NOTE AND COMMENT. 
Ox a newsboys’ lunch counter in this city we find 
the following : 
DofKhnatB on sent. 
Apple Py too sent. 
It is a good thing for the newsboys that cooks can mix 
cooking ingredients better than they can their letters. 
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Very little interest seems to be taken in the subject 
of the children’s meals. Why is it? Is their welfare 
of such little consequence that no special pains are 
taken to prepare healthful foods for them ? The hen 
and the cow must have their rations according to a 
certain formula. Bat then eggs and milk are of more 
value than happy, healthy childhood. 
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There are still closed doors at which women knock 
in vain. The faculty of the University of Virginia has 
refused to allow women to enter the academic course. 
The Supreme Court ot New Jersey has refused to 
allow Miss Mary Philbrook to be examined for admis¬ 
sion to the bar. The principal reason given for these 
actions is, that there is no precedent for admitting 
women. There never wdll be a precedent until those 
deciding such questions have some common sense to 
apply to the matter and render judgment accordingly, 
instead of searching musty pages of the past to settle 
the actions of to-day. By the way, which sex is it 
that is too conservative to be given free scope in pub¬ 
lic affairs ? 
WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE. 
HOW IT WORKS IX COLORADO. 
1. Do many women care to vote ? 2 Do they usually vote the same 
ticket as their husbands, or brothers ? 8. In what public questions 
do they take most Interest? 4. In a Kcneral way, what will be the 
decided public advantages or disadvantages of woman's sutTrage ? 
Vote for the Person Rather Than the Party. 
Although Colors do, as yet, has had only local elec¬ 
tions, the women have shown considerable interest in 
voting, in some places nearly as many women’s votes 
being polled as men’s. To some extent, they vote the 
same ticket as their husbands or brothers. In the 
local election in Denver, they took considerable inter¬ 
est in political questions. In the towns, the interest 
was centered on license or anti-license. They showed 
intense interest on the temperance question, many 
working at the polls all day. We think woman’s suf¬ 
frage in Colorado will have a tendency to purify poli¬ 
tics. The women vote more for man or woman than 
party. mrs. s. h. d. 
Berthoud, Col. 
Studying the Election Laws. 
Here, in Colorado, the “ additional burden ” of being 
voters is one which many of our best women were very 
reluctant to assume. But to their credit be it said that 
since suffrage has become a law in our State, the 
women are taking hold of the matter in a commend¬ 
able way in the organization of “ Women’s Non-Parti¬ 
san Suffrage Leagues ” in different parts of the State. 
These leagues are purely educational in their charac¬ 
ter. We have one in our community which meets 
twice a month. We are now studying the “ election 
laws ” of our State. Also Roberts’s Rules of Order, so 
that we may be able, if called upon, to take part in 
political meetings and conventions in an intelligent 
and business-like manner. mrs. x. j. a. 
Colorado. 
A Fair Estimate Not Possible Yet. 
It is a little too early yet to make a true estimate 
of the real merit or demerit of the effect of woman’s 
suffrage, for this reason : The country women have 
not yet had opportunity to exercise their rights; there 
will be no elections of any importance before fall. It 
was in the country precincts that the women had the 
smallest majorities and, in some instances, were de¬ 
feated in this part of the State. I am anxious to know 
the result of our next fall’s elections. In cities and 
small towns, in this part of the State, the Law and 
Order League was successful in electing exception¬ 
ally good men and women to all the offices. 
Women that were very indifferent last fall as to 
whether the privilege was given them to vote, were 
very anxious to vote this spring. Since the women 
were the organizers of the Law and Order League, and 
since they were successful in electing their candidates, 
I would rather think that the husbands and brothers 
voted as the women did. They are interested in all 
that their husbands and brothers are, and this inter¬ 
est is what has told plainly in the recent elections. In 
a general way, among the country people, the vote 
will be more intelligent, for, in the majority of fami¬ 
lies, so far as I am able to judge, the women are more 
intelligent and better read than the men. It will be 
ot advantage to the women, because it will be a branch 
in their education that has heretofore been sadly neg¬ 
lected ; they will not neglect the opportunity thus 
given to supply it. mrs .j. a. b. 
