Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-29

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specimens of angels in fact, | am afraid
merely a caricature of the genuine article.
In this age and generation we have. ladies
with pale, refined faces, taultlessly dressed
and perfectly clean, who assume the. role
OF angels laacecoerding to their imperfect ideas),
to perfection. Q.mean when visible to the
outside worldly Can any one suppose for
a ome in a sensible point of view that
this model (for whose perfections almost ev-
cry schoolgirl is striving) was really intend
ed by an all-wise Creator to represent a
true woman? Surely not.
Is not the healthy, happy, earnest, busy
woman, who is not too eathereal to be use
1tl and not so angelic as to be faultless,
much to be preferred tor this world and it's
cares and perplexities, whatever we may
choose for the next? The towns and cities
have largely gone after the first model; it
remains for the country, if we would AVE
a higher type of humanity and a progressive
fortune, to hold fast to the last. The farm
ers' families of these United States must yet
be the salvation of our country. They are
the reserve which is yet to fill the depleted
ranks of what some please to call the refin-
ed class of society.
L have been found guilty of encouraging
farmers wives in doing their duty, regard
less of these false, over-wrought ideas, and
also of counseling them to be more self-re-
liant n independent, and | am reminded
by a nudge of somebody's elbow of the
" responsibility of WRITER'S" And [ am also
aware of the fate awaiting those who step
out of the beaten paths. Yet / would teach
them, if | could, to use their best Judgment
and common sense and to sift well thechaff
from the wheat. ~
[ would have them make their houses
resting places for tired people; places in
which rest would be sweet, because Of the
cheerfnlness and LONELINESS and comfort
of it's surroundings. [ would have them set
their tables to feed hungry people and grow
ing children, rather than dainty, useless
parasites.
Over and through all these things should
be an all-peryading atmosphere of truth
and honesty and purity and frankness, out
of which no cringing miscreant could creep
to curse society. If we must in the dim,
distant future nave something to strive for,
some ideal to reach and realize, let it be such
as this, rather than a fanciful vision which
God never intended we should reliZe here.
There is no room for drones in this world,
or should not be. If one person does not
earn their bread others must be taxed be-
You'd their share to provide it. Pretty and
edifying as these people may be, who stand
round like Dickens old Mr.. T%uryydrop as
specimens of department, we can spare them
very we'll ; especially when we remember
that our evenings go to provide bread for
their worthless bodies. Let.us stand by our
principles earnestly, and bring up our chill
dren to scorn to eat the bread Of dependence
and idleness. And if we do what our hands
find to do cheerfully and hopefully, when
the heat and burden OF the day is past we
shall reap a great reward. We have not far
to look to-day in our country to'see the re-
ward of extravaganza and idleness. Ruined
lives covered with shame and disgrace
are seen in many .places. Their day was
short and full of splcndor, but their evening
is full of bitterness instead of rest and sweet
cOntent.-CSr. RaeeaL Press.
The VEST PoCKETs.-A young man from
one of the suburban districts was in one of
our tailor shops getting measured for a vest
the other afternoon. married or unmar-
ried?' querried the merchant, after taking
down the number. "Unmarried,'' said the
young man with, a blush. "Insidsa pocket
on the left-hand side, then,'' observed the