The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-24
FARMING FOR WOMEN.
4 Woman's own Views on the SUBJ
ject-Begin With Little.

Mrs. CLAY. of Kentucky, is an earn
est advocate of farming enterprise ior
self supporting women who ave also
a family OF children to support she
says:-
For on the farm she will not have 10
leave her children in order to make
her support, but can give them her
personal attention. There are neiSn-
borhood public schools to when they
can be sent. Each child can wy an
interest in the farm, and a part IN
making it productive. The pigs, ealyes,
! etc. the bows can care for; the fowls
can be cared for by the girls. and
both IAN help in the garden and yard
| and Keen the flowers in order. BY a
fruit and vegetable garden, with bees
and fowls. a woman can support ner
children comfortably, and get their
clothing and groceries in exchange,
have a healthy employment, pure
fresh air to breathe, keep her NIL
drep free from the polluting influ-
ences of the street. and have no rent
oatherer call on her when her purse
Is low.
The expenses for clothing and fue
are less. and it is not necessary TO have
go much cash on hand. She can keep
a COW for milk and butter, a horse AND
spring wagon to carry her fruit ana
vegetables to market, and the family
to church II too far out to walk. The
slops and waste from garden and
kitchen will fatten hogs enough for
meat and lard. There is nothing
about farming that a woman may not
learn to do, and it seems to me a thou
| sand times preferable to living in a
tenement house, ina foul. close street,
on a scant income, with stale meat
and vegetables to eat. Few persons
in calculating the profits OF a farm
take into account the living that a
| GOOD farmer can have, and at SO
small a cost.
would advise no one to buy a farm
before she is able to pay for it, or at
least half of it. Better buy less, and
as YOU have the means add to 1T. l
would rather have fewer acres ofgood,
productive land, well situated, than
twice the number OF acres OF poor land.
lit takes just so much labor to till an
acre. and good land well titled pro-
duces twice as much as poor land well
titled. II a woman is able to live com
fortably and give her children a good
education in the common schools and
keep her home, she has done well.
Few persons do more than that.
Are the Boys Hardly Used?
1t is my believe that, as a rule, boys
are abused and it is small wonder
that so many of them grow up to be
so thoughtless and useless. l want
to make all due allowance for the
nervous. overworked mothers for l
have been one myself who cannot
long endure the noisy CHATTER of little
boots or the restless romping of
those boys" But oh, how often a
little planning and loving forethought
would save our NERVES" and also
boys.
Give the boys a room of their own,
where they may be allowed to work,
play, read or whatever the boyish
fancy may dictate. If he be fond of
reading, let him have plenty of good,
suitable books and papers and an
easy chair in which to sit in while he
reads them.
A boy loves comfort as well as a girl
does, and money spent in making him
comfortable at home goes a long way
toward keeping him off the street.
| Some DOyS can moi De bdtlSucu TO
spend a whole evening in reading;
these must be provided for in some
other way. Let them have games
there are many innocent ones-and let
them invite their friends into the
house, and feel that they have a share
in the home. | used to let my boys
pop corn, make taffy candy, white
and u a ~scroll-saw IN the evening in
spite of the litter it made, and | never
regretted it.
If the boy wants to make money,
that is, speculate in a small way, and
can do it without interfering with his
school duties, let him do so. 1t will
teach him to be industrious and will
cultivate business habits. / knew a
mother who went into partnership
with her boys, she furnishing the cap
ital and the boys doing the work. In
this way she taught them to keep ac-
counts, and if the money made did
not amount to much. the lesson 5
learned were invaluable.
Boys like to be trusted, it makes
them manly. II a boy deserves praise
give it to him freely. / know there
are boys and boys, but l have never
vet found one who was not suscept-
ible TO kindness, and who could not
be managed if the right course was
pursued.-LddieS' Home Journal.