Montrose, Col. 
Why Some Politicians Disapprove. 
Ours is a farming locality, yet few women are in¬ 
different. Most of those belonging to the Grange 
signed the petition for it. A few objected because 
their husbands did; the husbands, being Republicans, 
seemed to object principally because the small right 
of suffrage restored for a brief season to women last 
fall (that of voting for school commissioner) was done 
through a Democratic legislature, and it will not do, 
you know, for the party out of power to indorse the 
doings of the one that is in. The majority of Woman’s 
Christian Temperance Union women, of course, favor 
woman’s ballot, here as elsewhere. 
Altogether our county—a rural one—sends a fair 
showing of fair petitioners for equal suffrage in pro¬ 
portion to population. The strongest objectors, here¬ 
abouts, are in the villages—of the feminine gender at 
least; some think it would lessen girls’ matrimonial 
chances for them to advocate equal suffrage. They 
seem, in common with some masculine intellects, un¬ 
able to comprehend that exercising the right of suffrage 
would not take all of the wit, wisdom, time and 
strength that a woman possesses, to the exclusion of 
all other duties and pleasures, any more than it does 
for a man ; or that woman would not be less, but 
better, fitted for the duties and responsibilities of 
domestic life if she knew something of the laws by 
which she and hers are governed. We are very glad 
of the position that the “dear old Rural” takes on 
this momentous question. jaxet mckerwix. 
New York. 
A WOMAN FRUIT GROWER. 
HEALTH AND PROFIT IX A GARDEN. 
In the suburbs of New Haven, Conn., lie a number 
of small fruit farms whose owners are wide-awake, 
intelligent farmers and gardeners. One among them 
deserves especial mention, because its owner is a 
young, unmarried woman, whose experience seems to 
me to be a sufficient answer to numerous letters I re¬ 
ceive, from women who, as widows or daughters, have 
been left with farms upon their hands, and are seek¬ 
ing advice as to what is best to do with them. As a 
matter of interest to the general public, and as a prac¬ 
tical illustration of what may be done by any woman 
similarly situated, I interviewed Miss Jennie Wooding 
of Hidden View Farm, and present her statement of 
facts for the consideration of Rural readers. 
Miss Wooding was the daughter of Vinus Wooding, 
and for some years before his death was his most 
efficient assistant in the care of orchard and garden. 
There are 14 acres of land, and the principal crops are 
apples, pears, grapes, currants, quinces, raspberries, 
peaches, nuts, vegetables for home use, and hay and 
pasture for two horses and two cows. From 75 to 100 
fowls are also kept on the place. Though Miss Wood¬ 
ing does not mention strawberries, I think that for¬ 
merly they were an important crop, and that peaches 
were once grown more extensively than at present. 
Must Be an Overseer. 
Do you have personal oversight of the farm, or is 
that work delegated to an assistant ? ” I asked. 
“I am supposed to have personal oversight of affairs 
at home,” she replied. “ The selling is done in New 
Haven, by an assistant, when I can secure one suffi¬ 
ciently trustworthy, and who has business capacity. 
Otherwise, I have to depend on outside assistance.” 
“ What help do you employ ? ” 
“ A salesman who drives the delivery wagon at $40 
per month and board, an Italian gardener, a boy for 
general work about the place, and a woman in the 
house. I paid over $100 per month and board for four 
persons last year, and yet received very unsatisfactory 
service in some instances. If my employees would 
work for me the same as they would for a man, I 
would be satisfied; but 
hopes of some day finding an honest man who will 
give services equivalent to his wages.” 
