,-
000-New York Tribune
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| The Summer Girl
Another good place for observing the
| universal American princess is a subur-
ban town-near any great city-and pref
| erably a drug store IN a well to do resi-
dence district A summer evening is
the time to choose. The princess must
have her soda water at frequent inter-
| eals. and she must go to the drug store
/ to get it. In q certain prosperous suburb