The Washington herald., 1915-12-12

silk. with a high collar and soft white
silk bandanna instead Of q tie.
But for all that. she is decidedly "femi-
nine in appearance and in every move.
and the exceeding alertness of her face
and manner is piquant rather than
mannish. She is breezy" but only the
persons talking to her know it. Onlook-
ers two feet away would never connect
her with the overworked adjective
'I think myself they Just thought that
they'd like q woman in the place. Mrs.
Roberts insists, when people compel her
to talk about herself and her election
rather than about the $40. 900 she wants
to raise for a sanitarium. They knew
was never scared of anything in my life
and so they chose me. And then, too
they thought 1t was a good joke to put
over on John Yoast. You see he's a cow
puncher, oh. an awfully good cow-punch-
er, and he was after the job, too, and
they thought 1t would be good joke
to beat him with a woman. John has al
ways lived there and they like to joke
him.
Gracious. Of course I like the Job. I
wouldn't have taken 1t If hadn't. There
was only one other that I'd have liked
better. That was deputy United States
marshal I really wanted that. l should
have loved to be a deputy United States
marshal And think / could have got
1t, but the marshals wife doesn't like
me-
New York would kill me. The air is
depressing and depressing and no one
ever has time to think. Why. my near
est town is Nogales. It's forty-ive miles
away. and riding down there in the morn
ing / have plenty of time to think about
all sorts of things and get the air and
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all at the same time.
And the western men-they're great!
or course the cow-punchers and the
miners don't get into town very often
and so when they do they cut loose and
have a time. But they stay a few days
and 60 back. And they know how to treat
the women at home when they get there.
Now here. as ! understand from all the
things I've been told since arrived. the
men 60 out and cut loose and then come
home and raise Sam Hill there. They
don't do that in Arizona! Now that they
have prohibition down there. 1t cuts out
some of the drinking-not all, but some.
But don't believe in prohibition, though.
when 1 see the throngs of girls and
women on the streets here, can't under
stand 1t. l can't see why they stay.
was on 34th st. this noon and l never
saw such crowds of them in all my life.
Women, women, women! Old and young.
pretty and plain, but tired. every single
one of them tired to death. judging from
their looks. I asked the woman with me
where they came from and she said most
ly from the shops and factories. They
were Just going and coming from lunch.
"It's awful. She told me how much
they got, most Of them, and how hard
they worked, and I've talked to a lot of
girls and women since, who work in the
shops or have businesses of their own,
and it's the same story everywhere. Hard
work. tired out, not enough money to be
comfortable and happy, always worrying,
forced to dress beyond their means
whether they are wage earners or on
good salary.
Its awful. Why do they stay?
why don't they come out to our big
western country. where they can breathe
and ride. and look way up into the sky
and way down into the canyons. and live.
and stop worrying. and grow young?
"They could make a living on a farm
or a ranch. A lot of women have done 1t.
Not as many as ought to. But those that
come and are willing to work as hard as
they do here Just for while have made
1t 60. And they don't have to buy a lot
Of clothes. We live in divided skirts
there.
And they'd all marry. Oh. every one
of them would marry. And she'd marry
a fine man, too. Yes, in spite of my
being in public life. / think the thing for