Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-01-26

"A young farmer marries, and for q year OF
two bis wife can do very well without help but
by and by his work is too much for him alone,
and he must have a hand, and, one by one,
little children increase the family, until the
wife's burden is much heavier than when she
took it up. But he is just getting start and
if they want to get rich-as every body does
they must economize; SO SHE gets along
without help She rises early, milks the cows,
gets breakfast, (often for several men, dresses
the children, washes dishes, skins, milks
churns, perhaps sweeps rooms, makes beds
prepares dinner, cleans up, snatches an hour
to sew, keeping q restless baby quiet mean.
and the husband are asleep, resting from their
weariness sits up to sew, that she may save
paying q seamstress, ..,,as ~. Il III
all the washing, ironing, baking, .scrubbi,ng,
house cleaning, soap making and hog killing
work----it costs SO much to hire help So year
after year she tolls and drudges not allowing
herself the least opportunity for improving her
mind, so that she may be better guide and
counsellor for her children And very soon
her fair face is faded and careworn, her tenn
per soured, and fretful, and herself prostrated
now and then by fits ef illness only 10 resume
her wearylng labor as soon as return ng
strength permits And thus she yearly be-
comes less able to bear the burdens Of her in
creasing household duties. d. If the husband is
kind, considerate Ian, who has been taught
to assist his mother in boyhood, he makes her
work lighter, by carrying wood and water,
amusing the children and doing Gpmberless
Little things which may seem trihing in them
selves, but are of much Importance in the ag-
gregate. .'l ~ a1r, art, fo :, ,.j, u
But too many Een leave the wife to draw
water and carry wood, and if she fluids it cut
part of the time, she considers herself fortu-
nate; and as for the baby, he thinks it is wo.
man place to nurse chlldren-so it frets and
cries, OF mamma must work with it on her arm,
while he reads his paper or talks with his hired
men. ,g.a.,rr= rr.i p .r4, '.#lIt. a.. Cd.
Well the farm increases in value and fertil-
ity, and his labor for producing for his family
becomes lighter, as he is able to hire more
help; but it is an old thing, both to himself
and his wife, for her to do all the housework,
with what little help the elder children, if they
are girls, can give her; for if they are boys
they cannot work much for her,-as soon as
they can use hoe they must help father, and
she tolls on in the same old fashion.
And when the comfortable new house is
built and nicely furnished, and her chlld dren are
beginning to be real help to her, the pale,
sickly wife and mother LIES DOWN TO DIE !
Truly her sun goes down at MONDAY, sI
The wife has saved by her ceaseless, weary
ing toll, hundreds of dollars for her husband;
and he has ost--what money is powerless to
recall-the companion of his youth, the one
who has walked beside him through life most
thorny paths. aJy .-e.sl.
And trends say it is mysterious Provi-
dence! Just as if God ordained that the moth
er should be taken from her children when
they are most exposed to temptation and dam
ger Instead OF laying it to Providence, let
US remember the days spent in toll, disease,
induced perhaps from over exerton; the hours
stolen from needed slumber and devoted to
labor, the numberless household duties per-
formed with trctiul infant upon her arm;
the immense amount Of time spent in cook
ing over hot fire, and the many sleepless
nights passed in anxious watching over sick
children. When we look at the subject in this
light, is it so very mysterious that so many
women die in their pr.mc2 a