The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-12
|TARTs FARM TO
/ AID POOR GIRLS
1n Belmont's Undertaking Turns
wan City Girls Into Healthy
Happy Maud Mullers.
Nv W. q. SHEPHERD.


. NEW YORK. May 12.--Can women
b made as strong as men SO tney "a. .sn
take their places beside men III '"e
world?
Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont, suffrage
leader, wants 10 know. she tninAs
the answer Is yes.
To prove her theory she has con-
verted large part OF her estate on
Long Island into farm to be uiied
b0 girls.
1--WE started too late this year" said
Mrs. Belmont. But next year l am
Going to have the girls taught plowine
F, and having and all other field work
such work is not too heavy for girls
when they become accustomed TO IL
or course there may be some girls
constitutionally weak, who cannot &c
II. but for experienced hands II wouic
be easy. This year We have had u
, hire some men to help us, but mex
season, | am sure, Brookholt Will DC
an Adamless Eden. Strong. healthfuI
eirls will be supporting themselves
on this farm by the fall OF 1919"
All the girls who go TO Brookhoi'
are given to understand that good
hard work is before them.
They arise at $50 In the morning
Breakfast is at Z. At 8 o'clock they
start for the garden. Some OF them
trim and care for fruit trees. Pota-
n to understandable seven acres
land truck gardens give them plenty
Of work to do. ;,
II never knew | could eat so much"
said a tanned girl of IL, who two
weeks before had been flower maker
IA q New York sweat shop, as she rose
from the dinner table.
.fone Of us ever MIXED COW I'M
al three weeks ago." said one or the
mixers. Now we race every night
20 see which can get the pail niied
flrst."
At 6 O'Clock the days work is end
Cd. BY $3.50 the girls have changed
their boomers and sailor blouses Tor
house clothes and have been through
cool baths. Then comes supper.
Most Of the girls gained from four
to nine pounds within the first three
weeks. They all have stories TO tell
a. muscles as sore as boils and or
Mastered hands when they first began.
1--WE never wear corsets In the gar
dcns.- said one Of the girls. And
you can't imagine how uncomfortable
corset is, after you have been work
1nx In the fields without one"
Only the spring sunshine, so far.
has dripped onto the girls, yet they
have dandy tans."
ssDo you want to learn how TO make
hay and to plow?" | asked one girl.
well, II / keep on growing IN
strength as I have this past few
weeks, blowing will be play for me,
after q while. Gee didn't know
what living was until now. ! didn't
used to know there was any such per-
son as myself when was a stenogra-
pher I'm Just beginning to get &C
Quainted with myself
do you suppose all girls would be
happy on farm?"
Amy healthy girl would be happy.
don't know anything about equal
rights with men and all this talk about
our being able to do as much work as
they do, but do know that | never
was so happy and comfortable In my
life, and that I want to stay here all
this summer and all next summer
Really, want farm OF my own"
This year Mrs. Belmont is playing
the girls smail salary. Next year
Dhe thinks Brookhold will be cooper
alive.
Not q single girl who has started
on the farm has quit 1t, though any
one OF them may do SO II she pleases,
on "a hours notice.