The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1874-05-06
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"llc Lucy, III the evening, "you
could never guess what those girls
lmvo DONE"
"Pcrhaps purchased each n now
silk" growlcd Solomon, without
lifting his eyes from his paper.
mo, indeed, not" cried the wife
Indignantly. "Theyve rented ia.
cob Sloam's farm-cighty acres, and
twenty of it. in fruit"
"What," cried Solomon, the papc!
falling helplessly at his feet 'Yov
don't surely mean or girls, not
Matilda, and Josephine, and Sarah,
and Flora, and Lucy?"
81 mean no one elsc's girls sure,
ly," the wife replied, little cross
ly. "They take possession in the
morning. Jacob Sloan is to find
everything, and they are to have
one~half."
81 just tell you, Lucy, what it is.
This is the most consummatc peace
OF mlmbug ever heard of. It will
be dead failure, and they'll make
themselves the laughing stock Of the
ncighborhood. Farming, indeed
! Why Tilda is that afraid of her
hand that she never sweeps even,
without gloves and Flora wraps
her head in towel to dust. I've
seen Josephine do the breakfast
things with the dish rag clinging to
Il fork, and Sarah wraps hor fingers
with bit Of cloth. each one separ,
atcly if she has the vegetables to
prepare. Brave farmers they will
make - And Solomon Brown went
back to his paper with scornful
chuckle
Solomon, too, was some of u fogy.
| Women were women, and women
they must remain to the end of the
chapter. a great pity, he had often
said, that IL was SO, but nature could
not be tortured out of her old, well
worn channels by education. Eve,
he considered, as having been u vi
cious sort of little body, bonding
poor Adam S nose down close to the
grindstone, and there her daugh
ters had relentlessly held it, through
all of the long years since that first
tragedy.
Solomon believed III PROCESSION
tIe thought that the sciences might
be better understood, that new dis
covcries were to be made; that the
Atlantic would be crossed in q bal
loon but Solomon's radicalism
didn't include the possibilities of
tho coming woman. She was to be
what she had boon from the begin
ming. SO he pooh-poohcd at his
daughters farming, not believing
that any good thing should come
out of Nazareth.
1t was M up hill road to those
five dainty daughters of Solomon
Browns. But in ono thing they
rcsemblcd their father. They were
obstinate, and when they learned his
prediction as to their failure, they
were quite determined not to fail.
They were up early and worked
late. Their Strawberries were a
success. They gave employment to
a number of girls in the village in
gathering their small fruits, thus re-
cognizing the true policy, that wo-
men must help each other. They
kept one hired man, and under his in
structions these young ladies learn
ed 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 wo-
men farmers had travelled far, and
people came from q distance to in
spect personally their success, Solo
mon began to feel proud in saying,
eyes, sir, they are my girls"
"Your girls are all boys then ??
said one smiling, quoting Rip Van
Winkle.
"Just as good as boys" said
Solomon Brown blushing, at the
rctraction of old sentiments. But
theories must fall before convictions
and well filled wheat, fine potatoes
good corn, etc, were more convin
cling to Solomon of his daughters
worth, than volumes favoring the
"Subjection of Woman"
Solomon Browns daughters still
hold Jacob Sloam's farm. Luc,
the youngest, is married to Franl
Lawler, but instead of her going
homo to him, as is the mann or O.
the world, he came home to her.
Under the homestead laws n wo
man that ism t at the head of u fami
ly-that is q widow-cannot pre-
cmpt land. If this was not the
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