Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-27
The Household of the Momentum.

-, Inc comfort and convenience ~ The
household has too long been NEGLECTED
among our farmers. The xoryv and
oustie OF life has made. Them forSetful
OF one great fact: That werk Is not the
chief end of man. They seem. TO fb;n[
w, mat no work is of much importance
J tner OWN. Farm and-uut-door
hor - - work. household labor-the la
49, Don ~ women-is puttering. And they
em 70 nave overlooked the fact al
~ OF MANS having brain that
..ein iood -h 1T is expected TO de-
seioP' when our farmers can be made.
~ Tee snree things. you may be sure the
m;n Is not far off These three
a 1nlngs are: lst. That we are made fol-.
?olhe.hing more than drudges; thatman
lsenot mere machine Sd That the.
Mefk woman has to perform Is lust as as.
an1iP 'pr, the work man performs.
gu gu = nat It Is a crime against mankind
-, starVe the brain, and leave itunde-T
sEEtF irlf nfJr Z
w men men realize that work is a
means To am end. and that end is, to get
as muchi enjoyment out of life as We
possibly can, there will be airevolution
IN the land There will be Hess 'stirite.,,
ana more leisure to get acquSintedwiflI,
our own families. We will let The. SAN
SHINE into our lives, too many Of which
are now like closed rooms. Life was
niaue 10 hcein, and not merely to eria
IN ana any man who looks upon work
as the adl-important aim of life; docs;
nothing but exist. His existence is n not.
ttuly htes IN the wide, best sense, of the
WORD. But we shall not have laziness
SsetSahss-the PIaes--0f-work-- Men will.
, work In the millennium, but they will
not work as slaves do-as nfanvYffen do
now They will work in the hight of
new wisdom, that will maka-au work
grand andZalevating. rather~than de-
grading andn demoralizing. as much OF
of our present woraSis.
I'm the good ti46 comm g.,,-wamaIfs
work will have Justice donen. Woman
viii be,reeegpizedehs the help-meet."
and Ret as the dependent. Her DEPART
ment of labor will be as much looked
after as thatof the-husband's He will
have his reapers and his mowers: his
sulky-plews. rakes, and .cultiyators:
everything that gehius invents tolighten
LABOR he w1iluse. 1T will be the same
In, the house There will be a Bread
MIXER IN the millennium, and wash
-machinest doesn't-vex,theri right
cons soul OF the one who uses it: there
Will be an open fire on the hearth, light
ing the room. pleasantly and warming
it healthfulE; There will be.a wood,
shed next to, every Kitchen, and 1t will
never be empty. There -avill be water
at hand, and no cellar under the house.
The conveniehces of a millehnial Kitchen
viii mike womanis workeasy and
pleasant, and sheIxill carryits sys-
tematicallysA And 1there Swill DE
patent dish-Washerr / am sure of that.
And every household in that. good
time to como, wilLhhve books and pa
Pers from which to feed mind and
there VIII be such a devslopmsnt of
brain that the world viii find itself in
an era of greater, broader fhought than
it has ever known before There will
be music; and pictures on the walls, and
beautyeyaywhere. And the shappiest
hour of. the day will be the evening one.
when the family come together, re-
freshed, not tired out, by the Intelligent.
judioious work Of the day. There will
be something to talk about beyehd mere
neighborhOod gossip. The growingand
expanding mind will seek. new. knowl-
edge, apd all selements. VII mingle in
one harmonious whole, and the motto
of each home will be, (lu.t it will not be
done in cardboard, } The true life is
one that deyelons9 ali nap'sGfaculties
to his greatest good, and the good of
those around him n'ff-Eben E., Rertord,
az Wsstern H9wnqn. ...,r,s--.'tI