The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-20
THE FARMERS WIFE.
A Touching and Just Tribute TO
This Greatly Neglected Being.

In his now famous Bothlehem ALL
ance speech, Larry CAN'T, of Athens,
pays the following tribute to the
farmers wife:-
"But l will not waste all of my SYM
pathy ON the farmer. There is one
class even more deserving of pity and
relief than you, my alliance friends.
/ refer to the farmer wife. There is
not a burden 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 sym
pathetic heart as a dagger. She bears
equally with you your every load
but | 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 work
ing in the field your wife was at
the house toiling just as hard as
yourself; and that while you had but
one task before you she has a host of
duties to perform, each pressing upon
her at once and the same time? When
you return to your MONDAY meal and
llIiQ a. W6ACOluluE SlIAtlO blo CNCtf
thing 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 ever
consider the vast amount of work that
these pleasant surroundings have cost
the poor wife?
SAT night, when taking your ease,
does it occur to you to look around
and see if your wife is having her
season of rest? You will find the
old couplet verified in her case, which
says
tsMan works from sun to sun,
But woman's work is never DONE"
1--WE men are to selfish and self con-
ceited-and | am no exception to the
rule. We imagine that because we
| are the bread winners of the family,
the women's works mere child's play.
n3"Never was there a graver error.
There is not a farmer beneath the
| sound of my voice but who, ii he were
to exchange places with his wife,
| would be begging her to run back in
/, less than twenty-four hours.
'sAt night when you are 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 a fretful child lest it
| disturb poor, tired papa The dear
unselfish creature! She never thinks
OF her own weary frame and achy
brow.
by the dawn of day that poor wife
is on her feet, preparing the best re-
past the larder will afford. You return
to your work in the field, while the
wife resumes the old treadmill exist
tence that is rarely broken by a ray
of pleasure.
You men can go to town and there
meet and mingle with your 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 wor-
expect her to look after or prepare a
dinner for your friends.
II do not believe there is a man liv-
ing who appreciates his wife as he
| should. He loves aud cherishes her;
but he should do even more than this.
We should resolve never to take a
pleasure but the wife equally enjoys
it with us. She bears her full part of
our tolls and trials, and it is only Just
right that she should also reap the
fruits of our prosperity.
1T should be the first duty of a
good alliance man, when he has lifted
the mortgage from his home, to look
to the comfort and pleasure of his
wife. Before you add another acre of
land to your possessions; before you
build q new barn; before you pur-
chase an implement to expedite your
work, or before you improve your
stock, look through your home-go
into your kitchen, the wash-room and
the dairy, and see if there is not solne
| utepsil or invention that you can buy
to lessen your poor wife's labor. Lift
a part of the burden from her shout
ders, that she has so long and uncom-
plainingly borne, and see that her
remaining days are made as happy
and as comfortably as your affairs
will warrant. "-AHG7atG Constitution.
ReautifuI Ecuador Women.
The females of Ecuador are proven
bal for beauty. those among the alis-
tocracy being said to have the fairest
complexions Of any in South America,
while all possess large, soft and ex-
pressive dark eyes, the blacklist and
mostabundant hair, the whitest teeth,
we'll rounded figures and small hands
and feet, Like all women in the
tropics, they mature early and fade
quickly, but perhaps their average
span OF forty years includes more
heart happiness than comes to women
of colder climes in three score years
and ten, for these are harrasssd by no
''carking cares or high ambitions.
Incidence, religious superstition.
and faithfulness unto death are their
most prominent characteristics; their
passionate natures are completely
satisfied in the love Of home, husband
and children, and for them the whole
universe lies within the limits of vi
sion. What higher praise could be
bestowed upon the women of any
country? 70 be sure, they are motor
iously untidy in dress and habits, but
the manta or ~paneulon, like the man
Hark the sound OK many voices
Jubilant In Rladast song.