Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-08-07
Living to Work VS.. Work
sT ar ing to Live. .s-o
BY MRS. JULIA 4. CARNEY.

II Ing " VOIA VS. WOEAe
a~ or ing to Live. .'-o
! a., BY MRS. JULIA A. CARNEY.
MY friend, Sarah T., married a young
farmer. We heard that he was very
worthy man-most farmers are; tilling
the soil does not seem congenial to ras-
cal:ty in general, and the necessity Of
being somewhat stationary, rooted, as IL
were, to one locality for considerable
season, is certainly not favorable to
fraud, and detalcation in particular.
So, when it was added that he was q
very pleasant man, and possessed fair
education, We rendered our congratula-
tions and, little doubtfully, hoped she
would be happy. We supposed she
would be, in plain, contented fashion
of happiness, for she was plain, prac-
tical kind of young lady, who would
hot expect to gather dahiias where she
had planted potatoes. Yet we rather
sadiy supposed tnat she had ieft all life's
romance far behind, and closed the door
Of mental pursuits, of literary tastes, of
c''i'''e' UT even 'e's're' ny marrying q
'aru'er' ca
NeA' " l'e ''''ilS'es ware, IN my
o''er sA'lon' tne Ver'est siave has seem
ca 10 pe .''e w"e u western farmer.
luz 0 le't'ie ''l soti mas invited tiiiage, and
aie iNVorihs cHmate mas fipened the
abundant gram, out the laborers have
beeh lew. Ihey are lingering In our
Eastern East ciIies, some tloanng upon street
corners some whose manhness would
De improved py becoming iaborers, are
louiiging upon the steps and balconies
oil fashionable hotels; some are meas
uring tape behind counters, receiving a
small salary in money, and the balance
IN genfility. aiadiia iiaI3e
HE Irish cling to the seaside cities,
because the cesseiess murmnr of the
wave seems ever to them a portion of
"the ouid counthrie," whose shores it
also laves, and the countless ships that
come and go seem ever messengers of
bone. Pale girls pine in New York
and domestic skill, might be SO improv-
ell and enlarged in the purer country
air, and more liberal supply of more
healthful food, as to astonish themselves,
and make each one of them blessing to
some overtasked wife and mother. We
do notyet appreciate the work which
more sunshine, outdoor exercise, cheer
ful, ,remunerative employment, and the
better supply, of food which these would
leadher to require and enable her to pro-
cure, might do for woman's strength.
Therefore 1t is that all over our broad
prairies may be found woman of as
much innate refinement, and far more
Intellect than the majority of their FASH
ionabie sisters, who yet perform an
amount OF daily labor which renders
any attempt 70 ramble in the paths of
literature or science simply impossible.
"ei' saran dia not aspire to being
literary or seientinc-that was one COM
iort; she wouid do the duty that was
nearest Whatever 1t might be-that was
anotner' 50 we became resigned, but
resignation is not, after all, the feeling
we prefer to have with regard to the
marriage Of friend. In process of
'ine We pa'a 1ne customary visit and
onereu 'ne customary lcohgratuiatlons'
one certainty seemed happy-most
pi'ues ao-snahe 70 'aose VINO woula
- s'a''o '"e ils"t Vi an ilnoceh' napp'-
ness oy eneir iii-tiineo prosiostlcations
u ' ,a'ufe woe. 81 |
:, Two years aiterward, IL ieii 10 our
,U' " 'pe.u ie" aays al her h'lne'
ne iouhd IL nome lndeed. IL was In
tiie busiest season oi iarh "orA' just
AZ he commencement OIL the grain par
ses1-a time when' IN many farmif arrllif
''ousss' al appeArahee on nome COM
fort Is thrown aside, and q perfect babel
of hurry and work prevails. At the
earliest gray of Boston; others, grow
ing paler and weaker as they sew.
whose slight strength, and still less
dawn all hands are up, and clothed, not
dressed, for work. A splash of water
over nose and eyes, performed at the
pump or from the tub which serves at
once as wash-basin for all the bipeds
and watering trough for all the quad.