The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-03-07

esting and true experience, "How Two
Girls Tried Farming The aforementioned
tells how things NAV be managed at the
West, where they have such lavish returns
Each section has its own Disadvantages as
well as compensations, but any one can find
opportunities without going far.
There seems no reason why girls should
not "take"-ss it is callei-a email piece of
raise on it, If they are ignorant
OF the methods of farming, get books
that will tell them, ask intelligent men who
know. Very soon their quick wits, which
are never st a loss over "fancy- work." no
matter how intricate, will settle the diff
Guilty. Last year boy of eighteen raised
from such patch fifty bushels of potatoes,
which he sold on the spot for thirty-fve
cents bushel; and his entire labor, in
GLIDING the putting on of Paris green to
kill the Colorado beetles, took him but @
few days. Why could not girl do that7
Not necessarily with potatoes, but with
some cleaner, more agreeable crop.
Girls are pressing into almost everything.
They do not shrink from undertaking many
occupations which have been supposed 70
belong to the other sex.
1t Is, therefore, no time to object on the
ground of unsuitableness, improperly or
in ielicacy.
There is many New England maiden
who has dropped corn in her fathers field.
and who remembers with delight those
mornings in May, or early June, when the
ppie-blossoms fell In the burrows and the
air was musical with the songs Of many
birds. Her childhood had few things
pleasanter. What q new departure il
would be for some farmers daughter to
have little glebe Of her own to experiment
uponl working in the fresh mornings OF
the spring and early summer, and receiv-
ing rich return in the autumn. It is the
beauty of tilling the soil that after short
period of labor and watchfulness, there
comes long rest for the owner while
plants are growing.
1t is not to be expected that girls will dc
much at farming; but they might interest
themselves in matters that belong to coun-
try life, and the might earn something in
some ofthese ways, which would not hinder
their doing much Woodwork, much house
work, and having much leisure. And il
would seem as if there might be some CO.
operative arrangement by which over
worked sewing girls from the cities might
be benefited, finding q place with ADLER
ones of their ewn sex where cheerful,
Wholesome duties would furnish them with
employment.
But they must not expect TO grow rich
they would not even have as much money,
perhaps, as if they were clerks or shop.girls
or seamstresses, though they might DO bet
ter off in every good sense. Two or three
or more girls with fair share Of Yankee
faculty" or Western smartness. when
means foresight, thrift and calculation,
might find it profitable. They could make
the different kinds of work 1t nicely. What
one did not like or could not do would just
suIt another.
As for the fatigue of it, it is no harder to
drive horse when he is drawing load of
grain than when harnessed to pheton
1t requires no more exposure to rake hay
than to play at Iawn-tennis-you will see
young people out in the blazing gun engaged
IN this game.
1t is no greater draft upon the strength
in the long run to take care of a garden
than to fit gowns, or practice on the piano,
or promenade the streets in that wearisome
and often foolish business called shopping"
But one must make up her mind not to
be ashamed of her calling. She must IN
derstand that it is just as creditsble to know
how 10 transplant celery.root, or hoe hill
of beans, as to embroidery q smoling-csp
or psir of slippers; that she is not necesss-
rily any less lady when at work with 6
trowel than if making Macrsme lses. II is
the person who dignifes or degrades the
the vocation. There is nothing in the mere
fact of out-of-door labor that is q. ell low
ering. The influences are refining and en-
nobling-
Sun and cir, flowers and trees, the changes
on the earth and in the sky, the companion
ship of bird and bee, the presence Of domes-
tic snimals-those dumb creatures whom
the maker of all has given unto our caro-
all these are constant and unfailing helps to
q true and pure, sweet and simple, life.