Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-11
WHOLE NO. 1917.


go of in a huff, and you were to scald your
fingers cooking the pottagew
We read Of no such loving episodes in tho
primitive Arcadia, so we may suppose they
wrought contentedly together as they we're
commanded, until that busybody, the old
sarpnt," beguied the woman to their
destruction. And thus it will be in the
good time coming Adam will do the wash
ing and scrubbng, and Eve will assist Adam
in dressing the garden, aud she will be
stronger aud healthier, and he more tender
and considerate than now he will be con-
tent to live on simpler food, aud that which
will require less labor in preparation, and
both will be gamers thereby.
do not expect the millennium to come
in my day, however, and since we must take
things as they are, not as they should be,
must say that if woman has more than she
can do in the house, it would be very hard
to ask her to work out of doors, unless she
received equivalent help from her husband
within; but | do contend that women ought
for their own sakos to spend all possible
time in the open air.
Farmers Daughter seems to take it
for granted that i am proficient in hay
making, because | said [ should rather do
that than some other things, when think l
plainly stated that it was the other hinqS
which had to do. l never raked hay but
one afternoon, and l certainly never felt
ashamed of that half days work. | never
even suspected that | was out Of my proper
"sperc as Betsey Bobbett has it. She
would "prefcr doing the work of dozen
men in her proper place" and that is Just
what have done for part of the hay sea-
son; that is, l suppose she would deem it
the proper place, swetering over the cook
stove in dog days. | didn't find it partlcu-
larly exhilarating, however. l think it
couldn't have been much better raking hay.
Sister Advance asks, "who ever knew
farmers wife spend the time reading that
her husband does ?"
/ have. [ know several who spend a
great deal more time reading than their hus.
bands do, and are quite as well informed on
all the topics of the day as their licge lords.
L admit that men have more leisure as
general thing than their wives, but as far as
| have noticed the women who never work
out Of doors do not read more, are no more
intelligent, refined, or dgniGed than those
who do occasionally lend helping hand to
their husbands when they are able. 1t de-
pends more on the natural bent Of the mind
than anything else; if either man or woman
has strong taste for reading, they will fnd
means to crafty 1t in measure.
Advance also thinks it does not speak
well for girl to marry farmer when she
does not have taste for the labors of farm-
er's wife. beg leave to differ. If were
a man think l should prize girl all the
more that she loved me so much as to be
willing to marry me in spite of my calling,
if that were Objectionable to her. | think
there are few young girls who are so in love
with the many hard and disagreeabe duties
Of a farmers wife az to be willing to dol
them for their own sake, but they may be
willing to do a farmers work for his sake.
Farmers Daughter must be rather un-
fortunate in her acquaintanees if we may
judge from the specimens she gives us. THE
lonesome husband" afraid to work alone
who draws his sap to the house " to boil by
the kitchen fire." must be a rare animal in|
{ these parts. l never happened to know such|
an one. And the :" brutal husband" whonI
the poor wife dare not disobey, must be an|
lawful man." indeed. "The harmless man,
who lacks ambition, is not quite so rarel
But has she ever tried the remedy she reel
ommends so that she knows "cayenue peppeI
tea will prove effcacious This remedy car|
do no great harm, however, even if it doei
not wake him up, but 1 must object to heI
proposed remedy for the poor farmer with!
six or seven girls.
Buy large farm, tell the girls to gel
married and bring their husbands home, and
, the work is done" Aud that is her idea O:
} dolicacy aud refinement. Girls may nd
help their father in the field that would
r degrade them, but they may go husJant
= hHnting!
My girls may pick up potatoes, milk tn
S cows or rake hay, aud | do not feel tha
t they are degraded thereby, but they canuO
= do as she proposes without losing their ow
r self respect.
: All girls are not equally attractive, an
, it might be much easier to say "get married
: than to accomplish that important affair."
} it invariably takes two to make barga
n in such case-sometimes more than tw
Q She can hardly go out and seize man, an
k compel him to marry her, nOlens roleS
= But providing the men are forthcomin
/, all ready to be noosed," it would require
g pretty large farm to proftably employ ii
$ six or seven men, and what house wou
peaceaby contain the happy family?"
II If" Farmers Daughter wishes to hei
r from Mr. Boyce, upon this or any other sui
l. ject, if she will only call on him in pers|
t he will doubtless favor her, but hardly OF
IS erwise, as in this firm do the 'Oritiag al
: he does the talking,-that is in public =
Q reserve the privilege Of an occasional curta
N lecture. LAURA B. BoYcE.
'r FaystOn, Aug. 30.
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