The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-11
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EditorGantt Makos n Talk Which Touches
.'-AH Popular Chord.
In his now famous Bethlehem AL
lance speech, Larry CAN'T, of Ath-
ems, Ga, pays the following tribute
to farmers wife:
"But 1 will not waste all my sym
pathies on the farmer. There is one
class even more deserving of pity
and relief than you, my Alliance
| friends refer TO the farmers wife.
There is not q burden thatyo bear
t,ut the little woman, who is the light
Ina Inaa your home, shares it with you.
Your trials and cares pierce the ten
der sympathetic heart as a dagger.
She bears equally with you every
load; but say with pain and regret,
that she is, alas! too often deprived
of q share of your pleasures. Did
you horny handed lords of creation
ever consider that while you are
working in the field, your wife was
at the house toiling Just rs hard as
yourself; and that while you had but
one task before you she has host of
duties to perform, each pressing
upon her at one and the same time?
When you return to your MONDAY
meal, and find q welcohding smile
and everything ready Fsto hand-as if
the confusion of the morning had been
touched by q fairy's wand and order
produced from cbRos-do you. ever
consider the vast amount. OF work
that these pleasant surroundings have
cost the poor wifef At night, when
taking your ease, does it occur to
you to look around and see If you
will find the old couplet verified in
her case, which says:
Man works from sun TO sun,
But woman's work is ne> er done.
ave men are all too self -conceited
and am no exception to the rule.
We imagine that because we are the
breadwinners of the family the wo-
mans work is mere child's play.
"Never was there graver error.
There is not farmer beneath the
sound of my voice, but who if he
were made to exchange places with
his wife, would be begging her to
rue back in twenty-four hours.
"At night, when you are looked in
the arms of Morpheus, and your weary
frames drinking in the rest that na,
ture demands, the wife at your side
is trying to quiet fretful child lest
it disturb sspoor tired papa" The
dear unselfsh creature! She never
thinks of her own weary frame and
aching brow.
"By the dawn of day that poor
wife is on her feet preparing the best
repast the larder will afford You
return to your work in tae field,
while the wife resumes IT,, old tread
mill existence, that is <irely broken
by ray of pleasure.
"You men can 90 to town, and
there meet and Jingle with friends
and discuss tn. news of the day.
How many imes during the year
does the n>or wife cross the thres-
hold of lsf home, except to attend
divine Worship on Sunday? And
eyep hen you expect her to look
afor or prepare dinner for your
riends.
81 do not believe there is a man
living who appreciates his wife as he
should, He loves and cherishes her
sa ss shSSf S ahs sss4Es asEss ss ssks
It with us ehet kfs her full pa1 {
of our tolls and t1kls, and it is only
just and right that she should reap
the fruits of our prosperity.
"1t should be the first duty of a
good Alliance man, when he has lif =
ted the mortgage fom his home, to
look to the comfort and pleasure of
his wife. Before you add another
acre of land to you. possession; be-
fore you build a new barn; before
you purchase an implement to ex-
pedite your work, or before you. i'm
prove your stock, look through your
home-go into the kitchen, the wash
room and the dairy, and see if there
is not some uteisil OF invention that
you can buy p lessen your poor
wife's labor. LIT a part of the bur
den from her shoulders, that she has
80 long and unc3mplainingly borne,
and see that her remaining days are
made as happy AID as comfortable
as your affairs viii warrant.
There'ssthdDinner Bell.
What clatteri} }g and chattering
as the children lnswer the dinner
bell and rush intd the dining room.
Oh the gratifcat lon a good APPETITE
affords as our nooh days meal is set
before us. But this vacant chair,
what does it meaI! "Oh, that is
Uncle Charlev's snat 1uess hadon,t