New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
Z As SETF> rs PRACTGSED I'm RURAL PARTS
"I'm Doing the Washing and the
Rest of the County is Mimdins
Its Own Business" RetOrts One
Practical Woman.

- in - to - bed" Peggy disapD.,,..
through the screen door and aeesn,.s
her punishment.
We had come across the line g..
the Sandgate Valley into the yall.v :,
the Batten Kill. We left dusty t;u,
ways and encountered the hard assL.l.
Of state roads, rich bottom land. ,,,..
roofs to the barns, silos on the far,
and houses so prosperous looking Ia,
we wondered whether they were Gee,
pied by dilettante farming gen,lem.,
from the city.
The suffrage club Of the coun,rysis.
was an expression of the efficiency 4,
the women. Mrs. Rice, the presidep,
boosted two stone pillars at the Or.
trance 70 her farm, a wide stone porc,
striped awnings lowered over the VIZ,
dows, red furniture on the porch .,
electric button on the door A yietrol,
in the parlor had not yet banished n.
crayon enlargements on the walls a,
the crocheted tides on the chairs. Ws
left her large, modern stone hou. !,
the midst of opulent fields, and wen, "a
the house Of Mrs. Hill. She came in,o
suffrage as long ago as she can remen.
Der, through the object lesson Of ,
voteless mother struggling 70 rear 8
large family and succes sfullv nm =
farm alone. There was nothing new IA
the environment OF a suffrage move.
ment to her. II has the historic posi.
ton with her that Home Rule has IN
Ireland. She has no sympathy with !,
and sometimes intolerance when /,
does not touch her own experience
She is for equal pay for teachers. bg,
her sister was a teacher. She is for
married teachers, but the same sis.
ter got married. She was agairs,
militancy and prohibition. They
had both hurt the suffrage cause
She had no interest DO factory
women voting. She was even antae.
onistic 10 the new canning laws. She
was an employer Of labor herself in
the haying fields where "the men have
10 get the hay in before D., sp0ils. no
matter how long they WORK" She 81.
cuscd herself 10 look after the dinner.
THE farmhands will be coming in
soon and / can't make them wait. 4
they don't get good meals they can,
work" She spoke for the community
when she said: There axe a number
of women around here who are run.
ming farms as well as bringing I'd
children and they all DO 70 as well as,
If not better than, their husbands did.
The best housekccpers ere Inc ones
that belong % our suffrage club 4
woman can make penny 20 further
than a man any time Nan can't vote
for women. II women and their hus-
bands agreed about everything. they
wouldn't get along for q miaUte. Cur
suffrage club and The grange get PEG.
pie so they can get u3 and tell their
ideas. In meeting whore you had
some educated person 90 speak. maybe
every one would feel ashamed 20 get
up and say anything But in our
club every one know every one else.
and so they get up and tell their ideas
and get so they can talk real vel.
People are just sort Of sufragst3
around here or else they're not You
see we can't entertain more than th.r-
ty-fve or forty members and We don.
take in many new ones. because no
one has more than that amount Of
silver and dishes to 90 around"