“ What are your most profitable crops ? ” 
“ Currants are good. We have none of the newer 
varieties. What we have were bought for the Cherry 
currant, but only a few bushes are true to name. Of 
the half dozen kinds bought under the name of Cherry, 
I like the Versailles best. Quinces are a good crop, 
but they also came mixed. They were bought for 
Orange, but there are three or four varieties. Early 
decay, before the market was ready for them, formerly 
troubled me a great deal, but since the advent of the 
sprayer, that trouble has disappeared. Of apples, the 
Red Astrachan for early, and Baldwin for the main 
crop, are the chief dependence. Williams’s Favorite is 
also a good selling variety. Of raspberries, I grow 
only the Cuthbert. Bartletts are as profitable as any 
other pears, though I sell a good many Buffums, and 
they have always been a favorite variety with me. Of 
grapes. Concord is the market variety, although Pock- 
lington has been a good cropper and sells fairly well. 
I grow a good many other varieties, mainly for home 
use. 
Methods of Cultivation. 
“ What is your method of cultivation ?” 
“ The orchards are plowed in spring and harrowed to 
keep the surface loose until the early fruit interferes. 
As soon as this matures, the trees are mulched with 
salt hay. The currants and raspberries are similarly 
treated. If it were less expensive, I would mulch the 
whole ground between the currants and the raspber¬ 
ries to keep down the weeds and retain moisture. I 
believe in close pruning, and practice it when I can 
get it done with care and judgment. I usually go all 
over the orchards in the early spring, scrape the rough 
bark from the trees and wash with soft-soap suds—if 
I can get it done. Apples are sprayed with Bordeaux 
Mixture, and with London-purple, first early in spring 
before the leaves start, and once two or three weeks 
later until June. I intend to give the pears similar 
treatment this year if I can get the work done. 
Quinces and grapes are also sprayed with Bordeaux as 
soon as the buds swell, and every two weeks there¬ 
after until the fruit interferes. Thinning, I consider 
very important. I don’t like to handle so much infer¬ 
ior fruit; the best is good enough, and I feel that 
proper management would make it nearly perfect.” 
“ Would you, from your experience, advise other 
women to go and do likewise ?” 
“ Emphatically, yes ; if they have any liking for the 
work, and have a little bit of experience, and another 
little bit of business talent. It seems, sometimes, as 
though a woman relative or friend to manage things 
indoors was a necessity, yet I have got along without 
such assistance. We have at least one successful 
woman farmer near here, who was left a widow with 
four children 50 years ago, and is still living at the 
ripe old age of 86. Of course, there is more physical 
labor in managing a farm, than in bookkeeping, 
teaching, dressmaking or other employments usually 
sought by women ; but I cannot see that it is more 
confining as a business, and it is certainly more health¬ 
ful. To me, the work is not unpleasant, and I do not 
believe I would have been living to-day if I had not 
lived so much out-of-doors.” 
“ Do you succeed with poultry ? ” 
“ I have never given the poultry much attention. In 
fact, it has not been cared for in a manner to deserve 
success. I think I can and will make it pay the com¬ 
ing season. Leghorns are my favorites, and they will 
not sit until they get ready, and that is usually too 
late for profit. Am I successful ? Well, I hardly like 
to say. If living comfortably and meeting expenses 
in a business that one likes is success, I suppose I may 
be called successful. If I could obtain such help as I 
would like, I am sura I could be both successful and 
contented. In previous years, I have added materially 
to my bank account; last year, the crops only a little 
more than paid expenses, but of apples and some other 
things I had short crops. This year, I hope to do 
better. I cannot give the total amount of sales for 
when I see and know that 
they do not, I feel that I 
lack government, and it 
frets me. If I hired boys 
or cheap help, I could 
overlook some delinquen¬ 
cies ; but when I pay for 
first-class service, I don’t 
propose to stand over them 
all the time to see that 
my requests are carried 
out. I am not discouraged, 
however, and I live in 
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