The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-02-20
Home Lie.

Home Lie.
Brother farmers, did yon or do yoh ev-
er think that there are other duties for
you on the farm than cultivating corn and
cotton? Do you realize that 1t 10 NJ much
your Christian duty as anything else, that
you make home happy and cheerful for
your wife and children? Do you know
that you are committing great sin when
You kill your wife with oyerwork; when
you put on her the duties of nursing the
children-making and mending their
clothes, and doing your cooking, wash
ing and milking? Do you know that on
" In the South are women made to do
the milking, while the men folks sit
around doing nothing! Do you know
that it is your Christian duty to have,
for your wife, all the little conyenicnces
that will tighten her labor, and that
none but savage would put the labor
Of working the vegetable garden on his
wife; and that the man who fails t. pro-
vide good vegetable garden for his fam
lily Is worse than . heather? And you,
my good sisters, do your duty and learn
how to cook the food your husband or
father provides for the household; do you
study your business and try to set your
table 20 1t will be nice and tempting, or
do you depend on boiled bacon and corn
bread to keep soul and body together?
One Of the great faults of farmers Is :
that they work too much and read too
little. There never Was greater lie ut
tered than the oft-repcated adage:
EARLY to bed. early to rise,
Makes you healthy, wealthy, and wise"
The man who rises at 4 n. m, and
works till 8 p. m, will never be either
rich, wise, or healthy his intellect will be
dwarfed, his body bent, his face furrowed,
and his limbs aching with rheumatism
long before mid-life. No. no; work lees,
read more, eat slower, and think more;
beautify your house and your yard, love
your wife and children, and have home
that they will love. Have plenty Of veg
etables to eat-plant big orchard-then
all the berries you can get; raise plenty
of horses for your children to ride-don't
work mules that will make sinner out
Of = ChristiaD, but get mares to raise
| colts.
Neatness and tidin0s makes the farm
attractive and CHEEKY, 80 your children
take in good habits, and when they grow
up they won't run to the cities. Young
folks think good deal abont looks, 80
dress them as well a. their neighbors.
II you want your daughters to get good
husbands, keep q nice, cheerful house,
and learn your daughters to be neat.
Make farm-life cheerful, so your children
will always love the old home. l have
been good deal among the farmers
homes and find many Of them lacking
in comforts that make life happy. And
in none are they 50 deficient as in table
comforts. don't mean to say that there
is not enough of food, but il is poorly
cooked and poorly put on the table. II
the farmers wives and daughters would
study aud learn how to set table % ~
to look nice and inviting, it would make
home happier than it does when thrown
haphazzard ON dirty table-cl0th. Il is
not necessary, by any means, to have nne
tableware; 30 they are clean and put on
tastefully is al that Is needed. Not long
since had dinner with widow woman;
there was little ON the table, bat every
thing was 50 nicely arranged that II gave
all the party pleasure to dine.
Now, brother farmers, quit getting up
before day and sending your boys out to
work before 1t Is light. Don't wake your
wife at .. M, and expect her to work
till or at night. Treat your family -
well as good horseman does his horse.
Don't make your home . perfect he'll, and
then talk Of being . Christian, for you
amt. YOu are only . vile hypocrite.
Home IL something more than place to
eat and sleep, and should be made hAppy.
Doat work your wife and children into
aa early grave. TO sna Up nj, home b
rendered enjoyable by good health, gUod
deep, good llving. comfortable and At
tractise houses, pleasant hone relations,
and the genuine gentllity Of habits and
manners coming from caltured ninds ard
losiag arts.-Bvsev Lalavd, q Ashsn-
80 AstAodjse.
The Philadejphia Times says: ssThcre
was one really noticeable feature aboul
the conduct Of the men who went to New