Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-06-14
FARMERS. DAUGHTERS.
How They Can Make Money Without
Leaving tho Old Homestead.

How They Can Make Money WiGn009
Leaving the Old Homestead.
Rural pursuits offer m any attractions
which promise more profit than can
be found in or drawn from many of
The occupations which are regarded
essentially feminine. while the farm
house presents to willing hands a
varied round of duties. the garden.
the orchard, the dairy and the poultry
yard seem 10 us fields of remunerative
enterprise awaiting those who enter
them. Young girls just emancipated
from school weary of what they re-
gard as the dizziness of country life,
and according to their tastes and at
tainments seek occupation in Office or
gravitate to factory life. Shops swal-
low up few, and city and village
stores engulf thousands and tens OF
thousands. The wages of sewing
girls are proverbially small; the hours
in store are long, and though the work
is termed light it is dull and mono.o-
nous from year to year. Many are the
hardships of working girls. yet all of
these are braved. cheerfully at first
by countless generations OF young
women who prefer an aimless life of
unrestricted freedom to the fulfillment
of home duties and the trammels #
everyday family intercourse.
Long ago the baking and the manu-
facture of many necessaries were one
and all home duties; nowadays tho
baker is a man, who sells dyspeptic
buns and oleomargarine pastries 10
his unhappy customers, and from his
profits keeps fast horses. In the place
of wholes ONE pres serves the tables Of
the multitude are served with canned
fruits. put up in the cheapest manner
in factories. Women of to-day have
to contend for existence under the
pressure of severely restricted area
of usefulness, the confines of which
grow narrower and narrower rs years
pass on. This condition of life is due
in part to the wider am bition and SUI
perior capacity of men, who little by
little have taken to themselves the fill
ing of the places formerly occupied by
women, not themselves as workers,
but as employers; and as women work
cheaper than men, these unwise ones
are to-day in the ranks of the great
wa e earning population of the world.
when once they were the honored
he ads of home-life. To go back TO old
methods is impossible, still a remn ant
can be saved. and young girls can be
led to see that preserving apples in
"mother's kitchen is not harder
work than bottling pickles in fac
4 f,,fI "a
farm Is not worse than standing twelve
hours a day in a store. to earn from
three to seven dollars q week.
There is widespread want unsup-
piled for the Injuries of country life;
the two most sought for and most diff
ficult to obtain are the products of the
dairy and the poultry-yard. Farmers
are said to be grasping; we think
otherwise. as they. for lack of ambi-
ton, sell their milk to dealers and
creameries If the farmers daugh-
tiers made as good butter and cheese as
their grandmothers did, there would
be no need of prote ctive milk assoeia-
tons; if farmers daughters used in
cubators and raised and fattened poul-
try. the present dearth of plump
chickens and fat capons would cease.
Last March broiling chickens sold
wholesale at thirty-eight cents per
reached twenty -eignt cents per pound.
These are remunerative prices, and
better rates could be obtained by serv-
ing first-class hotels and restaurants.
Dairy butter sold down to eighteen
cents per pound last March. when more
than one owner of dairy cows, through
superior skill as aproducer. and great
er enterprise as merchant. received
! one dollar per pound for butter, and
his eager customers clamored for
more.
Farming is said not to pays farmers
are always poor NV just let the
| girls step in and see if they can not
make as good butter as the great
| creameries put on the market. and
when they do. fathers. see to it that
your daughters have their just share
of your increased profit. 1t is 1.-THE
ready penny" the actual possession
of money, that we all desire. and this
universal longing sends girls to the
mill, the factory. and the store.
Farmers daughters who remain at
home are fed and clothed but rarely
paid for their service. This is what
so frequently discour ages them. Then
again many girls lack manual skill.
and at home receive notraining which
tends to diminish this evil. They
know nothing, therefore they go
out" The woman who would most
| benefit her sex would be the one who.
having the means at her command,
will place within the reach OF farm
ers' daughters an education which
would enable them to gain comfort
able living in the area of country pur-
suits. She would be a benefactress
IN two ways, as she would thin the
ranks of wage earners and open new
fields of industry to worthily ambl-
tious women.-An,erican Agrtcu.t-
ariSE
Father Weller Contradicted.
IIhad son of an age to marry l