1012. 
THIS KURAIv NEW-YORKER 
285 
WHAT ONE WOMAN DOES. 
Our nearest neighbor, here in Eastern 
Colorado is a woman who runs a 160- 
acre farm with the help of a young son 
12 years of age and some hired help by 
the day. Her husband is a machinist, 
and works in the railroad shops in Den¬ 
ver. They came here a few years ago 
with very little capital, borrowed the 
money to pay for a relinquishment, 
which was $500, being less than two 
miles from town. Perhaps some eastern 
people do not know what a relinquish¬ 
ment is. Where a person takes a home¬ 
stead and then for some cause does not 
wish to live on it he sells his right to 
another. 1 f improvements have been 
made the price is more. At first she 
and her husband ran the place together, 
but she said he was no farmer, and 
could do better at his trade. They have 
a young daughter of 18 and a son of 15 
years who arc attending high school in 
Denver. The girl graduates this year. 
The father rents rooms and he and the 
two children have their home together, 
the daughter doing the housework, buy¬ 
ing mostly cooked food. The mother is 
well educated; having been an old school 
teacher and a lawyer’s daughter her ad¬ 
vantages for society and education were 
good. The last two years she has made 
a specialty of gardening. The ground 
slopes so she irrigates from the wind 
mill; has a large pipe the length re¬ 
quired and from this pipe are smaller 
rtnes with faucets to turn the water in 
the different directions, each side. Last 
Eall and early Winter she made a reser¬ 
voir in the draw, often driving the team 
while the man held the scraper. It is 
cemented and from this reservoir water 
will be pumped for garden and fruit if 
required. The cabbages she raised last 
year were very fine; such large, hard 
white heads. She made two barrels of 
kraut for their own use and put 25 heads 
in the cellar for Winter use, supplying 
the home in Denver as well. When her 
husband is home, which is perhaps twice 
a month for a day, he works far into the 
night, keeping the machinery, wind mill, 
etc., in working order, which is no small 
item if she had to hire it done. Her cel¬ 
lar was full to overflowing this Fall with 
all sorts of good things from the garden, 
and what the garden stuff bought. She 
keeps hogs to eat up the waste from the 
garden and bought a little corn “to finish 
them,” she says. They would not be 
called fat hogs, but made good eating for 
themselves. 
She began with a few cows, making 
butter. The cows run on the range, and 
she never has bought much feed for 
them until this Winter. She has a sepa¬ 
rator, and now has some 20 head of 
milch cows. She calls them good cows, 
but they are grade Short-horns and 
Angus with two or three Jerseys. The 
last year she has kept the milk at night 
for making butter for the Denver mar¬ 
ket, selling the morning’s milk in town. 
This Winter she has had a large trade 
in cream, so not so much butter was 
made and the cream sold. Storms and 
30 degrees below zero weather make no 
difference; she goes out and milks, for 
she gets more milk than the boys, sho 
says, and most of the time goes with the 
milk in the morning, her son or hired 
man to help in the delivering. She buys 
hay,.sand hay it is called, raised in the 
sand hills, no hay being cut on the hard 
lands last year, owing to the severe 
drought. She gets Alfalfa meal and bran 
to feed with it. Her cows are sheltered 
at night, but run out on (he range in 
all sorts of weather, the ground covered 
with snow and often so frozen that they 
cannot get the buffalo grass, eating Rus¬ 
sian thistles or any weed they can find. 
A horse will paw and get to the grass but 
cattle do not. She has an Angus hull at 
the head of her herd, and is disposed to 
think he will bring up the quantity and 
quality of the milk. There is where she 
will find her mistake in time. 
She finds but little time to read, as 
out of door work takes nearly all her 
time and attention. Last Fall she put in 
her own wheat, riding on the drill. She 
had no help then save her young son, 
who was attending school in town. As 
soon as he was home, his clothes 
changed, lie went for the cows; some¬ 
times it would be late when he found 
them, as they wander on the range. Of 
course he was on a horse; not much 
walking done in this country. A horse 
or pony is always at hand, not only for 
man and boy, but the women and girls 
as well. While the boy cared for the 
team his mother had used she went to 
milking arid then lie helped, the milk 
run through the separator, milk things 
washed and after all that is done supper 
is eaten, just what can be got handy. 
Perhaps the dishes are not washed from 
one day to the next, save the milk 
dishes, which she is particular about. Her 
home keeps itself when out-of-door work 
presses and help cannot be had. It i? 
money she is after, not only to keep 
themselves and stock, but put in improve¬ 
ments. A new surrey was bought last 
year from the proceeds of the garden, 
but the old spring wagon is far more in 
evidence. She has a pretty comfortable 
house of six roms with porches, a 
piano, which she used to play, but 
her daughter and oldest son use it now. 
She can paint, but she finds her hands 
more useful in bringing in the cash from 
milking cows than holding the paint 
brush. What her hand finds to do she 
does with her might if it brings in the 
dollars. She has a big heart withal, and 
many a needy person has cause to bless 
her for help in time of need. She loves 
out of doors and and out-of-door work, 
ami is never more happy than when do¬ 
ing or looking after the farm, garden or 
dairy cows. “It just makes me sick to 
work in the house,” she says, and it trou¬ 
bles her not if one finds her house neg¬ 
lected, as it has to he most of the time. 
"I try to keep something cooked, for 
so often I have some one to meals, and 
if there is bread and cookies I don't care 
for the rest,” she said, when telling of a 
neighbor woman who came with her four 
little children just dinner time to make a 
visit. This neighbor lived three miles 
away on a homestead which they took 
two years ago. They put up a little two- 
room house (shack, they call them) and 
plastered it last Fall. While the plaster¬ 
ing was being done and drying this 
woman, took the wife and four children 
into her home for a week to stay. Of 
course the neighbor helped with the 
work, but how many would have thought 
they could have done it? She said when 
they left she was thankful, “but what 
would the poor woman have done if I 
had not taken her in?” She felt it was 
duty. But there are plenty who would 
not have thought it duty, even in more 
easy circumstances. 
All Summer and Fall she has her boys 
pick up “cow chips” to burn in the kit¬ 
chen stove, and since cold weather came 
they follow the railroad track and pick 
up coal that falls from the cars. She 
drives along by the track and the hoys 
pick up in pails, emptying into the wagon. 
She has bought no coal this Winter. 
However, I would far prefer buying the 
coal (for she has the money to do it 
with) and spend more time in keeping 
my house in order and comfortable. But 
the money will help the daughter in Den¬ 
ver to dress well and go in “the best of 
society,” which she thinks more of than a 
clean house or neatly set table. We were 
invited there for Christmas dinner; her 
husband being home that day and the 
children. Her table was loaded with 
good things, everything put on the table 
(save the ice cream), not in, courses, and 
no plates rejnoved, but it was all there 
to be seen and eaten the old-fashioned 
way She had as much time to eat and 
talk as anyone. There were many on 
these plains who had no such dinner 
served and a glimpse of the turkey, 
fruits and so many good things would 
have seemed a heaven below to them. 
mrs. Frederick c. joiinson. 
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DRIFTING 
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Health is the founda¬ 
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Nerves, Brain, and 
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Anty Drudge on automobile stains 
Mrs. P. R. Osperous—“Oh, John, how am I ever going- 
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you had kept the cutunder and we didn’t have an 
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Did your boiler ever spring aleak 
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