Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-08-16

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ing the hardest part Of the labor on the farm /
Her work is more exacting, more perplexing, /.
and more protracted than that Of men. Ger
tain things She must do, tired or rested, sick
or we'll She must do them in a given way
aud at n given time and what is worse, her
work is never done Beginning in the morn
ing as early as her husband she works later
than he does, all the while with the uncom-
Portable certainty that the morrow brings no
respite and no change.
Take this case-thc history Of the actual
experience Of a single day--something that
came under the personal observation Of the
writer-a record that thousands of men will
recognize as simple Of their everyday
lives from spring to autumn Of each year
The scene is in Northern town, and the
parties are q man and his wife in middle lite,
having two children living upon a hundred
acre farm Of passable fertility, which keeps
six COWS, four young cattle, two oxen, one
horse, four pigs four turkeys, forty hens and
a few sheep
Leaving out Monday for washing Tuesday
for the ironing, and Saturday for the general
baking, we will take Wednesday as a speei.
men Of the other days of the week.
The wife rises at four o'clock, generally
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;no,s Ill hon rroraros b-eatc,st which
sbe bnrriedly % eati w;,b one bana ON the
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- .1isrars;ns5, ca - ,bo ,ra;ssina f,rIs
5otb ~ Fb;cb seooiye a,,ention immodiotely
or he, 1oo,;o, no IN
f,,y ,r;n9tos brinas ,be b,,,or and ,ben
como ,yorlin. and saIting ,hcn the rrenars.
Ian of vcsierdavs cbnrnino for market
,ben w,sIin, tho milk.nails Tho miIk-nans
he cbnrn and tbe kfast.disbes with 4
tboron,b s,bsooront scolJ;n, of oocb evcen,
Tho l,s5. ,bon q General cIoaS;nc and rn,tipg
in ordor Of vbat has boon d;so5dered bv The
n,or,;oa,s VOL the, tho turLevs ,re q he
rsJ ,be second timo and lot ont. then Inn.
cbcon rre,,rcd tLor rcbambor.worl unt;, the
rri,cip,l meal of tho dov is undertaken a,
ionotb from over tho hot stove dinner tber
rosbin, tho dinner.disbas. then skimming
, milf Gf the weather is bon. another mpc6
then cOOkiUu ALWAYS more or less then get
,ing ,bo tnrlcvs into their resnective anert.
r ,ne9ts tbon sumner then straining tho mill
wosbinr tho nans and nails and dishes and nt
lenrtb. somewhere about nine o'clock-seyen.
teen hours since She left 1.-THE bed.
An of this intersrersed with occasional
sewing. as moment offered changing tn,
cbidren's garments twice during the day
once for school. and then to their home.clotbe
when school was over. besides helping to ge
them on and of at morning and night be
D sides the thousand nameless things that ever,
D GOOD bousekeeper and mother finds to do
! and all tbis bpt an AVERAGE Of the tbre
Gchtost dovs of the week. irving Sunday as
= dav of onlv partial rest at that.
l. Now. take the husband. He gets up a
r four O'Clock. milks six cows, taking him Al
hour; feeds the pigs, eats his breakfast
mows, and strs and opens hay till noon
rakes and pitches till night-never hurrie
and never perplexed, most of the time talk
c ing with his neighbor with whom he exchan
ges work, leisurely doing his little noon chore
and his night ones, and by set of sun is read
= ing his paper, in the comfortable conscious
G ness Of so much hay secured-a lot move
over that is finished for year. And this
g sample Of the heaviest work Of the sun
d mer