Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-25


amazed to .ssee
this lively bit of Western
suddenly deposited in
the midst of an Eastern newspaper
office. Bud. the companion of this
10, 000-mile jaunt, or, as our brother
grammarians would say, 1.-The active
agent" Of the trip. paved the ground
outside and wondered to what tor
lures we were subjecting his mis-
tress.
Suffrage Question Is Liked.
81 find thai most of your Eastern
women like me to tell them of suf-
frage in my country" began the
Cowgirl" removing her belt and dis
playing a life-sfze gun, the sight OF
which was anything but soothing to
the nerves.
you know l come from the mother
country Of woman suffrage, Wyom-
ing. Women have been. voting there
since 1868, and the condition of. both
the women and the State is the
strongest argument for the enfran-
chisement of the sex. The women
handle school and similar questions
almost entirely. and the knowledge
they must have to deal intelligently
with this and other political situa-.
tons causes them at an early age to
take a broad interest in what is going
on about them, They read the pa
pers, not as most women do, with
their attention riyeted On the society
and woman's pages alone, but with "a
careful study of the editorials and
the political stories. Every morning
the papers are read in the schools,
and the big questions are discussed
by the pupils.
No Better Homes Than in Wyoming.
II know you have often heard men
say that woman suffrage destroys
the homes. 1 don'teknow where you
could find better homes, more earnest
housewives, more conscientious moth
ers, than in my State. They do not
spend all their time discussing poll
tics. They go to political gatherings
the way they woul4 go to any other
meeting. These gatherings are very
quiet and orderly and generally end
with a dance, never with a booze
fest
1.-THE women of the West are not
believers in militant measures. They
know that their work will be hard,
even with the ballot, il the men axe
against them. They go about gaining
their ends quietly. As one of the in
after he had been converted by his
daughters:
THE women were SO goldarn lady,
like about it, ] just had to give in"
Miss Claire is a mite of a girl, four
feet eleven inches tall, and "a pounds,
fat or thin, just as you prefer it.
but, my, I'm healthy, she said.
1--WE had just one days illness on my
entire trip of over a year and a half.
The open air is my physician, and a
mighty good m he is. If some of
these city women who are always
complaining of not feeling fit would
come out to the ranch with me and
ride horseback, I'm sure they'd soon
be strong enough to undertake any
thing. Just feel this muscle. No, !
never wore a corset in my life, and I
can don a princess dress as we'll as
any woman.
Buy Cheaper Hat and Get q Horse.
when / advise some of the girls to
ride horseback they complain that
they can't afford a horse, and yet
those same girls will pay forty-ive
dollars for n hat That would buy
a good pony out in my country, amt
mere a hundred would certainly do 1t.
Tf / have one street suit and a compile
of divided skirts and Bud has all a
pony needs. I'm perfectly happy"
Miss Claire never rides ~side-saddle,
both for Buds sake and her own. for
it would hurt Buds back to bear ali
the weight on one side, and she
and down" She has ridden as far as
eighty-six miles in one day, and that,
I hear, Is some" feat.
"At every ranch in my journey I
was treated with the utmost respect
and courtesy. The captain of a band
of rustlers turned his private camp
over to me when / stopped there. Be-
fore / left the next day be put his
hand on Buds saddle.
al Hadn't Seen a Thing.
what have you SEEM he asked.
~ have not seen a thing 1 an
swered, and we shook hands on it.
THAT was my word, which in the
West is "a mans bond. that 1 would
not reveal anything I had learned
at the camp. If l had broken my
word ~andreported the rustlers one Of
their members would certainly have
tracked me down."
"Rustlers." tender doot) readers.
are men who not only covet their
neighbours horses, but under the
of night take actual possession of
them.
with no nourishing of trumpets or
playing of bands to herald them they