Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-01-24
Word 10 Farmers.


fourteen, provide your wife with more
than one bakepan and skillet. See
that she has at least one set of earth
enware that is not broken and little
crorkery that is not cracked.
There is no reason Why you should
not have happy home if you are a
farmer, why you should,not treat your
wife and daughter with consideration
and kindness. Make Your cottage
comfortable and cheerful. Fill it with
joy and sunshine, and let your family
grow about it like flowers. Plant trees,
cultivate your gardens, adorn your
dwellings, and decorate your rooms.
Put some plants around the front
fence and a pot of flowers by the
doorway, even if there be no market
value to them. They will certify to
your culture and refinement, and put
a blossom in your heart that viii be
worth more than money, Aa
Give up the foolish idea that you
will be ruined and have to mortgage
your farm if you happen to put the
hog -pen back Of the house and morn
ing glories in front Of 1t. II you do
not get up at 8 o'clock in the morning
and drag your family from their beds
in the darkness of night to resume
their irksome toll. Take feature for
reading, thinking. enjoyment and i'm
proving the minds and social natures
of your wives and children. Keep up
with discoveries and thoughts of the
day, and let love and happiness
as we'll as labor and gain be the oh
ject of life ON the farm. .
Happiness can be had, even out of
the ground. Make farming q source
of happiness to yourself and family.
1t Is far easier, pleasanter, and more
profitable to carry on farm in the
right way--to make comfortable
home and pleasant surroundings, and
feel that your family is contented, and
that you are gentleman instead of a
clodhopper. There is no need of
making tilling the soil repulsive to
have it pay. no need Of having lonely
and,uncomfortable homes. Make it a
business to be proud of. As class,
you are the only really independent
people, and you might be the happiest
and most ensied. But you must make
it something besides hard-handed
labor, something besides continual
care and treadmill toll.
You want your wife to- be- a house
keeper, partner, a helpmate, in the
happiest sense Of the work. Then
consider her comfort and convience
as we'll as your own. Don't try to
leach her the art of making fires with
out fuel DonItscod her if the din>
uer Is little late because she had to
go down into the clearing to dig the
potatoes. Don't swear because she
dropped the bucket into the we'll that
you had tied on the sweep with an
old rotten rope. g... u III 81
The lives of many wives are hardly
worth living. They are slaves OF
hard and unrequited toll. Weary,
wasted, worked down and
WORKOUT lives ill thousands of
homes with grief and shame. For
one we clamor fora radical and i'm
change. If husbands are
not able to hire help, let them help |
their wivestbemse'ves. See that they
have the hest Of everything to work |
with. Have good cellars and cisterns,
plenty of coal and wood, and some
hing for washing better than barrel
and a board. Ft-e .,.-m Cd |
You want your boys to stay with
you. Then don't make the farm 50
lreary and desolate, and farming such
\ drudgery, that they will start off to
own the day they are twenty-one to
each school, drive stage, study theo-
ogy or get married. Make it 80 at
ractive that they had rather remain
n the dear old home Of their child
lood than to go out into the great
)oisterous world to become even
,oroners or constables.s If you wish |
o succeed as farmer, if you want to
i'll your fields with sunshine and all
your years with joy, make home pleas,
INIT, andtreat your wife and children
With kindness. - Condensed from Cor
of the New York Physi' |