The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-04-20
The Household of the Millennium.

The comfort and convenience Of the
household has too long been neglected
among our farmers. The worry and
hustle of life has made them forgetful
of one great fact: That work is not the
chief end of man. They seem to think,
too, that no work is of much importance
save their own. Farm and outdoor
work as work; household labor-the la
Dor of women-ls puttering. And they
seem to have overlooked the fact al
together of mans having a brain that
demands food if it is expected to de-
velop. When our farmers can be made
to see three things, you may be sure the
millennium is not far off. These three
things are: 1st That we are made for
something more than drudges; that man
is not mere machine. ID That the
work woman has to perform is just as
important as the work man performs.
Sd. That it is crime against mankind
to starve the brain, and leave it unde-
yeloped.
When men realize that work is a
means to an end, and that end is, to get
as much enjoyment out of life as we
possibly can, there will be a revolution
in the land. There viii be less .sdrive,' .
and more leisure to get acquainted with
our own families. We will let the sun
shine into our lives, too many of which
are now like closed rooms. Life was
made to LiUe in, and not merely to erist
In, and any man who looks upon work
as the all-important aim of life does
nothing but exist. His existence is not
truly life, in the wide, best sense. of the
word. But we shall not have laziness
taking the place of work. Men will
work in the millennium, but they will
not work as slaves do-as many men do
now. They will work in the light of
new wisdom, that will MAKE all work
grand and eleyating, rather than de-
grading and demoralizing, as much of
of our present work is.
In the ''good time coming woman's
work will have justice done it. Woman
will be recognized as the help-meet,''
and not as the dependent. Her depart
ment of labor will be as much looked
after as that of the husbands. He will
have his reapers and his mowers; his
sulky-plows, rakes and cultivators;
everything that genius invents to tighten
labor he will use. 1t will be the same
in the house. There will be a bread
mixer, in the millennium, and wash
ing-machine that doesn't vex the right
eous soul of the one who uses it; there
will be an open fire on the hearth, light
ing the room pleasantly and warming
1t healthfully. There will be a wood
shed next to. every kitchen, and it will
never be empty. There will be water
at hand, and no cellar under the house.
The conveniences of millennial kitchen
will make woman's work easy and
pleasant, and she will carry it on sys-
tematically. And-there will be a
patent dish-washer! / am sure of that.
And every household in that good
time to come, will have books and pa
pers from which to feed the mind, and
there will be such development of
brain that the world will find itself in
an era of greater, broader thought than
it has ever known before. There will
be music, and pictures on the walls, and
beauty everywhere. And the happiest
hour Of the day viii be the evening one,
when the family come together, re-
freshed, not tired out, by the Intelligent,
judicious work of the day. There will
be something totalk aboutbeyond mere
neighborhood gossip. The growing and
expanding mind win seek new knowl-
edge, and all elements will mingle in
one harmonious whole, and the motto
OF each home will be, (but it will not be
done in card-board) 1.-THE true life is
one that develops all mans faculties
to his greatest good and the good of
those around him ''-E6epa 3. Rerford.
IN Western Ploe0nad2.