The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-04-15
The Colony Diary
Being Daily Report Of Colony Life 40 LIano.

Wednesday. April ,. - "A letter to-
day asks the question What do the
women do2" | am we'll acquainted
with many Of the men, but don't know
but little about the women" The wom-
ans work here is very useful; but as
yet women have not entered into such
work as agriculture, horticulture, build
ing and construction, and work Of that
kind, However, | predict they will in
The near future take up trades and
professions, the same as the men. And
why not2 Our women are useful
workers and not ashamedito get out Of
the parasite class. In order to intro
aduce the women to the inquirer, we will
start with the poultry farm, where Mrs
Linn and Mrs. Rooney work with their
husbands in building up the poultry
department. Over at the dairy we find
Mrs. Baldwin and Miss Cryer who
both help with the general dairy work.
Miss Cryer expects to make dairying a
study and fit herself to become teach
er in this line. This you see is the
starter for women in the farm work
AT the school we have Mrs Martin,
Mrs. Green and Myrtle Kemp. Mrs.
Martin is a general teacher in the
school; Myrtle has charge of the Mon
Hessori kindergarten and Mrs. Green
helps in the cooking classes and do
nestle science. At the hotel Mother
Crawford presides and starts her day
about 4:30 am. by getting breakfast,
assisted by Mrs. Ferree. Later Mrs.
Babb and Mrs. Synogfound get dinner
and are relieved in the afternoon by
Mrs, Matt, Mrs. Downs, and Mrs.
Reeves, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Ed. Mer-
rill also help to prepare the tables Tor
meals and Mrs. S. Merrel does the
chamber work. AT the laundry Mrs,
Beevers has charge (of her husband,
foo), and is assisted by Mrs. Kemp,
Mrs. Marchick, Mrs. Mcconnell, Mrs;
Nash, who keep our clothes clean and
mended, and they have an enormous
lot of work right now, too. At the
print shop Mrs. Cantrell and Rose Bel
eohradsky help the men to get out our
papers each week and do the other
print shop work, such as being print
.ers' devils" etc, AT the sewing room
Mrs. Rhodes has charge and is assist
ed by Mrs. Laangridge, Mrs. Jaques'
Mrs. Lee. Mrs. Loutrell does mendlns
IN her home. They do all the Colony
sewing of all kinds. At the store Mrs
Gaddis and Mrs. Sanders work each
sday, their various duties ranging from
assisting the baker to running the store
and the men who work there. At the
General office, Mrs. Dougherty, Mrs.
Norgard, Mrs. Gault and Gertrude
West keep themselves useful in various
Jobs. Mrs. Cryer has just started d, to
spin cotton and she is assisted by Mrs.
WRIGHT. Mrs. Montrose, Mrs. King
Mrs, Smock and Mrs. Busick and Mrs
Scbarrer are taking care OF young
Babies. Mrs. Cuno is our Librarian and
is assisted by Gertrude West. Mrs
Tackett is not working at present
These women are all performing use
full service and of course get assist
ance from our larger girls. The cook
ing Of meals, waiting on tables, work
ing at the laundry, doing the chamber
work. are most useful and honorable
positions in our community, and any
woman-who turns up her nose at these
useful occupations is out Of luck here;
Music tonight became intoxicated ana
rampant. Beginning with the mand0-
lin club we ran thru the scale band
orchestra and choral practices. Any
one who desires to learn music can
oet lust what he or she wants and
without much effort and without ca5n.
Sounds funny, but is true, just the
same.
Thursday, April 8. - 4 beautiful
sunshiny day. and all nature smiles,
Our gardeners have caught the dis
ease and as | look around see the
opening also enlarging in the Y, faces :
i our farmers. Now, if old Jgp
will give US two weeks Of such weather
we will promise TO get our corn; cane
and peanuts planted. Possibly the
sorghum and peas might also be pe si m
We'll, Thurman. Patton. Benton Solo-
none, Gault and Messenger are IN the
Garden early to-day. It may be they
are trying to catch the late worms worms
but suspect they are there to push
this garden work. We are sure sssans
a nice supply Of fresh vegetables each