Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-04-25
A FIELD TO BE FILLED.
MRS. J. H. EMERY.


and oh, if it would only brighten our
wits as we'll. Neither is it 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 till night with the amending
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 word,
fit food for reflection and to prevent &C
tual mental starvation. Words that will
rest, uplift and help, without straining
brain, that must sympathize with an
overtired body.
Yes the great crying need Of the ag-
ricultural world of the present time is a
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 a 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 tnother chapter, and it
only indirectly bears upon the greatest
need of The agricultural world.
venture to say that upon the tables
of hundreds of farmers are to be found
no circulating matter suitable for gen
era 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 we'll 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 a first class agri-
cultural journal. These papers prove
by the successes and failures recorded,
what is worthy and good, but grand
factors, though they are in farming and
stock raising, they make one grave mis-
take in not paying sufficient attention to
the great and crying need Perhaps the
respected editor OF the Stockmen and
Farmer will not permit me to say what
wish. / think am presuming upon
courtesy to ask any agricultural journal
to ventilate my ideas upon this subject,
for to certain extent it casts little
reflection upon all such papers, but the
;, Stockman and Farmer has been so fair
and just and so anxious withal, to be
helpful to woman, that | am going to
ask If ! am not correct in claiming that
the great. and crying need Is for more
, space and a some what different class of
reading matter to be devoted to the
, women and children readers of agricul-
tura papers, | have access TO some
forty or fifty agricultural journals
They range from the far north to the
far south, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Almost every one contains Q
1t few columns devoted to women, some
r more, some less have made careful
l. study Of them and am not satisfied
The dissatisfaction arises from the fac
6 that the subject matter seldom seems tc
meet the needs of those for whom It i,
l. written. If there is any department
II where the best talent procurable is need
y ed 1t Is in the department for womer
If and children. We do not want wish,
washy, namby pamby stuff, full Of ole
chestnuts, in the way of worn out
recipes and crotchet patterns, and talk
presumably from some woman, but ii
g reality written by men who are out o
their sphere, trying to talk about thing
/ that they never can comprehend. TIL
e inner mysteries of a woman's life ar,
dead letters to the smartest man. He /
just like Ivory soap and Sapolio, all RICH
in his place, but he cannot write "wo
II manly" articles without being found out
his great big boots show under his skirt
=" and give him away every time, espe
cially if like Jeff Davis, he tries to run
4 often wonder when read one of thes
: "womany" man written letters If tn
writer even hopes to escape detection.
l once heard of young married ma
N whose wife tainted in ball room an
to he cut off all the buttons that ornament
as ed her dress waist, before he discovere
as that it was fastened by invisible hook,
" Now that was just like man when
n comes to woman's affairs he don't under
ne stand the invisible hooks and he ha
better not try, tor he has quite enoug
- to do to take care of himself
What we wants women writers fe
women Women of extensive inform;
ton and broad culture who are willin
TO devote time and thought to the hal
piness,of their sister women whose OF
Y portunities may not have been so gre
y as their own. We want women write
who are humanitarians arJ ,,,ho g..