Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-05-22
THE FARMERS WIFE.
n Touching and just Tribute
to This Greatly Neglect
ed Being.

In his, now famous, Bethlehem
alliance speech, Larry CAN'T of
Athens pays the following tribute
to the farmers wife:
sBut l will not waste all of nv
sympathy on the farmer. There
is one class even more deserving of
pity and relief than you, my alli-
ance friends. / refer to the
farmers wife There is not a
burthen that you bear but the little
woman, who is the light of your
home, shares it with you. Your
trials and cares pierce her tender
and sympathetic heart as a dagger.
She bears equally with you your
every load; but, 1 say with pain
and regret, that she is, alas! too
often deprived of a share of your
pleasures. Did ye horny-handed
lords of creation ever consider that
while you are working in the field
your wife was at the house tolling
just as hard as yourself; and that
while you had but one task before
you she has host of duties to per-
form, each pressing upon her at
once and the same time2 When
you return to your MONDAY meal
and find welcoming smile and
everything ready to your hand-as
If the confusion of the morning had
been touched by fairy's wand and
order produced from chaos-do
you ever consider the vast amount
of work that these pleasant sur
roundings have cost the poor wife?
''At night, when taking your
ease, does it occur to you to look
around and see if your wife is hav-
ing her season of rest? You will
find the old couplet verified in her
case, which says:
Man works from sun to sun,
| But woman's work is never done.'
"We men are all too selfish and
self-concelted-and I am no excep-
ton to the rule. We imagine that
because we are the bread winners
of the family, the women's work is
mere child's play.
"Never was there graver error.
There Is not a 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 less than twenty-four
hours.
"At night, when you are locked
in the arms of Morpheus, and your
weary frames drinking in the rest
that nature demands, the wife at
syour side is trying to quiet fretful
child lest it disturb poor tired
papa The dear, unselfsh Great.
ure 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 the
field, while your wife resumes the
old treadmill existence that is
rarely broken by ray of pleasure
"You men can 60 to town and
there meet and mingle with friends
and discuss the news of the day
How many times during the yeal
does the poor wife cross the
threshold of her home, except to at
tend divine worship on Sunday:
And even taen you expect her tt
look after or prepare a dinner fol
| friends.
81 do not believe there is a mar
living who appreciates his wife al
he should. He loves and cherisheI
her; but he should do even more
than this. We should resolve nevel
to take a pleasure but the wifi
, equally enjoys it with US. Sh'
F bears her full part of our tolls ane
trials and it is only just and righ
, that she should also reap the fruit
of our prosperity.
cit should be the first duty of ,
, good alliance man, when he ha
, lifted the mortgage from his home
, to look to the comfort and pleasure
of his wife. Before you add anoth
er acre Of land to your possessions
before you build a new barn; befor'
you purchase an implement to ex
pedite your work, or before yol
l improve your stock, look througl
/ your home-go into the kitchen
the wash room and the dairy, ant
= see if there is not some utensil o
| invention that you can buy t.
! lessen your poor wife's labor
/ Lift part of the burden from he
a shoulders, that she has so long am
! uneomplainingly borne, and Sc
that her remaining days are mad
e as happy and as comfortable a
: your affairs will warrant"
A Decline in Horse Flesh.
Deacon Slick-ssSee that ar hoss
i'Taint morn a week since a cit