Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-12-11
Piano VS. Plow.
BY MRS. JULIA A. CARNEY.

If your daughters, or sors, have
a taste for music, cultivate it as
literally as your means Will allow,
and never fear 1t will not ray you
back as well as your finest field of
wheat. 1t will not hinder the pillow |
Never fear that. The r'owbos's
whistle is proverbiai, and don't we
all know be plows the faster for his
whistling? His Dor es are enliVened
by it, aud speed the faster through
the field, His own fatigue, and the
heat of the day, are disregarded
and uufelt.
1T the spring work drives, let yonr
daughters help. They can ride on
The corn.planter as easily and grace
fully as in an elegau: carriage, and
far more usefully. Then, when they
ara through the spring work, and
everything is growing without their
aid, let them in the pleasant even
TIDE gather around the piano, sons
and daughters both, and be sure
that the piano is good one You
would not use poor old pillow
know family of eight daugh.
ters. diversified by only ono baby
boy. Beautiful, intelligent. grace.
ful girls they are, too; but they as.
sist their father through his miles
of grain as well as if they belonged
to the Steiner sex.
who is that young lady, asked
|, the first time | saw the eldest.
She looks as If she was made for q
queen
so she was, replied my friend.
'Shs reigns over more hearts than
any one | know. Her father calls
her his right-hand man. added he
laughingly, for, being an invalid
himself, he could hardly manage the
farm without her..
She does got actually work upon
it herself? 2 queried |, in astonish-
ment; why. her hands are white
and slender as any lady's can be-
And useful es many lady's can
not be- said be. She helps her
mother get M 9 good dinuer, or her
father tc get in field Of corr, with
equal ability. Last week he wanted
a plow repaired, but, it being a
rainy day, dareo not venture out in
his fee BILE health. She said she had
a little shopping to do 10 town. and
so, harnessing their splendid horses
with her own hands to the large
farm wagon, she took the piow to
the black smith. Proceeding to town,
she maize her purchases, aud on her
return called for the plow, and
broaghl it home
She had not physical strength to
manage and lift plow, surely ?
NO; but she had meptel strepg th
10 deeise ways and means to accom-.
piish her ends. | asked her how she
lifted it into the wagon. On said
she, mother helped me at home, and
h blacksmith did il at the shop.
Every one helps those who help
themselves, she added, with WON.
ans skill in applying a moral
That lady has splendid piano
draws music from il, too; ana makes
II assist 10 maintaining and educa..
ting her younger sisters, by giving
music lessons to all IN her neigh.
borhood who have a talent therefor,
and whose parents are sensible
enough TO cultivate it as we'll as
their corn and potatoes.
Farmers, advice is cheap. A vast
amount of it is gwen gratis now. g.
days. But don's you ever listen to
word that will divorce the useful
from the beautiful, either 10 the
management of you and,or the ed
ucation, especially the home educa-
zion, of your children. They ueed
flowers as much as they need food +;
books and papers as much as they
need any thing under heaven. Be
thankful, Western farmers especial.
ly, that you can tffJrd both pillow
aud piano and let no one persuade
you the one will interfere with the
| other. Let no eagerness in laying
up portion in the bsnk,or in bond.
ed estate for your children, prevent
our laying up tor them the mem
DRY OF home Of culture and simple
elegance. So train the vines, ha @
up 'The Yosemite Valley and Nj.
agara,' buy the piano, and subscribe
tor some valuable paper or periodl
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