Krout - Mary Hannah
KROUT MSS.
The Krout mss., 19th and 20th cent., consist of poems and articles by Mary Hannah Krout, 1851-1927, feminist and journalist, of Crawfordsville, Indiana. They are undated and include [1] Dining out in Hongkong, A.D.S. 20p. 14cm.; [2] The doves of Honolulu, A.D. 2p. 22cm., printed in the Reader Magazine, V:78, December 1904; [3] The Heralds, A.D.S. 1p. 22cm.; [4] Indiana and the U. S. Navy, A.D.S. 35p. 14cm.; [5] Lick Observatory, A.D.S. 27p. 21cm.; [6] Old Cincinnati, A.D.S. 35p. 14cm.; [7] Poems. T.D. 11p. 26cm., Little Brown Hands, also a printed copy, How Beautiful is the Earth, Yesterday, From My Window, An Evening Primrose, Today, What the Birds Told, The Answer; [8] Renewal, A.D.S. 2p. 18cm.; [9] The Silver Service of the Battleship "Indiana," A.D.S. 15p. 14cm.; [10] Some Queer Feathered Folk, A.D.S. 24p. 14cm.
Collection size: 17 items
For more information about this collection and any related materials contact the Manuscripts Department, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 -- Telephone: (812) 855-2452.
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Source: Crawfordsville Star, June 19, 1879 p 5
The woman-hater and man-adorer of the Rockville Tribune speaks thus unwisely:
"Miss Mary Krout, in the Kokomo Tribune, writing on valuable farms and homes says: These farms belong not to the woman but to the man whose wife she is. He is the sole and absolute proprietor. The fields, the orchards, the barns and the cattle are his to keep or dispose of as he and he alone sees fit. The hard working, uncomplaining sharer of his toil can not claim as her own, to do with as she chooses, the products ofone acre."
All of which shows that Miss Krout is a racy writer, but knows nothing of the law. We should admire to see a man "dispose as he sees fit" of his farm. We are not quite barbarians in Indiana, though some "reformers" nearly make us out such."