The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-10

stored. When you work, work; and
when you get through take a good, long
and refreshing rest.
AS l said before, you should live in
villages, so that you can have the ad-
vantages of social life. In your little
village you can have reading-room.
You can take papers and magazines.
You can have plenty of books, and each
can have the benefit of all. Some of
your young men and women can cult
vate music. You can have social gather
ings; you can learn from each other; you
can discuss all topics of interest, and in
this way you can make farming as de-
lightful business as there is in the
world. You must keep up with the age
in which you live. The way to make
farming respectable is for farmers to be-
come intelligent. They must live intelli-
gent and happy lives. The business
must be attractive; and it never will be
as long as the farmer has no leisure.
| am believer in fashion, and want
every woman to make herself as beauti-
full and attractive as she possibly can.
want every man to look his very best
as always do. am believer in good
clothes. do not want the time to come
when you can tell farmers wife or a
farmers daughter simply by the clothes
she wears. I say to every woman, no
matter what the material of your dress
is, no matter how cheap it may be, cut it
in the latest fashion and wear it if it
nearly kills you. And / believe in Jew
elry. Some people look upon jewelry as
barbaric, but in my judgment wearing
jewelry is the first evidence the barbara
an gives of wish to become civilized.
To adorn ourselves is part of our nature
and this desire seems to be everywhere
and in everything. The desire for
beauty in nature covers the earth with
flowers. 1t is that desire that paints the
wings of moths; It is that desire that
gives to the bird its plumage and its
song. And so say to all the wives and
all the daughters, adorn yourselves and
look as beautiful as you can.
wish to call your attention to another
thing Own land if possible. Do not
rent an acre if you can avoid it. There
can be no such thing as home unless you
own it. There must be an incentive to
plant trees, to beautify the grounds To
own a home tends to elevate the owner.
1t gives certain independence, a certain
force of character, that is obtained in no
other way. 1t makes US patriotic. The
owner of a home is willing to defend his
home. The grandeur of our country de-
ponds upon the number of our people
who are the owners of their homes.
Around the tireside of home grow and
bloom the social virtues. Raise your
sons to be independent, to pursue some
business for themselves. Raise them to
be selfreliant, to act upon their own re-
sponsibility; and teach them above all
things to preserve their independence
and self-respect.
Above all, let every farmer treat his
wife and children with kindness. Give
them every advantage for culture.
They will grow about you like flowers;
they will fill your life with joy and per-
fume; they will fill your home with
sunshine and your lives with happiness.
See to it that they have ali the comforts
and all the conveniences of life that
you can possibly give them. Give them
the advantage of every Improvement as
soon as you can. Try and make life a
perpetual delight. Recollect that cook
ing is ono of the fine arts. 1t takes far
more sense to be excellent OUvh Unan
a tolerable lawyer. l am a good cook
myself, and l have no accomplishment
of which / am so proud. The farmers
should have good things to cook and
good things to cook with. Of all peo-
Pile in our country, you should live the
best. Throw your miserable little stoves
out of the window. Get ranges; and
have them so built that your wife need
not burn her face off to get you break
fast. 1t is just as cheap to have every
thing convenient. 1t is just as easy to
cook well as to cook any other way.
There ought to be law passed making
it a crime, punishable with imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary, to fry beef
steak. Broil it; it is just as easy; and
when broiled it is delicious. Fried
beefsteak isn't fit for beast. Give
your wives and daughters the conven-
fences, and in little while they will be
most excellent cooks. Good cooking is
one of the highest arts of civilization;
and we are more indebted to this art
in developing real manhood than to al
most any other. The man whose arte-
ries are filled with good, rich blood,
made of good and well-cooked food, has
pluck, courage, endurance and noble i'm
pulses. You must remember that if
you wish your wife to cook well, she
must have the conveniences to cook
with. See to it that there is plenty of
good wood, plenty of good coal, plenty
of good kindling and plenty to cook.
There is no reason why farmers should
not have fresh meat all the year round.
There is no sense in stuffing yourself
with salt meat every morning, and max
ing well of yourself for the balance of
the day, and then wondering why you
don't enjoy good health. There is no
sense in this.
Make your homes pleasant. Have
your houses warm and comfortable for
the winter Do not build a story and-a-
half house. The half story is an oven,
in which during the summer you will
bake every night, and feel in the morn
ing as though only rind of yourself
was left. Decorate your rooms, even if
you do so with cheap engravings; they
are better than none. Have books; have
papers; read them. You have more
leisure than the jewellers in cities.
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