Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-06-19
The Farmey,s wife.

lii his, now famous, Bethlehem
Alliance speech, Larry CAN'T, of
Athens, Ga, pays the following tri.
butte to a farmers wife: (
"But | will not waste all my sym
pathy OH tho farmer. There is ono
class even moro deserving of pity
and relief than you, my Alliance
friends. / refer tc tho farmers
wife. There is not burden that
you bear but the little woman, who
is the light of your home, shares it
with YOU. Your trials and cares
pierce the tender sympathetic heart
as dagger. She bears equally with
you your every load; but / say with
pain and regret, that she is, alas !
too often deprived of share of
your pleasures. Did you horny
handed lords of creation ever con-
slider that while you arc working in
the field, your wife was at the house
toiling just as hard as yourself, and
that while you had but ono task
before you, she has a host of duties
TO perform, each pressing upon her
at once and the same timcp 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 a fairy's wand and
order produced from chaos-do you
over consider tho vast amount of
work that these pleasant surround
ings 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 having her sea
son of rest? You will find the old
couplct verified in her case, which
says:
Man works from sun to sun,
But woman's work is never done.
eve men are all too selfish and
sclf-conccitcd-and | am no excep-
ton to the rule. We imagine that
because we arc the bread winners of
the family, the woman's work is mere
childs play.
"Ncvcr was there a gravcr 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 less than twcnty-four
hours.
At night, when you arc locked in
the arms of Morpheus, and your
weary frames drinking in the rest
that nature demands, the wife at
your side is trying to quiet fretful
child lest it disturb "poor tired papa"
The dear selfish 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 rcpast the larder will afford.
You return to your work in the field,
while the wife resumes the old tread
mill existence, that is rarely broken
by a ray of pleasure.
"lou men can go to town, and
there meet and minglc with friends
and discuss the news of the day.
How many times during the year
does the poor wife cross the threshold
OF her home, except to attend divine
worship on Sunday? And even
then you expect her to look after or
prepare Il dinner for your friends.
"l do not believe there is a man
living who appreciates his wife as he
should. lie loves and chcrishcs her;
but he should do even more than
this: We should resolve never to
take pleasure but the wife equally
enjoys it with us. She bears her full
part OF our tolls and trials, and it is
only just and right that she should
also reap the fruits of our prosperity.
at should be the first duty of a
good Alliancc-man, when he has
lifted the mortgage from his home,
to look for the comfort and pleasure
of his wife. Before you add another
acre of land to your possession; be-
fore you build new barn; before
you purchase IN implement to cxpc-
ditc your work, or before you i'm
prove your stock, look through your
homc-go into the kitchen, the wash
room and the dairy, and see if there
is not some utcnsil or invention that
you can buy to lessen your wife's
labor. Lift part of the burden
from her shoulders, that she has so
long and nncomplainingly borne, and
see :hat her remaining day are made
rs happy and rs comfortable as your
affairs will warrant"