Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-11-21
On the farmers Wife.

brother farmers, some containing
matters of interest to the craft. Now
we have few words to say of far
mers' wives. The kindly good mis-
tress of the household of every far
mer, God bless them, they are the
sources of all comfort in this world.
and will certainly occupy very
prominent place in the good part of
the picture in the world to come.
From the Good Book we learn
that mother Eve was the first agri-
cultnrist's wife, and VIC read that
this same Eve was created as a help
meet to Adam, which is apparently
a mistake in the text, and should, as
it turned out to be, for "cook and
general maid of all work for Adam"
BY the same account we set Adam
down, savage, rs he was, as a sneak
of husband, mean enough to at
tempt to cast the burden of his sins
on Eve, and tho lazy scamp doubt
less rcclined III the shade allowing
Eve to pluck and prepare the lucious
fruits on which he lived and fat
tened, and if the weather was warm
and from the very first day of her
Creation she was doubtless compelled
to trot for cool water for her law
lord and master every few moments
of the day.
The fig leaf covering is doubtless
a"o.he" error of the text, if at all
incredulous apply fig leaf to your
own nakcdncss. Eve doubtless
made her first apron covering from
leaves both broader and smoother
than the fig leaves and from this
same dress she learned her first lcs~
son in cutting and fitting, sewing
and making upon which her chill
dren have much improved in ages,
until now they arc adopts in spin-
ming, weaving. cutting, fitting and
making, quilting, patching and darn
ing.
Perhaps Adam treated his wife
well. Perhaps he treated her like
our friend Willie said his ncighbor
Handy did his wife. Why, says
Willie, you never saw such kind
man to his wife as Handy is. Will
you believe it, he lets that woman
draw all the water, cut the wood,
dig the potatoes, hoe the garden and
corn patch, milk the COW, feed the
pigs, and work at whatever she
pleascs. lie never interferes with
her or makes her stop, while he sits
quietly in the shade and smokes his
pipe. And unfortunately it often 80
happens with a farmers wife. She
is allowed to do all the work she can,
and often expected to do more. A
mans work is from sun to sun, Il
waman's work never ends. Up at
dawn she cooks, she sweeps, she
digs, she sews, she dusts, she scrubs,
she churns, nurses the baby, cares
for the larger children--if pcrchance
she has a moment to take scat her
lap is filled by some heavy cub of 4
child, while she plies her busy fin
gers knitting "to save time" And
late at night and last, as her lord
and master rests from his toll and
snorcs aloud she ovcr-hauls the rents
and mcnds and repairs for the wear
and tear of another day, and then to
bed, no not to rest, as ut every rest.
less baby's turn: the mothers care
comes to soothe it and try to put to
rest the slccpless child.
Such is the good woman, the far
mcr's wife. From her all blessings
flow. She is the mother of nations,
of great men, of soldiers, sailors, and
of us all-dccidcdly the best of all
Gods creation. She is never treat
Cd with tho respect and considora-
ton which is her due. The fact is,
in which is generally called society,
she is ignored and not acknowledged
is classcd as only a farmers wife.
Scott's beautiful picture of Dandic
Dimonts good wife, Allie, was drawn
from real life. We ourselves have
seen this same Alic ruling a farmers
household more than once. u
thrifty farmer always has good
wife, and always treats her with
kindly care and consideration. Alic,
thrifty wife, when married to a
man not innatcly worthless, always
makes him a thrifty farmer. The
successful management of n farm is
in more cases duo to the farmers
wife than to the farmer himself.
A FARMER.
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