AN AMERICAN STORY.
!•. Enterprise,..in. Kansas; is not',.confined, to ,:tho sterner! sex.; -In Saline,County,'.at'a reicent'- election, - a young, woman," who- was. a jcahdidato for .tho 'superintaivloncy- of ! schools, applied., methods; "which astonished ..'heropponent. -" ' ,; , , ' . -.One day;:just before noon, sho droye up l : 't'o a- wheat.-'field,' where, twenty -.men; .wore •working'at"tho.-harvest.' ,'Shb,!was:tho'"cqntro of . interest : , for, -the moment, ..and-, .the' men gathered round her.- • " - VI" want-you all to vote for me," sho said. r ''What are you going to do -for .us ?!•' called one'of'them. , V .; "I'll be a good official,": slie 'replied. , .... ."That's not enough. Can you. cook P,", "Yes, I can cook." _ .' "Well, we'Ve been living.on men's .cooking for; two; weeks out ,hero ,in harvest,,-and if syon want '.us. to .vote for, you, cook'' .us;, 'a woman's meal;" " ~ " "I'll do: it. .'. Where's your .cook-shaclc,?'' ■ She alighted from tho trap, prepared a hearty, ,well-c'o6ked; me'al for'.,, ,the :; twenty 'men, and, went away with :their three cheers and the; promisi) of 'their .' votes 'in her, ears. .She; was elected,'.and declares 'now. tlidt she "cooked her; opponent's; goose" for 'the; harvest dinner/' ■
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 124, 18 February 1908, Page 3
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176AN AMERICAN STORY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 124, 18 February 1908, Page 3
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