Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-01-01
Gaotes department.
For the VERMONT FARMER.
Woman's Place.

to have us contribute to his columns if as he
says we are "trying to make society BETTER"
let us heed the good advice and season our
discussions with so much grace aud love
that no such advice will be needed, though
given SO kindly. My absence from home
has left me in ignorance of what the Former
mas been doing, but if IL is not too late in
Che day would like to answer my good
Fayston sister. She says am after her
with "sharp stick" but fail to say why
think woman's labor Is more degrading out
of door than in the house.
She goes back to the timo of creation.
Why did not God create woman first 1t
shows plainly that man has to become wo-
mans protector Il admit, however, that
sometimes he is poor one,) now at the
time of Gods placing Adam and Eve in the
garden of Eden, he does not say anything
about "pig" being there, 70 SHRED girl"
or "queen of sheba" or the "little Gains
and Abels," but simply "male and female
created he them" After their fall what was
the curse pronounced upon man it was this;
lu the sweat of thy face shalt thou cat
bread" Womans curse was a different one
altogether. | find nowhere in holy writ
command from God for woman to labor.
st. Paul says women are to be "teachers of
good things" "keepers at home.
But this does not prove that woman has
not work to do,-labor to perform. Wo
have all agreed thus far, that labor is hon
orable, and. that woman has field of labor,
but we are all unsettled as to where that .
field is located, there are as many minds
about it as writer's and each must be their
own judge of what they can and cannot do.
1t is right for man and wife to help each
other, just as it ought to be, and if / had
one Of those "lords of creation" | might help
him so much that he would tell me, as
heard dignifed "lord" tell his wife, to ego
into the house aud attend to her business"
would not thank a man to tell me where
should do my work, when | should do it,
or how l should do it, neither do / think
man that is a man would want his wife to
meddle with his affairs at the barns, etc., and
it is just as right for man to stand ready
with his sleeves rolled up to help his wife,
as it is for her to stand ready to help him.
| The old maxim is "what is sauce for the
goose is sauce for the--other animal" If
1t is womans place to work out Of doors as
you think, to get Goods pure air" (thatS the
only thing you claim she ought to have for
her health, instead of working over stovel
let her work the roads, plow, reap, build
churches and colleges, build the noble bridges
that span our rivers, lay railroad tracks aud
telegraph cables, build ships and command
them. According to our sisters theory this
is all woman's work she has no permanent
place or standing but to do Just what comes
along indoors Or out.
We don't expect man is going to care for
our children as mothers do guide their in
fant feet to the threshold of manhood and
womanhood, set pure examples before
them, be their confdant in their childish
griels, watch over them, pray Tor them with
the same earnestuess that one of old did
when he said, 81 will not let thee 90 except
thou bless me-" looking forward to the time
when their sons and daughters will make
noble men and women, all these things we
do not expect from father as we do from o
mother. Though he may be kind, fond pa
rent, it is not mans nature. Our sister says
that woman has "more endurance than man"
| admit she has in her way Of enduring.
caring for the sick in her noble, silent way,
toiling night after night, bearing hardships
that would PROSTATE man, bearing griefwith
a holy calmness that comes from a holier and
higher power, laying her little ones away
from earth with faith that looks beyond
the grave but because she has all these pow
ers, has she the "enlurance" that man has 10
labor in the field? No there is diuding
line, or else God intended man and woman
should mingle together like the birds Of the
|
ask my sister two questions; If woman's
place is working with the men out of doors,
where is mans place? and if woman must
bear up her "end Of the yoke" where is her
end2 l believe woman was created for Il
noble lifelong work, and that her influence
extends all around her, but because God gave
her finer nerves, finer feelings, it doesn't fol-
low that she has the power Of enduring
mans work with her own. Who would be
willing to place themselves beside the "ln-
dian aud negro woman" both slaves, one a
slave to her husband, the other to her mas
ter? No instead of going back ler us 60
on and on far beyond man in purity and
goodness, in noble, virtuous deeds and Christ
like action, SO mans tongue cannot SANDER
us, and if they dare do it it shall not be true
of us. Oh that woman, 1oOman would
prove faithful to her trust, scorning to do a
mean action daring to do right
ADVANCE.
Fairtar, Dec 8.