The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1891-07-24
Bassanio says


I'm my school days when had lost one shaft.
l shot his fellow of the selt-same flight
The selfsame way, with more advised watch,
To find the other forthi and by adventuring both,
oft found both"
The poisoned arrows of sensational liter
allure, let fall by an idle summer visitor, per-
chance may miss the mark, and be SOW good
seed from the city g treasure house.
If he comes to the average wide awake
farmer. he puts keener edge to the latter's
abilities, emphasizes and makes more real his
knowledge of the outside world gained from
the country's point of view, whets his appe-
lite for culture and polish. tells him the latest
device in war, politics and trade, is an object
lesson in fact as to what the farmer gains
and what he loses in his sylvan home.
And as to the ladies-that inestimable
boon, the very latest styles
How they poise with delight over the up
turned lid of that blessed Saratoga, which
made the men folks groan in the flesh and do
worse in the spirit.
From its rtcesses come untold Inspirations
to Molly and Jenny.
That love of bonnet, the cut and hang of
your gown !; the make ofyour boot-from the
twist of your hair to the turn Of your toe, not
at item is lost, my dear madame.
A few Sundays thereafter Molly blossoms
forth in some creditable limitations that make
John wonder what on earth his sweetheart
has been doing to herself.
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One fundamental axiom in all good farm
ing is not to overburden the land, not to
take more off than can be put back, and to
Keep up wise rotation Of crops. If you
take off wheat this summer, you put in corn
Lext spring, and then you let the land lie fall
low for while, or set it in a luxuriant
growth of beautiful grass and as for fertili-
zers they must be bought at the risk of debt,
bankruptcy, what not.
Did it ever occur to you, my good man,
you might take this theory indoors and ap-
ply it with profit to wife and daughter and
selfs
Your body is the most delicate and compli-
Gated organism that ever left the Creator 3
hands. All the constituents of sky and earth
and water 60 towards your make.u r; the ami
NAL, vegetable and mineral kingdoms con-
tribute to your well being, The motor for all
this is the mysterious thing we Call life the
with wasteful energy
Do you ever set about planting good sup
ply of bone and sinew for the time of illness
that will surely come Do you ever harvest q
storehouse of vitality for the rush of next
seasons extra work? Would it not be wise 10
body now and thenP
The farmer who prides himself upon his
smiling, well-kept acres, his sleek and PAM
pered stock, dots not know we laugh in our
sleeve that he is more kind 10 all Than 10 his
own poor body.
The housewife who is the neatest, most
forehanded of her sex, whose house is immac.
u.ate, who is perfection In every such detail
DIES not feel ashamed to show herself In pub
lie mere attenuattd atom of the little End oil
nothing. She has cooked and swept and
scrubbed all away but the merest shell of hu.
mrnity.
The life of the farmers wife has become
the synonym of all that is grinding, narrow
and wearing. Statistics show she fills our
insane asylums to an alarming extent. City
people tell US it is all very well to talk about
the poetry of country life, they know what II
means ETC., etc.
We might remark, just here, that il tits true
It's only because women are such unmitigatet
geese; we all know alas that when woman
says II WILL" be it suffrage or sewing ma
chine, prohibition, a trip to Europe or a set
ting hen, WE'LL
Bless your heart she likes posing as {
martyr, she would rather John see cross
face and aggressive bones than not. She takei
malicious comfort iu being just as woe-be
gone as possible.
Under other conditions this upwholesom,
state of mind may vanish
So just try the policy OF making your wifi,
the best fed, best groomed creature On tn,
place. Pick her out of that slough In which
she thinks all things must be done Just so
just now, just right.
Give her and yourself stiff, inVigoratinl
breeze in the way of run to the city for
week. Your horse may not get the exac
number ofgrains of corn that he has had TO
the last twenty years; it is altogether certain
the cream will be scum from left to right, tina
the sticks of wood will not be laid jus
straight. nor the turkeys be sung to sleep
but when you come home you will find th
same old world, aud at the end Of she yea
more happiness with as many dollars an
cents