Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — An Energetic New Woman. [ARTICLE]

An Energetic New Woman.

“I don’t take much stock in these new woman ideas,” remarked a man from sob th Georgia yesterday, "but I saw one to-day I would like to have in my corn field in fodder season to pull fodder. Say, that woman was a James Ttr chr about a bioek and a half away and made up her mind jt; and she did,, be-gosh. She made a plunge for it and whistled for the conductor to stop the concern. The reach thcTcar, and consequently didn’t stop. But that woman was one of the up-to-daters, and she bad-different notions from those of the conductor. She ran like a rabbit, and it wasn’t long before she had planted her tinyjoot upon the step of the retreating ear. “I felt disposed to applaud her for this feat, but about that time she reached up and pulled the bell cord and stopped the car herself. “The conductor and motorman looked up in astonishment. ‘I simply want to wait for my dog to catch up,* she replied, to their inquisitive glances. “Now, all I hav*e to say is this—that if that woman is a new woman, we need more of them to run this country. We need them particularly in the corn fields.”—Atlanta Constitution.