Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-24
A Word to Husbands.

IT seems to us that nearly every inven-
ton proposing to aid women in their
labor that has been generally introduced
to the public is the offspring of male
brain. The sewing machine, knitters,
the principal washing machines, wringers,
and churns, are undoubtedly OF such
origin, so that we can but conclude that
men do more reliable thinking in the line
of woman's interests than women do.
Thus we have certainly found it in our
own experience.
Now, my dear sir, to you who, being a
married man, and loving your wife, are
| vitality interested in her happiness, her
good health, and length of days, may we
suggest line of thought When you
come in from the field or workshop, and
| sit in the corner of the kitchen, while
| your wife cooks the noon or evening meal,
do you notice those three stairs up which
she must bring every pail of water she
uses, and every stick of wood she burns,
and down which every slop or bit of
| waste from the kitchen and house must
| be carried? Can't you contrive some
means to relieve her of that little burden
| that by little grows SO large?
Do you notice that for meal and flour,
| or the bread tray, or some other every
| day necessity she must go up stairs or
| down cellar, or to an clubhouse, when by q
| little continuance on your part she might
have a pantry large enough to contain
| everything she needs, and be able to COM
| pound her bread, and pies, and pastry,
| without " running all over creation" to
get things together before she can begin
to do anything? She has grown into the
habit of putting up with this little incOn-
| vonience, and that and the other, until,
perhaps, it does not occur TO her that an
hours ingenuity and planning might i'm
prove matters immensely, and relieve her
of the incessant and repeated trips from
one point of the premises and back again
| What blessing to her would be sink
in the kitchen, with a pump leading into
it and waste-pipe leading out of it.
How convenient would she find shelf
behind or near the stove where she might
set her batter cakes when she is, frying
them, and not run back and forward
across the kitchen from the stove to the
table and the table to the stove. Perhaps
there is a mantel-piece, but that is too
high-a broad, strong shelf is what she
wants, not much higher than the stove.
/ It's good place to set bread when you
want it to rise, or babies when you want
them to keep warm, and not rise; to iron
small pieces on or to sit on yourself when
! waiting for the shad to broil or the meat
to brown. of 9'ff"
1t is this constant worry and fret over
little things-the continual dropping that
wears stone-which frets out the youth
of woman, and draws away drop by drop
her enthusiasm and her life. While
steaming over the ironing-table or the
cook-stove with one crying child on the
floor, another in the cradle. and third on
the table watching mamma at work,
might not almost any woman envy her
husband treading the furrow under The
! open sky, behind the patient oxen, going
straight from point to- point, without
haste, without rest, without interruption
and without delay. True, his pillow feels
heavy at the end of the bout, and a big
stone may give him sudden wrench /; it
seems a long way from one end to the
lother ola grassy row of corn; the ham.
mer swings hard, and the plain pushes
slowly toward the end of languid spring
day but he has less annoyance, less chafe,
less wear of temper and nerve, than she
who goes through the daily and weekly
round of domestic toll and care.-Neao
York Tribune, sa osft 4s fsefej