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A Hoosier Chronicle

CHAPTER III
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I know some of 'em.
Let's see.

What they say against colleges for women is that the girls who go there learn too much, so that men are afraid to marry 'em.

I wonder how that is?
But that's in favor of college, I think; don't you ?" Mrs.Owen answered her own question with a laugh; and having opened the subject she went on to disclose her opinions further.
"I guess I'm too old to be one of these new women we're hearing so much about.

Even farming's got to be a science, and it keeps me hustling to learn what the new words mean in the agricultural papers.

I belong to a generation of women who know how to sew rag carpets and make quilts and stir soft soap in an iron kettle and darn socks; and I can still cure a ham better than any Chicago factory does it," she added, raking a fly from the back of the "off" sorrel with a neat turn of the whip.


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