Tke advantages of being a Man.
Agnes Rankin, the venturesome young girl of Fulton, Ky, who got into the penitentiary through her penchant for wearing boy's clothes, md who was pardoned and immeliafcely ran away from home again, is in more trouble. She went to work is a farm hand near Kenton, Tenn, and her sex was discovered, whereupon a very propor old magistrate of •.lie neighborhood sent her to gaol for further investigation of the case. Agues gave a roason for hor conduct which iu worth some consideration.
" I prefer to wear men's clothes," she said, " for the same reason which first Jed me to put tliem on. They ensure me employment wherever 1 go. Were I to come into this community dressed as a woman and asked to be allowed to do a hard day's washing for. 50 cents, 1 would neither get the work nor be allowed to stop in the house without being endorsed by a responsible person, or showing a pocketfull of recommendations to the household of my >rospectability. But if I come rigged as a man I get plenty of work at a dollar a day and no questions asked. I discovered a good while ago that it __doe3 not pay to be a woman. are no good."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3710, 14 January 1891, Page 2
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214Tke advantages of being a Man. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3710, 14 January 1891, Page 2
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