Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-11-22

HELP YOUR WIFE.

In these money-lOving times, the American
nation is in danger of injuring their race by
over-working their wives. Let the farmers
especially pause and consider whether they
are not committing this sin. Many good
man has killed his wife in this way. He is 80
taken up with his own work on the farm, that
he never thinks what his wife is doing, 50 his
meals are ready and the household affairs
run smoothly. When his days work is done,
he sleeps soundly and is rested and ready for
another, little dreaming that his faithful wife
is laying awake because her back aches, and
her limbs ache and jerk from the over-strain
of the days work when morning comes, she
has it all to do over again, whether rested or
tired.
I have seen some families, and they were
good people too, in which have thought it
would be blessing if the husband could
break his leg, and be obliged to sit still in the
house, when he could count the five hundred
and one times his wife walked from her kitchen
to her dining-room, and then with pencil and
paper, calculate the number of miles of walk
ing he could save her by putting them closer
together. He might not be able to pick up
the spring and put it at the kitchen door, but
if he were studying the subject very hard, it
would occur to him, that he, or one of his
men, could bring her few buckets of water
before he started to his work, thereby saving
her the walking and the hard strain of carry
ing water. ct would not take many weeks
under this arrangement to make eistern at
the kitchen door appear necessity; yet his
poor wife has been carrying it for years.
whether tired or not.) Nor do l believe that
there are any of our farmers 80 stupid that
they could not study out many ways to help
their wives, with very little trouble to them
selves and at small cost.
When the husband has done his part faith.
fully, and the work is made easy enough not
to weary his wife, she must have some recrea'
tion along with the work, to rest her mind.
As you, Mr.. Editor, pleasantly remarked on
this subject: Zone who is occupied is never
dreary, but that occupation, like well-set
table, must have variety. Beans eighteen
times week, and three times on Sunday,
will, in time, induce US to wish that beans
we're some where else except in this world
So, the man who wishes his wife to be his
counsellor and friend, as we'll as his cook,
must see that she has time to rest her mind as
we'll as her body, and indulge her taste for the
beautiful, which is one of woman's instincts,
and cannot be denied her without dwar6ng
her capacities.
Let the wife remember, it is the good her
work does, rather than the amount of it, that
measures her usefulness in this world. The
woman who takes time to say pleasant, en-
couraging word, to the little child she meets.
and sends it on its way happy; who will listen
to and sympathize with the sorrow that is
weighing down her neighbours heart, and by
praying with her for help from God to enable
her to bear her trials sends her home to her
husband and little ones with happy heart,
strengthened and encouraged to take up her
daily burdens, which before seemed too much
for her; who is always happy and bright
when her husband comes in and has leisure to
wait upon him when he needs it or to sympa-
thize with and support him if any trouble
weighs him down. This woman is doing
more good in the world than if she had all her
house in perfect order, the last button sewed
on, and plenty of clothes made ahead to last
for years. do not say she must not sew or
attend to her house work-not at all but let
these be laid aside whenever she can find an
opportunity to do good deed, which will be
blessing to her here, and treasure in
Heaven, where thieves do not break through
nor steal.-A LADY WHO LOVES COUNTRY
LIFE, in the Southern Planter and Farmer.