The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-01-22
TIE rAKMrR,s WIFE.

The rAKMhR's WIFE.
The farmers wife is the corner stone
of the Nations prosperity. No person
VIII reads this statement will be half as
much surprised as the farmers wife her.
self would be, says woman writer in the
New York Recorder.
A pillow horse is the most patient of all
Gods creature. He is not aspiring. In
his own estimation he is not to be spoken
OF in the same breath with the red and
yellow illuminated clod crusher that fol
lows after him, nor with the machine
that marks tie field into fascinating
diagram of parallel lines. But the work
would be impossible without the pillow
horse. The plow horse dosen't know it..
He plows straight ahead in narrow rut.
That's the way it is with the farmers
wife.
Now and then the world hears of her.
Statistics reveal the fact that from the
ranks of the farm women comes the
largest class of inmates of insane asy-
lums.
Last years harvest statistics assert
that for foreign trade alone 100000, 900
bushels of wheat were produced. The
farmer is well named the foundation
rock of the Natiod's prosperity. But
the foundation rock of each individual
farmers prosperity is the wife who
stands at the domestic helm.
Ergo, the farmers wife is the corner
stone of the Nation.
There is nothing very exciting about
being a corner stone.
There are but few triumphs that come
the way of the farmers wife. To be
sure, she institutes races with the lark.
The lark long ago surrendered to her the
palm. Old Sol himself waits fof her to
rise before he peaks up his golden head
above the eastern horizon. She is one
of the few persons in the world who
know and appreciate his matutinal
gluries. He loves her for her energy. In
the summer time he pour his wealth of
sunlight in at her kitchen door to bleach,
and approves of her garden and helps her
in thousand ways.
Steady and reliable as lie is, he is not
as ambitious and energetic as the farm
woman. She has no time to lie in bed.
Everyone of the domestic wheels is wait
ing to be set in motion and she is the
motor.
Another one of her diversions is the
county fair and still another is summer
company. The former swells her heart
with modest triumph as she sees the
blue ribbon tied to her rolls of yellow
butter. The latter may afford her greater
or less compensation. Sometimes it
means board money wherewith to pur-
chase a new carpet for the best room,
and sometimes it means Christmas cards
and toboggan caps at holiday time.
Occasionally she goes to town to do
some trading. This is an important
event and must be arranged for and
planned week ahead. The time spent
in going to town to trade is considered,
by the masculine element, lost time, and
it must be made up by extra effor.
Everybody hurries, They hurry to bed
the previous night in order to hurry to
rise SO as to hurry with the usual duties
OF the day, that they may hurry to start
on their journey. Farm horses on every
prosperous farm are more highly
e,teemed than women. The horses hurry
less than tue women. At the village the
shopping must be done in a hurry in
order to hurry home again. The pathetic
part of it all is that they are not con-
scious of the hurry. Then the horses
have time to walk home.
These winter days arc the farm wO-
mans days of leisure. The cows are not
giving much milk, and the hens are not
actively engaged in laying; there are no
young things in the farm yard, the
| thrashers are not expected, and there
are no potato bugs to pick or preserves
to make. She now has time to sew car
pet rags and make overalls and do the
| years sewing. The washings are not as
| heavy as they were IN the summer, and
barring pig-killing time, when she makes
| lard and saugage and head cheese and
picked pigs feet, there is little for her
| to do.
But she is ambitious and pure country
air promoted her physical endurance.
| BY ard by her poor Overtaxed nerves cry
! out against everything. The smoke
rises from the chimneys of the insane's
! asylum in the distance and she draws
daily nearer to its portals.
This is to express my sincere thanks
for the benefits have experienced from
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