Women on the Prairie 



phones, and if we could get a couple of good 

 harvests, folks would begin putting up good 

 frame-houses, with hot-air heating systems, and 

 perhaps oil-gas lighting." 



" I guess we want good bams first," said a 

 more pessimistic speaker. 



" When I want a wife," remarked Sunny Jim, 

 with youthful ardour, " I guess she's coming, 

 house or no house." 



" It's all very well talking," said one of the 

 older men present, " but in my opinion, what 

 the Government should have done, when they 

 set aside land for education, was to make grants 

 for the provision of medical and nursing facilities." 



" Reckon they thought the women that were 

 coming out here were just like cattle," said 

 another ; " maybe women's votes would teach 

 'em different." 



" I met a man in Saskatoon," said the former 

 speaker, " who called himself a medical man ; 

 he allowed that the folks out here are of little 



count, and must be prepared to die. They 

 come from hell and nowhere,' was the way he 

 ut it." 



I" He can't have had much sense, anyway," 

 emarked Bob ; " they are some of the salt of 

 he earth, and he was too thick to see it. Be- 

 ides," he went on, " I guess he was one of those 



