Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-07-05
FARMERS. DAUGHTERS.
now They Can Mako Money W1tAou
Lsavlng the Old Homostond.

How They Can Mako Money W1saeua
Leaving the Old Homestead.
Rural pursuits offer manv 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 .
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 Shop, swal-
low up few. aud 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 monoio-
nous from year 10 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 Cf
everyday family intercourse.
Long ago the baking and the manu-
facture OF many necessaries were one
and all home duties; nowadays the
baker is man. who sells dyspeptic
buns and oleomargarine pastries to
his unhappy customers. and from his
profits keeps fast horses. In the place
of wholesome preserves 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 as years
pass on. This condition of life is due
in part to the wider ambition 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
wage earning population Of the world.
when once they were the honored
heads Of homelife. To go back to old
methods is impossible. still remnant
can be saved. and young girls can be
led to see. that preserving apples in
"mo,her's" kitchen is not harder
work than bottling pickles in . fac
tory; that dairy work on their fathers
farm IS not worse than standing twelve
hours a day in a store. to earn from
three to seven dollars week.
There is widespread want unsup.
piled for the luxuries of country life;
the two most sought for and most diff
ficult to obtain arc 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 rs good butter and cheese as
their grandmothers did. there would
he no need of protective milk associa-
tions; 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
pound. and the same month capons
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 clamorcd for
more.
Farming is said not to pay; farmers
arc always poor NV just let the
girls step in and see if they can not
make as good butter as tho great
creameries put on the market, and
when they do. fathers. see to it tina.
your daughters have their just share |
of your increased profit. 1t is 'rhe
ready penny" the actual possession |
of money, that we all desire, and this |
universal longing sends girls to the
mill. the factory. and tho store.
Farmers daughters who remain ..
home are fed and clothed but rarely |
paid for their service. This 10 what |
so frequently discourages them. Then
again many girls lack manual skill
and at home receive no training which
tends to diminish this evil They
know nothing. therefore they '.ga
out" The woman who would mos,
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 10 gain a comfort.
able living in the area of country pur-
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