Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1883 — A Typical Michigan Girl. [ARTICLE]

A Typical Michigan Girl.

A young lady living two miles from town", weighing 116 pounds, - and only seventeen years of age, arises at 5 a.m. and milks eight cows, helps her mother get breakfast, trfkes the team and carries the milk of thirty-two cows to the cheese factory, two miles ‘distant, and brings back a load of whey; then hitches the team to the machine or rake, as the occasion requires; does all the mowing, reaping and raking on the farm of 800 acres. At the close of each day’s work she milks the cows, assists her mother in finishing the housework, and retires at 9 p.m. Beside this, she keeps the book of the farm, is fair looking and intelligent. The young man who wins her* hand has a fortune.— Charlotte (Mich.) Letter.