The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-07-15
Burton Farm ers' clab.

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farm OF G. X. WOodin. 1t was here the
Burton Farmers Club met June 30th.
Miss Guilford reau paper on the ques-
ton SHOULD farmers wives and daughters
follow the fashions i'm dress and home
decoration" from which few extracts are
given. Regarding home decoration, she
said TO make the home comfortable, con-
venient, pleasant and attractive, should be
the pleasure as well as the duty of every
member of the household; not only of the
wives and daughters, but of the husbands
and sons, and IL there are new ideas and
new methods of accomplishing these OBJ
jects, no families, even farmers, should
hesitate for a moment to avail themselves of
them, so far as lies within their means.
Hang pictures Oh the walls, put up brackets
for bric-a-brac, build coy corners with
cOuches and cushions; with stands for books
and papers, and writing material, and lamps
for evening; have rugs, easy chairs and foot
rests, and make everything as inviting and
restful and dainty as possible. Meyer in
those well kept orderly, home-like homes,
where every member of the family lends a
hand in maintaining order and i'm beautify-
ing and decorating them, do we hear ''clean
your feet" when the boys come In. There
is always case for the slippers, rack for
the hats and coats place for the solled
boots and work garments, and when they
come into the sitting room or parlor they are
at home, and the refining influence of their
surroundings goes with them through all
their walks of life. They keep up with the
spirit of the times and when they encounter
the emergencies of life they are prepared to
meet them. There should be as much cul-
ture and refinement i'm the homes of farmers
as in any other homes in our land. "ShOuld
farmers wives and daughters follow the
fashion in dress?" 1t is no longer good taste
to say ''n the fashion," or follow the
fashion," The new phrase is ''the correct
FORM" But to answer the question as it is
given. 1t would be better for farmers
WIVES and daughters not to follow the
fashions as we generally do Tin fact most of
us follow good ways behindD but to keep
up with and in the fashions. Well dressed
people always command more respect than
those who are poorly dressed, and those who
are well dressed are those who are dressed
in the fashions of the day. What was be-
coming and attractive last year looks dowdy
and unpresentable this year, simply because
it is out of fashion. Are farmers wives
and daughters class or family or genius
different from the rest of woman kind that
they should wear style of dress only after
it has been discarded by other women? If
wives work to retain the affection of their
and mothers of their sons, and
sisters of their brothers and the other girls
brothers, let them dress lin the fashion,"
for no matter what men say about dress and
the fashions, or how much they may criti-
ciZe and ridlcule and condemn them, their
hearts go out to those who are fasniOnably
dressed, no matter how absurd the fashion
may be. 1t has been said that 1.-THE way to
a mans heart'is through his stomach" but
as soon as his appetite is appeased, the eyes
of the dear man will wander from the
plainly dressed cook to the fashiOnably
dressed woman, and his heart will go with
his eyes. Appropriate dress has refining
influence upon people. Ii gives them a
self respect which elevates them and makes
them better. The rule by which the most
refined and best dressed people are governed
is not to indulge in eccentricities and to so
dress as to not attract attention.
TO the phrase ''even farmers" in Miss
Guilford's paper, Mrs. Cramer took eXcep-
ton. She was proud to say that she was
born on fam, and that she lived on farm
and was farmers wife. She thought that
farmers families should keep up and in the
fashions instead of following them.
might not be well dressed if the fashion of
ler dress is year behind the times. Mrs.
+. NJ. Shepard thought woman would
nave deal to do if she kept up with ali the
fashions. Remarks were made by ID. s.
Cramer, Geo. p. Guilford. MOntraville |
Woodin and others, cOndemning eccentrici-
lies and approving the idea of ladies dress
ng so as not to attract attention.
The gentlempn's subject for discussion !
vas laid over for the next meeting. Mrs. |
Ezra Mason, Miss Nellie Cramer and Miss |
Myrtle Mason will then each give a brief |
sketch of her favOrite author. Adjourned |
% meet in four weeks at the home of Geo. |
?. GuilfOrd.
Within the past year Mr.. Woodin's people |
nave built fine house. They have fine |
,arn, a fine herd of cattle and other domestic |
lnimals. They have tools and machinery |
o facilitate the work of the farm, their |
rome is beautifully located aud the grove of |
naples from which their farm is named can
lot be excelled in Shiawassee county, but |
he best of all their possessions are their two |
inc boys. S. G.
OwOsso, July 5, 1892.