University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-09-19
THREE GIRLS WHO ARE FARMERS,
These Energetic Cleveland Maids Hire
the "Hands,, and Plan the croos.5


These Energetic Cleveland Maids Hire
the "Hands. and Plan the Crops.
What would you do if you had your
choice, supposing that you are a girl,
go to balls and teas. and wear SPAR
ingly. frilly gowns, made your calls
in an electric srunabout, and have a
box at the opera, or run farm, cut
thirty acres OF hay and sell it at the
best market, break your own horses,
take your pigs TO the. county seat to
sell them, hire the men that work
for you, fire them if necessary, and
drive q big touring car at breakneck
speed or ride a broncho over the farm
to superintend it? =
= That may sem rather starting
question to be asked, and it may be
that the second alternative seems a
-trifie too impossible to consider. You
may think that neither you, nor, any
other girl. could dc it even If it wer:
chosen. But that's where you are
wrong. 1t has been chosen, and the
girls that chose it have made good at
1t, to such extent that one almost for
gets that it is hard thing to do.
The girls who havs chosen this rath-
er strenuous and unusual, but to them
joy-producing, career of practical
farmers, are Nellie, Mary and Mildred
MacGregor. whose father, A. H. Mac
Gregor. died six years ago, and left
them farm of one hundred good.
rich acres, two miles west of Geneva,
Ohio. The girls were from 10 to Is
years OF age at that time.
I, Mrs. MacGregor quietly took up the
business of managing the farm, and
did it in such way that she made
the girls love it as she herself did.
: Before long they were relieving her
of the care and work and in a short
time each had taken upon herself "a
certain part of the responsibility and
of the real work as well. Thus these
girls emerged into practical and in
telligent farmers.
Nellie, the eldest, reserved for her.
self the helping of her mother to make
a real and delightful home. She is in
terested in the outdoor part of the
farm, but the house is her especial do
main. and when she was seen last
week in the big, airy, 11-room house,
wearing a dainty. lavender frock, she
did seem, from the layender ribbon
tied around her fluffy hair to the high
heeled shoes on her feet, the epitome
of a home-maker, the kind of a home.
maker that makes you think of real,
jolly, care-frse home.
Mary. considered by her sisters as
the prettiest one of the family, who,
by the way, are all pretty, whatever.
they themselves may think, has the
fruit and animals as her part of the
farm management.
The real worker of the trio, how
evef, is Mildred, who "just loves 1T
ALL but gives her undivided attention
to. the crops and the men that SOW,
NOW and harvest them. She is ths.
one who takes the burden of the pos
sible thunder storm because the hay
isn't all in yet. She is the one who
cuts the grain with her hands if the
men are not doing it with the rapidity
she thinks necessary for the best in
terests of "the farm" as it is known
from Buffalo to Chicago. And Mil
dred is not as yet 20 years old.
The girls have never had any trou-
bic with the management of the men
they have hired. The men understand
that they are not girls playing at
farming, that it is just AZ much of
business to them as though they were
men who. depended upon this for their
livelihood. They know just what they
want done and how they want it done.
and after while the msn learn that
the way these girls want thing done
is usually the way it ought to be done.
Leader.
King Manuel ana the Goatherd.