Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1889 — Merits of Southern Women. [ARTICLE]

Merits of Southern Women.

Northern people have al ways had a good many queer notions about their cousins down this way, and the queerest of all is tho notion that the Southern women are not practical. On the contrary, the women of the South take to business as naturally as a duck does to water. They have not the tendency to isms that tho fair Northoners boast of, thank the Lord. Their way is to take things as . they find them and make the best of the situation. Without the least appearance of effort or sounding tom-toms, they go quietly about paying their own way, and their failures are too fevy to talk about. It was nothing uncommon in old times to see a woman riding about in the fields bossing the negroes and the overseer. She usually supplemented this care on her own account with a general supervision of the country side, and her masculine neighbors were only too glad to consult her on matters of common interest. Many a debt burdened estate has been freed by the feminine turn for detail, a faculty that too many planters lacked before and since the war.—Sunny South.