Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 271, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1917 — The Strength of Woman. [ARTICLE]

The Strength of Woman.

•"The work women are doing In this war!” exclaimed a member of the railroads war board, at a banquet. “Driving ammunition trucks, digging trenches; even, a§ in Russia, fighting in the front line I “Woman comes more and more to resemble Cornelius Husk’s daughter, Marne. When Husky Mame, as she was known In the township, presented her future husband to the old man, Corn Husk sighed and said: “ ‘Take her, son, but take good keer on her, for the little ladybird has been riz tender-like. 'Four acres a day is all I ever ast her to plow, and two acres of corn is all she’s been used to hoe ’twlxt sun-up and dark. She kin do light work, sech as rall-splittin’ and well-dlggln’, but she ain’t used to rough stuff, and you must be gentle with her. I tell you, son, it’s hard for the old man to give his little sunshine up. He’ll have to splits-his own wood and tend his own stock now.’ ”