Evening journal., 1911-02-08
CIRCUS GIRLS
NOW RUN FARM
Differ In Nationality and in
Taste, But All Are
Happy
POOLED SAVINGS ~
TO GET The START

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Feb. 8.-Helen
Englehart, one time sharp-shooter
and champion swordswoman of the
world" Betty Rose, former hurdle
rider and strong woman with Mr..
Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth"
and Marie De We're, who has been
tripping her way through life in
Oriental dances and swallowing
swords with as much apparent relish
as an epicure devours raw oysters
have spent the best years Of their
lives beneath the big top" or before
the fOot-lights, and as a matter of
choice have settled down to make
home for themselves on a Rhode
Island farm.
IL would be difficult to find a more
incongruous trio or one better adapt-
ed FOR carrying out the plans which
the "circus girls" have formulated.
They differ in nationality, in personal
appearance and tastes and their pro-
fessional careers were in no way
alike.
This dissimilarity may have been
responsible for bringing them togeth-
or. and II there is any truth i'm the
old saw relative to the inability of
likes to agree the farmhouse should
be an idyllic shack OF perpetual bliss
as far as its domesticity business is
concerned. For contrary to the gem
eral opinion Of their neighbors they
are not sisters, neither are they Ger
mans. One is a native of American,
another Of England and the third of
Austria, and I'm practically everything
with the exception of being former
show girls and having a desire to
provide a home for themselves in
their old age they are as widely SEN
arated in their tastes as are the coun-
tries in which they we're born.
Take Rosy View Of Life.
But withal there are few hearth
stones I'm the old South county about
which there is quite as much jollifca-
tion as there appears to be in the
circus girls retreat on the hill No
one within the township pretends to
take roster view of life. and native
tillers OF the soil, who seldom get a
glimpse of the great outside world to
make them dissatisfied, are probably
less contented with their lot in life
than is the Strong woman" Sword
swallower" and champion fencer,"
who are settling down TO spend the
evening of life in the strange environ
ment
While in Boston Miss De We're usu-
ally boarded at a house which was
run by the Misses Engelhart and
Rose and with the idea of providing
a home which she could cpil her
own she suggested TO the others that
they club together and purchase a
farm.
The suggestion WAS favorably re-
ceived. Helen Engelhart, who is
credited by her companions as being
a wonderful cook and having q re-
markable head for business, saw the
wisdom Of the proposed change. On
farm which they could manage by
themselves they would be assured of
much better living than they could
get in the large cities and the income
derived from their savings would
have greater purchasing power in
the country.
Pooled Their Savings.
They pooled their savings, purchas-
ed a 4O-acre farm on the crest of
Teffts Hill and are proceeding to set
tie down. The work on the farm logi-
cally divided itself Miss Englehart
with her head for business matters
and skill in the culinary department
was made chief cook and general man
ager. Betty Rose, with her great
strength, was the logical candidate for
outdoor work which ordinarily falls
to the lot OF the boss farmer and hired
man. Miss De We're found congenial
employment as goddess of the poultry
yards, and, between caring for tho
hens, ducks, rabbits and a kennel OF
French poodles. finds little time wher
at home to indulge I'm the luxury OF
somber soliloQuies on the passing oI
time
They moved into the farm house late
last fall, hung out a sign, "No hell
wanted or needed" and spent the win.
ter repairing the house and the farm
building and laying plans for the sum
mer Had they taken into consider.
alton the fact that the season opens
late and closes early on Tefft's Hill
perhaps they would have planned diff.
ferently.
As 1t was they went into genera
farming, but found that when theil
vegetables were ready for the market
the nearby stores were glutted and
the bottom had fallen out OF prices
They have raised more than enough
vegetables to keep them all winter
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