Arizona republican., 1910-12-09
WOMEN CONTRIBUTORS
 ID DECEMBER EARTH
They Tell Of the Life Conditions in
 This Valley.

The December number of The Earth, which has been here for a few days, iS the long looked for "Womens Edition, and is not only arnovel but d very in teresting one only five pages of it. however. are devoted to the Salt River valley, the rest of the edition being given over to other section of the Santa Fe southwest. The women have made excellent contributions from all of them The only criticism that can be offered is that if they were not afraid the wemen of this valley when the in Vitation was given them could have furnished enough matter for the whole issue. that would have been just as good reading as those who have vol nntcered. But nov that the begin ming has been made it is likely there will be more responses next time.
 The local contributors to the num- Der are Sharlot M. Hall. territorial his torian: Etta Clifford Young. Lucy H. Yetter and Mrs. J. C. Jackson of PhOe- nix. and Mrs. Emma Demrick of Mesa.
 Miss Hall briefly recOunts -her com ing to Arizona, her long residence here. her ownership of a homestead. the de- development of the territOry's indus tries" and a reference to the territorial schools. Each of these subjects and others touched on are worthy of long article but she has told Of them all by a mere stOry-like reference, written from q woman's viewpoint She has not gone into the conditions of indi- vidual cases, but has spoken os life in the territory at large.
 Mrs. Young contributes an article on Health of Children in the Salt River Valley" This subject has been handled over the nom de plume of "Mirandy." and. without undertaking to give a lot of statistical information or reciting encyclopaedia facts, she tells Ter little story just as Mirandy. one of the plain people" would tell her friends about it in a gossipy sort of a way aft CT having gathered up some information by personal knowledge and then talked with the local doctors about the sub iect. According to the story she has seen them all and secured a concensus of opinion concerning measles, croup,, and stomach troubles ct all and then she puts her fcot down flatly and sums il all up as follows:
 "Livin' out of doors all day, an sleepin' out most of the nights, keeps the little fellows so strong an well. thet even an infection can't keep 'em down long The Lords done his best fur us in the way of sunshine an fresh air. but if poor human critters ain't got no more sense than to stuff the young ones with mince pie, an pickles. an in- fected milk, an canned lobster. they win find not only empty stun mmicks but the graveyard. here or eny place else"
 Mrs. Demrick writes a very concise little article on the advantages of this valley, and especially in or near Mesa City. She alks of her easy life in the east, how she came to come to Arizona, how pleased she is that fortune direct ed her to such a beautiful place of abode and how much attached to the country she has become. She covers the subject of the alleged excessive heat of summer and makes the remark that If the people here would spend as much money to keep cool as the people back east do to keep warm, everybody would he very comfortable" And this after telling of a whole lot of reasons why it is good to live in the Salt River valley.
 Mrs. Yetters article is entitled "A Watcher of the Desert" A part of it is devoted to the chicken industry with recital Of some of her experiences. The rest of it tells of the wonderful possibilities of the various varieties of the cactus plant, respecting which she has become somewhat of an expert. She is not only growing thornless cac- tus, but is experimenting to discover the various uses to which the plant can he put, aside from stock food. and has been rewarded with considerable suc- cess, as she has produced several pleas ing table delicacies.