Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-11
For the VERMONT FARMER.
VARIOUS MATTERS.

A few hours ride, by rail, brings great
change over the spirit of our dream. We
are among fashionable women, and fashion.
able things, in big town, alive with busi.
ness and competition. We have exchanged
the land of fat cattle and big turnips,
for the toll of the studio, for the varied rev.
cries amid ideal hills and sunsets, clouds and
twilight scenes What a contrast to the
work before the broad-shelf, to the vagaries
and visions Of endless colors, the mental toll,
in periecting scenes in oil landscape. AL.
ready we long to count the fresh eggs in the
pantry, and to bathe their crystal whiteness
free from all bemish But alas a change
Of base a change Of people one walks in.
to our studio, and before our easel talks
largely of art and color, leaving us to infer
it doubtful after all if he really knows a cab
bage from turnip.
When one spends all the day in toll and
labor, tax and strain on the eye, mind and
nervous system, with the paint brush and
palette, we think of farmers wives" and
the confessions and experiences Of Mrs. Laura
b. Boyce, whose life seems to be somewhat
mixed, in the daily strife and struggle OF
work, pen and book and " various irons in the
fire. There are many things written nova.
days often amusing, instructive and suggest.
i've; one talks largely about life and its va
ried worries,-is there any condition or posi-
tion without them, free from annoyances
We are told, by some, Of the strange state
of society we will have when women vote,
and what capacity will do, mentally and
physically. Appropos of this and many 9TH
er things, in this age of progress, we sit down
to think out some things on our own
line, doubling, questioning and concluding
no little patience and experience is necessary
for us to reach successfully the ultimate end
of practical things.
We have all sorts Of new things, of i'm
proyements on the old. In the line of match
es, we have explosives and non-explosives,
and some matches evidently not made in
heaven, and we would ask those who may
know, which are best ? Then in the various
line Of soaps, made from nice chemical tests
and afinities, with fine odors and colors we
have the toilet soaps, the home made soaps,
the carbolic, the CASTLE and Windsor. Which
is best In the line Of alkalies in general
domestic use We have soda, saleratus, harts-
horn and other chemical alkaline compounds.
In our experiments, We ask Of those who
knoao, which is the best and safest in perfect
ing its agency in neutralizing acids, and the
least injurious on the score of health when
used habilualy or now and then in the cui-
sine. We have all sorts of cements, diamond
cement, white lead cement, and Spaulding's
glue, FOX healing broken china, earthen and
glassware, restoring dolls heads and making
whole various fractures and hicks in Bohe-
rnian glass who can tell us which is safest
strongest and most durable? Lastly, We
would ask, in the name Of heaven, what
antics are not required of women, from the
sewing on of buttons, the endless stitching on
garments, and regulating the rebellious mem.
bers Of the masculine part Of the household
II. l.. c.
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