Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — She’s a Genius. [ARTICLE]

She’s a Genius.

Hear the town of White Oaks, N. M., lives one of the most remarkable women even of this most remarkable age. The house in which she lives, a low, white-walled adobe building covered with green vines and fitted out with rich carpets, artistic hangings, books and pictures, exquisite china and silver, and all the dainty belongings with which a refined woman loves to surround herself, was built with her own hands. The huge ranch on which it is located, with 8,000 cattle, is managed entirely by Per. It is she who buys or takes up the land, selects and controls the men, buys, sells, and transfers the cattle. She is also a skillful and intelligent prospector, and found the valuable silver mine on her 'territory, in which she now owns a half interest. She sings charmingly, accompanying herself on the piano or guitar, and handles a cambric needle or water-color brush as dexteriously as she uses an adze or a jackplane. She entertains delightfully at her home whist parties, little dances, and even an occasional german. Her name is Mrs. Barber, and she has been twice a widow. A woman who can run a ranch, build a house, manage a mine, and engineer a successful german deserves a prominent place in the ranks of women of genius.