Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1855-11-15
The Farmers Wife

The life of the farmer is often made the sub
ject of complimentary remark, so ofteo praised
for its peacefulncss and independence, that the
farmers wife might very nationally be supposed
to be the happiest woman in the world. From her
relation TO the ''lords of the SOIL she should be
the lady of the SOIL peaceful. healthy. indepen-
dent woman. That the of this is the gene
raj fact will be universally conceded by the wives of
the farmer.
A young farmer arrives at age when he thinks
II tine for him to get married. and ''settle down.
He hasa respectabe education, and wants wo-
man VINO Is ms equal. He looks about him and
makes his choice. She Is girl bred beside him i'm
the country; has seen well educated: reared by
careful parents. aEd - in the truc-t sense. lady.
She love, books, possesses skill and taste in music
and is in ell points fitted TO reign the qaecn of a
happy home. She becomes the wife of the farmer
Is ambitious to do much - her neigh5ors,. and
hel husband Is avaricious enough to allow the
woman of his love to become Bis most devoted
drudoc
From thcncclorth her life is one of the most UNI
renting toll. Ii is nothing but mend ard botch
cook and bake, wash and iron, churn ana make
cheese, pick up chips and draw water, bear chill
dren AMI nurse them. The family cnarges, the
husband grows wealthy. becomes important in the
community. rides to town every day. takes his
ease when he chooses: but the cares of his faded
and broken down wife know no relaxation. She
may out.ive her husband but rarely does, and not
unfrequenty second wife comes in TO share in the
money that should have been enjoyed by her pre-
decessor, through a quite old age of rest.
This is no fancy sketch. Ii is drawn from life
and in every country town and neighborhood its
truthtulness viii be recognized. Now we despise
the good-ior-notlings of fashionable life as much
a. any one, and have affections for drones in
any hive. We are aware that circumstances
to see the day when the farmers wife shall share
in the peacefuncss and independence of the far
mer'S lot. and call sometimes demand extreme
labor Of the farmers wife, but in England those
circumstances do nos Ircvail and while we would
leave no woman 20 eat the bread OF idleness, we
would see the class of which we are speaking
released from that circle of everlasting drudgery
which deprives them of the privilege of relaxa-
lion for a day, and the time which they would
gladly devote t. the maternal education of their
children
TO shrink; not because they are law but because
they know that they are to be sacrificed. Not be
cause the calling Of tie ar1ncr j. not respectable
but because they ID not wish to become his mis-
rcss. maid-of-all-worl, nurse and boot, jack. Now
the foundation of all this wrong Is that avaracious
spirit, handed down from father to son, which
makes the dollar the standard of responsibility.
and land the only fountain of happiness. We hope
upon the a'i,, to engage in The reform themselves
and To teach the lords of the soil that there is
something to I've Tor besides potatoes and that life
can toe cnioyed mere truly bv proper preserra-
ton OF the health, beauty. accomplishments and
good :, irit- of their companions
HIsroRY or SANTA -ANNA.-''IIc is now. saws the
1r'o"ne, nut sixty wears OF age. His name first
became known in l>2l. when he expelled the Row
aliSts from Vera Cruz. and was appointed Ia the