The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-11-05
WOrnan'S World


cEssFUL WOMAN FARMER, WHO
ADVISES OTHER CITY WOMEN
TO BECOME FARMERS.
NINE. YUKIO OZAKI, wife of the
mayor of Tokyo, says that Japa4
nese women have no desire for suffrage
She thinks they never will have. They
are by nature content to let the men
boss the government
"Our women have progressed greatly
in the last thirty years, along educa4
tional lines especially" she remarked
recently. Usually our women are mod+
est and retiring, and because of this
visitors have the idea sometimes that
we are not very smart. We are very
earnest in charitable and educational
work. but we have not yet entered poli4
tics. 1 believe that women should havd
equal rights. with men in marriage and
divorce laws, but let it stop there. Lee
the woman keep her home serene and
untroubled for the man who has to
struggle with the world"
D. b.
A Chicago student of social condit
lions says that no woman whose hus!
band is earning less than $500 a yeai
can afford to keep a maid. She sayt
the maid habit is responsible for mor@
divorces than one supposes, for shs
runs the family into debt and gives the
young wife too much leisure for this
amount of money she has to spend.
There's something to her opinion if one,
stops to think about it.
The farm is much more attractive
han the city is the verdict of several
women who have tried living in both
places.
The latest city woman to make sue
cess in the country is Miss Isabel Nc!
isaac, who with her sister owns about
ZEN acres of land near Benton HarborI
Mich.
For years Miss McIsaac had been al
trained nurse. Finally she tired OF
working for others and decided to set
up in business as fruit farmer.
She has been most successful and adj
rises other women to follow her ex-
Imple.
Farm life is suitable for a womana
provided the woman is suited for the
sarm. There is no reason why thei
tight woman" says she, Should not
succeed on the farm. In fact, havei
been told that one of the most skillfuli
farmers in the United States is a wo-;
nan who owns a large place in VirI
ginia. / have watched operations on
many farms where / feel certain VOL
men could have managed things bet
ter They certainly couldn't have done
much worse.
Success on a farm is a question Of
Intelligence. There is many farmer
tvho does too much work with his feet
and not enough with his head. When
we purchased our place it was good
example of the results of shiftless farm
lag. The place had been rented, and
The soil was depleted. During the forty
tr fifty years since it had been home;
Iteaded it is doubtful ii anything had
been put back into the soil. For years
the tenants simply took out whatever
Ihe ground would yield and did not con-,
tern themselves about the future.
THE trees on our place had outlived
their usefulness when we bought the
bround, SO our first work was to rel
lace them with better ones and to
fuild up the SOIL We have used ferti-
Hlzers and have plowed under clover,l
: etch and similar crops, and it is won-I
ferful to watch the change that is go-i
Ing on. Our trees have become thrifty.
Ind the foliage shows the results of!
proper treatment. 1t is necessary toi
epray five times during season, and
u a farmer does not understand when
Ind why to make the applications hei
twin not succeed. This is one reasonl
fvhy some men fail. Il
! For those who are adapted to such
q life nothing can be more enjoyable
shan a home like ours. Like all the
tthers OF this sort who have once tasted
The enjoyments of country life, we do
bot believe there is anything that would
induce US to return to the city" 81