Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-26
WHOLE NO. 1856.

What are woman's rights II is the right
Of some to labor on and on and still on till
only tho crest that remaineth for the people
Of God" is found. 1t is the right of some
to be better 6nancicrs than their partners in
life, but no matter as the money docs not
pass through their hands, and if by chance
they get "dollar or two" they are told how,
when, and where to use it. 1t is the right
of some to be overworked until they are
necessarily compelled to keep the bed Tor
months, and may never rise from it well
again, or perhaps life is sacrificed, and tho
true, noble mother is gone, and left to the
care Of strangers her little ones grow up;
instead Of being an ornament to society they
are a disgrace to it. And for what2 Too
late you see she has been worked to death;
sleep. Is there one man out Of ten that
will willingly get his wife help when he has
extra farm hands No, there is not thought
or care Of their poor, tired, overworked wife
that they promised at the altar to "lovc,
honor, and cherish"
If husbands and fathers could and would
see that kind words Of love and praise to
their tired wives and girls made household
cares lighter, easy to perform, they would
more often speak encourngmgly and appre-
ciate their true worth not if they ask you
for little money for themselves or family
hand it to them grudgngly (if you hand at
ally as though they had not earned it many
times over and did not need it. Is it not as
much theirs as yours? Are you not CO.
partners in life You that "can't afford" to
make your family comfortable reckon up
your tobacco liqnor and "treat" bills and
hand the same amount to your wives weekly,
and l think they will not ask you for small
change.
Is it to be wondered at that the rising
daughters of our farmers will not place
themselves in the same position as their
mothers, when they see what they have to
pass through from day to day? think to
"keep hush" is entirely foreign from tho
subject, for if our farmers girls are smart
land they are as capable as any they can
and do see the tolls, the cares, of their over
worked mothers. Is it a wonder they are
averse to marrying farmers which do not
think they would be but for the continued
hard labor imposed on them from the time
they enter upon their duties as wife. Who
can blame them?
l can't agree with our Lincoln friend as
to the remedy of keeping the rising girls
from leaving home. Some would not return
if all the "enterprisiDg young farmers" were
sent after them-not to enlist and follow in
the footsteps of our mother we have seen
too much. Girls, don't marry simply for a
home but make one; you are endowed with
talents and the world is wide enough for all.
If you marry see to it that the one you
take for better or worse tit is hoped you
will find them no worse) thinks more of you
and less of the amount of your labor that
adds TO his riches. Why is it that our girls
leave home and 60 to teaching, or to the
many factories? 1t is plain enough they
have less work, and more pay; they have
less hours to labor and not only have credit
for what they do, but are paid for doing it.
Parents, fathers, if you want to keep
your girls at home make home pleasant, give
them kind encouraging words, and OCCASION
ally give them some means to help them
selves, and tell them it is theirs, that they
have earned it, make them feel that they
have and are earning something. Do not
give grudgingly as if you thought what you
gave them detracted from your wealth, when
they have helped earn it for you.
Parents, friends, all, try this, and see for
yourselves if it does not pay.
| would like to ask "a" where those
"silly mothers" are that teach their children
that work is degrading; not in our country
town, surely, for know not of mother
who docs not teach her children to work,
and that labor is far more ennoblng, rather
4 than degrading; also that it is command
from the Master that we shall "carn our
bread by the sweat Of. our brow"
God bless our noble mothers, who have
instiled nevcr-to-be-forgotten principles in
their children. Oh that they may be heed
cd; perhaps not in their life time will they
see the fruits of their labor of love, but
"cast thy bread upon the waters and thou
shalt find it after many days" If all that
can be said against our farmers sons is that
they are "awlul awkward creatures" they
will yet be tho honored ones in our land.
Let them be educated lit pays) let their
morals be pure; let them do as well as they
know; let their character be formed in
youth under pure home influences; let them
know you expect them to grow up honest,
honorable men that will eventually fiji places
of trust in our united land. Such are the
ones to be sent after the rising girls. Then
we shall not need to do as our Presidents
daughter has dOne,-go to foreign lands for
husbands. ADVANCE.
FairJaz, June Is.
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