school teacher makes living as blacksmith blacksmith 4 lincoln neb unable to secure an appointment as teacher in the rural school districts of kansas she resided mrs philo P wilcox hag bag 51 11 Y F I 1 14 I 1 6 miss wilcox earns her living at the anvil turned to blacksmithing which was her husbands hub bands fiade in the last 15 years she has i teased eared a faintly of four children and as her husband failed la in health she las has worked more and aad motto into jhb business until now flow in the suburb of college mew bew she does all the work mork offered with the aid of three ot of h hr her r children Iloise shoeing Is the only part of the business at which mis allis alcox balks she la IS able to prepare a hoise for its shops shoes but owing to the handicap of skirts can lot affix the tie shoes to the animals hoofs boors in ill the at stile le long ap proved by mrs lira alco Is 40 she has a deal clear complexion Lomp lexion and her hardened haid enod ened muscles are evidence of the long hours she has out dut in at the forge during her girlhood days she to re calved a rood good education and was a teacher when 11 alcox married her nt it roselle Rosel lp kan in kansas married women are not wanted as school baams and barred out of teaching she turned to the forge 1 I like the work she says at fit alist tit the tendency of people to stop anil ana stare was mas disconcerting but now I 1 dont mind it I 1 know of ilo other woman bladel smith lit in the country most of my iny work la Is in using the sledge malting making horseshoes hoise shoes repairing wagons and farm implements sharp ening tools and the like I 1 am I 1 opt ept busy all the time lime one of the girls take clie of the house and the other three help I 1 11 i the shop two of m ma girls aged 17 and 15 respect icly are expect bicycle repair els eis ono one mil m mikes il es from five to eight dolhie a week at t work ork tle old est cst it I 1 a mechanic linto she can call talt take e the most complicated michin ay ay iy to tell what it wrong repair it and put it together toRel toge hei thet again my husband litis bind la is now in me rot foi his hia health the Is hard upon him but the rest reit of us like it and thrive uon it my ailia ill went ment out last sum su in nier mer with a thinht thin shins ng machine outfit and wih with ith it all summer she cut aind firari tit tin engine fed the sep alator and did aid part of the he cooking tor for tho the men it la it hardly gh gill I 1 a work m ark bat it does not harm her she is as aa lithe and asiong as a young lion and la in alcide races has moro more thara than a match at long distances for the young mon men lu in the neighbor cod I 1 still have a license to teach find and shall turn to that this mantei when the Is dullest I 1 like this work b ater than the s hool room