The Delta independent., 1909-10-22
About Women.

AOOut w omen.
A young German girl who recently
came to live with relatives in Denver,
brought with her large box filled with
potatoes because she is fond of tubers
and was told that in America we raised
nothing but sweet potatoes.
Mrs. Edwarts C. Dodd of Laredo,
Texas, has earned distinction as a farm
es. She has made profit this season
of little over $50, 900 from 1876 acres
of land Ilante ed to Bermuda onions
She is the only woman Bermuda onion
farmer in the word.
Mrs. T. Woods is one of the best and
most cf arming type of the cattle girls
fine hoi ses and carried off more premi-
ums for skillful riding than any woman
in Texss. Therefore, she is Justly
called the queen Of the range"
Cooking" said May Irwin at din
ner in New York, sis cure for nerv-
Gus prostration. This cure is cheaper
than European trip. 1t commends
itself better to husbands, too For my
part, like the kind of woman who
prefers the cooking to the travel cure.
Deliver me from the kind of woman
that is too big for her job"
In the death of Mrs. Mary Ann
Boone at Walsenburg, Huerfano county,
last week, Colorado loses one of her
best known women. She was eighty
six years of age having been born
March IL, 1923. in Kentcky, and came
to Colorado in 1860. She was the widow
Of ha Loft sa1
son of the famous Daniel Boone and for
whom the town of Bonneville in Pueblo
county was named.
Women must blush every time they
hear of the actions of the English suf-
fragettes. A London dispatch says:
The suffragettes have pursued Mr..
Asquith, the premier, into his vacation
privacy. They climbed the windows of
Lympne castle while the premier and
his family were at dinner, throwing
stones through the windows and shout
ing suffragist messages. Then they
made their escape in the darkness.
Good housekeeping has more to do
with domestic happiness than young
lovers dream of. We believe these
times need women whose most beauti-
full work will be done inside their own
doors. Without good housekeeping the
romance will soon go out of marriage.
No matter what a girls accomplish
ments may be, her education is incom-
plete if she has not some knowledge of
bake-ology. boil-oloRy, roast-ology.
stitch-ology and mend-ology. Even if
she should never be required 10 do the
work herself she ought to know wheth-
er it is done in a proper manner.
A woman there was, and she wrote
for the press, as you or | might do
She told how to cut and sew dress,
and how to cook many a savory mess.
but she never had done it herself, /
Ruess-but none of her readers knew.
She told how to comb and dress the
hair, and how out of barrel to make q
chair-'twould adorn any parlor and
give it an air-we thought the tale was
true. Oh. the days we spent and the
nights we spent, with hammer and saw
and tack, in making a chair in which
DO enc would sit, in which no one could
possibly sit, without crick in the
back.
The country could not get along
without a sheep queen and the throne
is occupied by Mrs. G. C. Moore of
Wyoming. on whose Kirby Creek ranch
35, 600 head of sheep were sbeared this
year with an average of eight pounds
of wool which sold at 22la cents a
pound, which makes handsome income
for the good woman. She is the richest
woman in Wyoming. worth about one
half million dollars in sheep, lands and
real estate in Casper, Cheyenne, Los
Angeles and other cities. She has a
winter home at Los Angeles, where she
lives four or five months every year,
and spends her summers on the range,