![]() ![]() It really requires less strength and labor to raise plenty to satisfy a large family than it does to go out to wash, with the added satisfaction of knowing that their job will not be lost to them if they care to keep it. I am very enthusiastic about women homesteading. When I read of the hard times among the Denver poor, I feel like urging them every one to get out and file on land. She was content to stay in bed and enjoy the contents of her box. They relieved some weary night-watches, and the box did Jerrine more good than the medicine I was having to give her for la grippe. That explains my long silence.Īnd now I want to thank you for your kind thought in prolonging our Christmas. ![]() ![]() Out here where we can get no physician we have to dope ourselves, so that I had to be housekeeper, nurse, doctor, and general overseer. Stewart came down with la grippe and was so miserable that it kept me busy trying to relieve him. I am afraid all my friends think I am very forgetful and that you think I am ungrateful as well, but I am going to plead not guilty. Stewart’s “Letters of a Woman Homesteader” continued: ![]()
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