Mower County transcript., 1871-06-29
A Word of EntreatY.

THE incarnation of self sacrifice finds its
embodiment in the souls and bodies of
farmers wives, and especially such as are
mothers. We refer now to the almost uni
versal disposition among them to convert
themselves into absolute drudges, simply
for the 80 ke of saving few dollars, which
they believe will advance the happiness
and welfare ofthose they love. Thousands
of women 60 down to early graves every
year, victims to this dcplorable misappre.
hension of results, of how they may best
serve those they wish to serve.
At this season of the year, when the
hard and earnest work of farm life opens
and asserts its demands, and country wo.
men are deciding for themselves the ques-
ton, we beg leave to put in an earnest
entreaty in behalf of the children For
their sakcs, consider that your life and
health are more to them to the very last
moment OF your life, than any amount of
money you may be able to lay up for their
use. We write from sad and profound
experience. Our own mother, a proud,
ambitious woman, with delicacy Of con
stitution too often characterizing cur coun-
try women, full of nerve and with great
force of character, found herself at the
early age of thirty-eight "just ready to
begin to enjoy life" as she sadly expressed
it, obliged to relinquish ito leave the
comfortable home she had toiled so hard
to win and adorn, and to know that her
children were soon to be motherless AL
though very little girl then, it made an
impression that subsequent years have
only confirmed. OVER WORK, the impulse
of which was lcue and ambition for her
chsldreas, killed her. How gladly would
each and all of us, part with every dollar
that has come to us, from the basis of her
mother! The mistake she made, although
so palpable to us now, she saw only when
too late.
We we'll remember one day, during the
time when she was rapidly nearing the
limit of her life here, of q conversation
she had with friend, in which she de.
plored her mistaken love, and hoped her
own daughters would never do as she
had done. 1t was only the old story of
half the mothers who go to heaven great
many years before they ought-working,
consciously beyond her strength, for "only
this once" but doing it not only once, but
again and again, until the last possibility
was exhausted.
oh, wives and mothers, be wise before
it is too late! Live so as to enjoy eyerY
day of your life. Ten years hence, or
even tomorrow, you may die. Live so
that your presence will gladden. the lives
OF your dear ones, more than anything
your hands can win for them. Don't
think You serve them wisely or lovingly
by sacrificing your health with view to
economy, (which is never economy, but
the rankest extravaganza. What if the
farm be notpaid Tor this year, or next, or
even next? There is not much to fear so
long as you retain your health but euery
thing to fear if you lose it.
So, if your best judgment tells you that
you shall need help this coming summer,
follow your judgment in the matter Aside
from the children, and what you owe to
them in caring for your health, you owe
equally as much t yourself: You have a
right to life andohappiness, if you are a
woman. So many women act rs if they
were OF secondary importance, simply be-
cause of their being women, and married
ones, that their action provokes COM
ment, If nothing more.
On the subject of Help we have hith-
erto had somewhat to say, SO that we have
now only to suggest male domestics where
females cannot be procured. An active
boy from ten to fifteen years of age will
Tighten the labors of a house almost, if not
quite, a. much A. full grown domestic,