Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-01-08

"Dear me, Solomon" said the wife lucy. in
the evening, s'you could never guess what those
girls have DONE
"Perhaps purchased each new silk erowi"d
Solomon without lining his EYES tom his
paper.
''No, indeed, NOT cried The wife indignant
ly. They've rented Jacob Sloam's farm
eighty acres, and twenty oft in frtlit."
"What, "cried solomon, the paper falling
helplessly at his feet. "You don't surely mean
our girls, rot Matilda, and Josephine, and
Sarah, and Flora, ard LucyYn
81 mean no one else's girls surely, the wife
replied, a little GROSSLY. "They take possession
thing, they are to have one-half."
III just tell you, Lucy, what it is. This is
the most consummate piece of humbug ever
heard Of. 1t will be dead failure, aud they'll
make themselves the laughing stock of the neigh
borhood. Farming, indeed? Why 'Tilda IA
that afraid of her hands that she never sweeps
even. without gloves; and Flora wraps her
head In 4 towel to dust.-I've seen Josephine
do the breakfast things with the dish rag cling
| ing to fork, and Sarah wraps her fingers with
bit of cloth, each one separately if she has
| vegetables to prepare.
Brave farmers they W III maker-And Solo
| mon Brown went back to his paper with
scornfnl chuckle.
] Solomon, too, was somewhat Of a fogy, Wo.
men were women, and women they must re.
| main 10 the end. great pity, he had often
said thai it was SO, but nature could not be
tortured out o! her old, well worn channels by
education. Eve, he considered, as having been
vicious sort of little body, bending poo. Ad-
ans nose down close 10 The grindstone, aud
there her daughters had relenllessly held IT,
through all ef the long years since that
tragedy.
Solomon believed in progression. lie
hat yk.a unia Ia,
| derstood. that new discoveries were ID he made;
that the Atlantic would be crossed in a balloon,
but Solomons radicalism didn't include the pos
| sibilities OF the coming woman. She was 10
| be what she had been from the beginning. So
he pOoh-poohed al his daughters farming, not
believing that any GOOD thing should come ont
! OF Nazareth.
1t was an up hill road to those five dainty
daughters of Solomon Browns. But in one
thing they resembed their father. They were
obstinate, and when they learened his predic-
tlon as To their failure, they were quite deter
mined not to fail.
They were up early and worked late. Their
| strawberries were success They gave EN-
poyment To number of girls in The village in
gathering their small fruits, thus recognizing
| The trile policy, that women must hello each
| other. They kept one hired man, aud under
his instructions these young handles learned to
| turn ready hand to all kind Of farm labor.
Old solomon Browns pooh -poohs, grew less
emphatic and he began to speak with sort OF
shame faced pride of "Our girls place Then
when the fame Of these women farmers had
Travelled far, and pc 1ple came from distance to
inspect personally their success, Solomon began
to feel proud OF saying Yes sir, they are my
| girls.
four girls are all boys them said one smil.
ing. quoting Rip Van Wrinkle.
'Inst rs good rs boys said Solomon Brown
blushlng, at the retractioD Of old sentiments
But theories must fall before convictions, and
well filled wheat, tu4 potatoes, good corn, etc
We're more convincing 10 Solomon ufhis dangh.
ters' worth, than volumes favoring The "Snb-
lection Of Woman
| Solomon Browns daughters still hold old ia.
cob's farm. Lucy the youngest, is married 10
Frank LAWYER but instead Of her going home
TO him, as s the manner of the world, he came
home 10 her.
Under the homestead laws woman that ISM
at the head of famiy-that is widow canno
pre-empt land. If this was not the case, / dc
believe, that one of Solomon Browns GIRL.
womb go west and take up piece of land. A,
ii Is, they are all going in the spring and Solo
mon will enter a hundred and sixty acres in hi.
own name which in reality belong To his daugh
! Tors, as It will be purchased with The profits o
THEN farming J,r0b Sloams land