Show chicagoan thinks agriculture a field for comans womans efforts has no doubt she and friends will be able to successfully work acres bought in western country chicago miss glenna E lynch president of the dressmakers art club who has left for the west to complete arrangements for taking up a tract which his been pur chased by a number of chicago work ing girls thinks farming offers a good field for women who earn only a precarious living in the cities this may be something of a facer to anti suffragists and others who think women are already going far afield from woman realm but miss lynch is in earnest about it do you regard fruit raising as a good field for women she was asked certainly why not there are hundreds of opportunities open for young women with initiative and brains we have invested our money in irrigated fruit lands as a business proposition and we mean to make a success of it too replied miss lynch oh I 1 have been told about the miles and miles of sage brush with no signs of life except jack rabbits but I 1 am not afraid of the prospect or the jack rabbits either she de dared defiantly mrs T vincent morse president ot the Art cratt institute shares miss lynch s views on farming as an oc cu for women I 1 am trying to get a number of the girls interested in fruit farming said she it offers such a good field for them to get them away from the crowded cities the shipment of cut flowers is now an easy matter and what life could appeal to a girl more than raising flowers there arp plenty of avenues open to young omen besides the grind and drudgery of the factory I 1 am satisfied that the project will turn out to be a success and I 1 don t know any better investment girls could have chosen they are all anxious to hear the result of hilss lynch s investigation I 1 have been oer that country myself and I 1 feel sure they will get a favor able report on miss lynch s return miss lynch was born in rochester ind and has lived in chicago since she was five years of age that was not such a long time ago but she is not parading her age to the public I 1 can t afford to tell my age she said it hurts the business some people thanh that young women are not capable of doing anything A girl of 20 may know more than a worn an of 50 but some people are afraid to give her a chance to show it please do not say that the mem bers of the guild are seamstresses she went on we cin sew of course but we are not seamstresses as the term is generally understood we are designers ot gowns millinery and household draperies one of our mem bers Is a stenographer and another one Is a florist |