Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-05-10

ers 10 the importance of letting their
wives enjoy with them neighborhood so.
ciability and visits during the compara.
tive leisure of winter There are other
matters which could be improved in
making all families happier and life more
desirable on the farm. And as a test
from which to preach this exaortation we
will take paragraph from that inimitable
caricature of nature, Josiah Aliens wife,
&c follows
Il will have good victuals as long as my
name Is Josiah Aliens wife, and it hain't
only on my own account that do 1t. but
DO H. as | have observed before, from
deep and almost cast-iron principle. For,
as the greatest philosophers have discOv-
cred, II woman would keep her table
spread out from year to year, and frol
hour to hour filed with good yictuals, that
woman would have clever set of men
folks around
This department of the Register has re.
peatedly said that the farmer has oppor-
tuuities for better living than any other
class of citizens; aud a large number of
them do set their tables with sweeter and
fresher meats, fruits and vegetables than
those of other departments of life have
any opportunity Of doing. but then a
large number OF housewives on the farm
have not the spirit and determination of
Josiah Aliens wife. And too many of the
men are as stupid and more perverse than
Josiah himself. Ii the woman is thor
Oughly determined, there is mild and
winning way in which the objects of that
determination" can be obtained. Too
many OF the men are good, easy souls,
who have never lived up TO their privileg-
es in furnishing their hous aud their
tables And men are seldom, if ever, bet
ter than their wives want to be. If wife
sees and knows that her table is not sup
piled with fruits in their season, and fresh
meats when they are appropriate, as well
as all the delicious vegetables which a
good garden can supply, there are kind
ways and laudibe incentives which a good
wife can use to have an improvement in
these matters. After Partaking of saw
DRY dinner, the heart Of man can be
touched and led on to good resolutions,
which poorly prepared meals eaten in
silence and suljen brows, can never effect
II is true when hard work and pinchng
economy and tired nature take posses
sion of every nerve and fiber of the sys
TEN, H. is hard TO Keep sunshine on the
face and a dow OF happy words from the
heart. The writer knows what work and
care are or the farm. There is no poetry
in it frequently. But when they know
that their life and destiny are to be hard
work and rlOse economy they should ac-
cept it with contentment, the man and
wife going together 10 ali things hand IN
hand accepting the good things of life,
and wing with each other TO add as
many more blessings as possible.
But the tolls and privations of farm
lire can be greatly alleviated by fully
waking up to the possibilities of the
farm-by mproving, by little cost and
more attention, the comforts and drlica-
cles of the adornment OF the house and
its surroundings and the conveniences for
more sociabilily. And much Of this can
5e inspired and carried forward by
the wife in love and harmony with her
husband.
Several years previous 10 the rebellion
the writer was travelling IN Middle Ten
nessee with citizen of that State who
was well acquainted with the inhabitants
of the neighborhood through which VT
were travelling. There had been cOnsid
cradle talk between Us relative 20 the want
of thrift and outhouses-all implanted
fences either dilapated or built IN CHEAP
and forbiddIng style. At last we came tC
a farm entirely different. The house was
painted artisticaily OF the appropriate
shades and colors, the fences, lawns and
drives in the peatest aud most systematic
style. Fruit trees and flowers adorned the
premises, and everything looked sweet and
lovely. "What does this mean?' we asked
'0h!' said our companion, "the old gen
tleman who lives here lost his wife somt
years ago. and he married for second
wife a Yankee school marin whom the
neighboring town had hired TO teach the
seminary, aud she has led the old man in
to all of these fantastics. By the way, he
remarked that it would be good place tC
get our dinners. And happily we found
it so. We had been travelling through the
country for some days, depending or
farm houses for food and lodgings. Anc
after living for week on corn bread and
fat rusty bacon, we reioiced egain in q
well prepared and diversified meal Anc
we wished Middle Tennessee we're full OF
Yankee school marms, At least until We go
out of il.
ana uNlS Is an Iliu0tI d'lph VI Hhal w
are trying TO enforce in this article. Tht
farmers wives, if they will only exer
their influence aud cultivate their own tai
ent in preparation of food and ornament
ing the premises, can make the farm
house the most desirable place on earth.
! i am weary Of living" moaned poor Mrs Black
For I'm fairly worn out with the ache i'm my
back,
! Ny nerves are a chain