The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-04-23
A FIELD TO BE FILLED.
MRS. !. II. EMERY.

all well enough, keep your teeth white
of counsel Not Pears soap or even
Ivory soap. though what should we do
without them! Neither il 1t Sapolio to
brighten our tins and scrub out our sins,
and oh, IL It would only brighten our
wits as well. Neither is 1t soothing
syrup, Though children may cry for 1t
until their poor little brains are narcot-
lied by the laudnum It contains. No!
none of these answer to the great and
CRYING need Of the agricultural world.
This need IS be felt or at least
should be felt by every family living In
the country, whose hands are busy from
morning TIL night with the unending
duties of the farm, brewing and baking,
mending and making, milk to be cared
| for and cream TO be churned, only few
| minutes now and then to read a word,
fit food for reflection and to prevent &C
tual mental starvation. Words that Will
rest, uplift and help, without straining a
brain, that must sympathize with an
overtired body.
Yes the great crying need of the ag-
ricultural world of the present time is
paper that is not only devoted to the
stockman and farmer and agriculturist,
but one that remembers "the women
folks" and children.
1t Is true that the the interests Of the
wife should be Identical with those of
the husband, but it is poor rule that
will not work both ways, and does any
one suppose that the interests of the
husband are always identical with
those of the wife. Unfortunately
and most emphatically no! this Is
seldom the case. The minister or
Justice may pronunce the twain one,
but every law of the land shows which
one Is meant. AS the novelist say that
will be treated in fnother chapter, and 1t
only indirectly bears upon the greatest
need of he agricultural world.
venture to say that upon the tables
of hundreds Of farmers are to be found
no circulating matter suitable for gen.
eral reading, outside of the town or
county papers and agricultural and
stockgrowers journals. To be sure thess
journals are of the most vital import
ance. A man can as well afford to be
without them as without pillow or har.
row. One might as we'll attempt to
split wood without an ak as too keep up
with progressive farming in these en-
lightened days without first class agri
cultural journal. These papers prove
by the successes and failures recorded
what is worthy and good, but grano
factors, though they are in farming anG
stock raising, they make one grave mis-
take in not paying sufficient attention tc
the great and crying need. Perhaps the
respected editor of the Stockmen ane
Farmer will not permit me to say wha
wish. think am presuming npor
courtesy to ask any agricultural journa
to ventilate my ideas upon this subject
for to certain extent 1t casts little
reflection upon all such papers, but thu
Stockman and Farmer has been so fai
and just and so anxious withal, to b
helpful to woman, that | am going Il
ask II | am not correct in claiming tina
the great and crying need is for NOR
space and somewhat different class o
| reading matter to be devoted to tn
women and children readers of agricul
} tural papers. have access to som
forty or fifty agricultural journal,
, They range from the far north to tn
Pacific. Almost every one contains
few columns devoted to women, som
more, some less. have made a careful
study of them and am not satisfied.
The dissatisfaction arises from the fac
that the subject matter seldom seems t
meet the needs of those for whom 1t
writteN If there is any department
where the best talent procurable is need
ed It Is In the department for wome
and children. We do not want wish
washy, mandy pamby stuff, full of oil
chestnuts, In the way of worn on
recipes and CROCHET patterns, and talk
presumably from some woman, but !
reality written by men who are out @
: their sphere, trying to talk about thing
that they never can comprehend. Tn
inner mysteries of a woman's life ar
> dead letters to the smartest man. He
just like Ivory soap and Sapolio, all Ugh
in his place, but he cannot write two
manly" articles without being found out
his great big boots show under his skirt
and give him away every time, esps
cially If like Jeff Davis, he tries to rur
/ often wonder when read one of thes
"womany" man written letters II tn
4 writer even hopes to escape detection.
l once heard of young married ma
e whose wife tainted in ball room an
he cut off all the buttons that ornament
cd her dress waist, before he discovere
that It was fastened by invisible hook
Now that was just like man when
i comes 10 woman's affairs he don't under
{ stand the invisible hooks and he ha
: better not try, FOR he has quite enoug
to do to take care of himself.
. What we want is women writers &c
women. Women of extensive informi
ton and broad culture who are willin
to devote time and thought to the hal
piness of their sister women whose Of
portunities may not have been SO gre'
as their own. We want women writer