Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-29

There is an old ballad of the farmer
who boosted that he did as much work
in day as his wife could do in seven.
Il ae: sS5aa ~ a pfGp she
would GO into the field. After giving
Him careful directions for his work next
morning, She left the house and did not
come until night. She found the old
man with his head tied up where the
COW had kicked him bind; the milk all
soaking in the ground; the hens strayed
away and all their eggs laid where the
old man could not.find them; the calf
missing and everything gone wrong,
everything topsyturvey. The old
farmer took it all back and agreed that
it was his wife who could do. more
work in day than he could do in
seven.
A New York young fellow, hauled up
last week before a magistrate for lazi-
ness and refusal to support his wife.
had very much the same notion of
woman's work as the old farmer in the
| ballad. In, answer to the Judges ques-
tons he grumbled that he was sick and
tired of standing behind a counter all
day, and therefore took much-needed
rest. but the baby and starve in the
| meantime demonstrated the wife. He
said he loved her too we'll tor that, but
she couldn't expect fellow to kill HIM
self, could she? She naturally thought
there was very little danger of that.
e Then sudden thought. struck him.
"Tll tell you what I'll, do, Nrllie,' said
he. "You take my place in the store
| anil i will attend to the household
duties.'' His wife expressed a good
deal of amusement at the idea, but he
| repeated his offer. "You must have a
nice .time,''- said he, ':your, work is
awfully casy." The wife answered she
would be only too glad of the change,
and agreed to swap occupations.
Now" said she, ''you must get up in
the morning and make the fire, prepare
the breakfast. mind the baby The
husband stopped her right. there, and
gave her to understand that she would
have to take the baby to the store with
I her. s'Not bit of it." was her
answer. ."You are taking care of the
household and that a part of it, He
| protested that, as she knew, the baby's
insisted that if he took her place he
must look to her duties. She told the
magistrate she was willing to take her
husbands place in the store, and that
official was about to arrange the affair
on that basis. Just here her husband
was very skeptical about her being able
to stand it; thought she had better at
tend to the household and he would go
back to the store. The Justice re-
marked that 'the baby settled him."
which was a much wiser observation
than some of the more elaborate and
longer decisions which come from the
bench. sr- 80" 80
AS a matter of fact man is not
well-titted to endure the petty annoy
ances and has no patience with the
petty cares, which make up large
part of women's domestic work. If
women have no business tact or capa-
city, men, on theoth hand, have lit
tie of the infinite painstaking in the
| dull routine of house service that
women attend to eSyry' day in their
lives. The affair seems to have been
pretty we'll arranged by Providence,
The backs and the burdens of the sexes
seem mutually and respectively adj
| justed to one another, and so the world
| wobbles on after it's fashion of the last
several thousand years., and is not
likely, in this respect at least, to fly
the track Tor a good many years to
come. -DetrOit Free Press. s,... =