The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-01-19
England. She took up her residence
at Chiselhurst where she was soon
after rejoined by the emperor.
WOMEN FARMERS.

There is a great amount Of sickly
trash in regard to womcn's work on the
farm, which passes current through
agricultural papers as if they we're the
golden words of wisdom. If a woman
be seen helping to load hay wagon, or
one be known to lend hand to the
pillow occasionally, she is held up as a
model woman for poor man to marry,
and model woman for all other of her
sex to take pattern by. Sometimes
woman hires farm, and directs and
controls all herself; and the papers 60
wild with excitement, and no Ian
guagc seems too exaggerated to ex-
press their admiration at the event.
For our part we never could see why a
woman should not have perfect liberty
or freedom to do any farm work, if
she has mind to. We have taken the
privilege many time in the days Of
our bachelorhood to sew buttons on
our pantaloons, without ever dreaming
that the act would be worth recording
as something very meritorious in
womans journal. In fact we never
could get any praise from women for
doing just such things. II, in our
awkwardness, we stuck our thick fin
gers with the needle, instead of getting
woman's sympathy, it was more than
likely we should be told that it served
us right-why not take wife and let
her do it?
The great fault we find with all
these agricultural women articles is
that they are all written from mans
standpoint. In farming, more than
perhaps in any other occupation, is CO.
operation between man and wife desira-
able in business point view. There
is no reason why the woman should be
expected all the time to be "help-
mate" to her husband, and he not be
helpmate to her. Just now there is
paragraph going the rounds which
seems to excite the great admiration of
those who want women to work the
farm. A young man is invited to
lady's parlor company, and he invites
her to sing and play the the piano for
him. He also invites himself to a din.
ner of her own cooking" in order that
he may judge of her wifery as
we'll as her musical abilities, and the
paragrapher cannot see why not? We
imagine the ladies would be perfectly
willing to submit to this test of their
housekeeping abilities before marriage,
if the young men on their part would
submit to have their pocket books and
bank accounts examined in advance
of the nuptial tie. 1t seems only fair
that if one insists on thorough knowl-
edge of his cook, she should on the
other hand have full information in re-
gard to the supply Of cooking materi-
ais.
For our part we must own up TO no
great liking for women farmers. If
they are obliged to do this work, or
find they can do it to better advantage
than anything else, all right-and we
commend their pluck and spirit in 60
ing through with it, but We prefer in
farming to see certain things set apart
definitely as mans work and as wo-
mans work-not that either should
never aid in the others work by any
means, but that in a general way each
should have an independent sphere.
As to the rights and wrongs, abilities
and disabilities of the sexes in their
application to farm life, young people
will do themselves more good by learn
ing what principles make true men and
women than in studying a woman's
ability to cook, and darn and wash, and
milk, and make hay, and pillow, and
drive team or in a mans command of
money or family friends. All these,
of course, are important matters, but
the true man or true woman under
stands all this and provides for
them Forney's Press.
NECESSITY OF VENTILATION.
told that the breathing of impure
air is fruitful source of disease Of the
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