The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-09-13
City md Country Lif Ccontrasted.

One can scarcely spend a month or two
In the country without contrasting country
and city life. There is universal lde"
that country life is one OF perfect ease
and ol!iet So il is, for one who only goes
to the country to visit, but it Is very ulL-
ferent to those whose lives are spent IN
country homes. | propose to snow poln
rides advantages and disadvantages, and
we will see how near they balance. VI
course. | am only writing Of the ives OF
women; there is no doubt they are the sur
ferers. rs they usually are i'll most OF the
irving circumstances OF life. lou VIII
often notice III passing the little NiIaSeS'
where there may be only one or two stores
and a postofiice, there viii be dozen men
or more sitting on benches or Tilted PACK
In split-bottom chairs, perfectly ut ease
whiting sticks or chewing tobacco. Go
from there to the home oil any one OF those
men. and YOU would never lind woman
sitting idle; she is kept busy from the
time she rises. which is usually daybrcak,
until she LAYS her weary body down at
night.
The hospitality &c the country "a con
trastod with the city is far more full 9nd
cordial. r ,t,r. is II ycs3Gn.l. aadtco25G H..
in tie country you never see IN Il city.
You feel YOU are welcome; the big poi
and the little pot both 20 on, and you
NAV be sure they are full. Iii city you
are invited out, but there is 50 much style,
flowers and silver that you are more M
pressed with the grandeur that surrounds
you than you enjoy the yioEds.
In the country you commence with ma
lure and natures God One could sit
for hours and take pleasure in the view that
meets the eye-tic,ds under cultivation ard
pastures full of gentle Jerseys, ANA 50 many
scenes that charm and rest both bOIT and
mind.
In the city the rush and incessaat Wlirl
goes on from day to day, and you are UNI
consciously drawn within the stream, you
are tired from seeing others tired, you rush
and hurry because others Go, there is a con-
slant feeling Of getting left il you don
do so and So, and yet there IS 4 great charm
about such II life l. said TO a lady in the
country tAis summer, on, | do enjoy. this
quiet life you lead" and her reply was,
Yes. YOU think il very pleasant ana enjoy
our quiet country life. but we like to leave it
all and enjoy Tie noise and hustle of Il city
Just as we'll" And So / began to think
about it all and / fouHd the advantages and
disadvantages very nearly equal.
4 woman in the country, it Is true, has
g. thousand cares. If it is not one thing 10
see 10 j, is Huother-tbe COWS TO milk, the
churniug. Chickens p.gs-see il she Keeps
servants, that these things are done, Tor
good servants are unknown, AMI most women
who have them spend half their time ia
their Kitchens. Then The canning and pre-
serying-what Il labor, over the hot stove
DAY alter day: many u woman with one or
two little children Mt her HEELS thea the
meals 10 be ready when the men come in;
then pots and dishes to wash, s1d so on, all
day long, and chen the little ones 10 sew for
between tines-it seems sad way to spend
q life. Women who have longin9s for Il
higher life, ambition for knowledge and
desires for some of iife's Joys AID Pleasures,
and yet nothing but drudge
Surely women were made for better
thingsi
But do they envy their more fortunate
city sisters? As we are dealing with eX-
tremes. we viii only take the life of a Wo-
man who lives for society and l fear there
are a great many. She has 10 drudgery
In her life, a bed of down to rest upon,
luxury surrounding her, the best of ser
wants at her beck and call and yet her
life is wcariSOme in the extreme. In the
constant effort To keep up appearances, the
great fear that some one III her set will
do or have something she has not, the never
ceasing anxiety to have the latest style
In dress and the effort To have it different
from all others, the great desire 10 have
her luncheon or dinner excel the last one
she attended, the hope that her decorations
will impress her guest and the effort to
have yiands none have had before, there
is Il constant strain on such n woman that
makes life burden. and with all this 4
life of perfect Inactivity, With no real aim
or object iii life that will elevate or rest
the mind DO you think such a life desra-
bleI Look on one and look on the other
and l leave it with you to decide which
life would you choose?
There are again Il large class of women
who come between the two pictures / have
drawn, but they, too, have their cares and
sorrows. There is no life that is not 1uil
Of lueul aud rnc:e is no WOMAN who mas
not ut some time III her life echoed the SEN
Gment expressed il the beautiful poem
Il hope you Will all read it, that heads our
column today no woman who has not 1elt
So tired of rigid duty
So tired of all my tired hands find to do!
/ yearn, | faint for some OF life's free beauty
Its loose beads-With straight string run
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