The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-05
a GIRL rALKs 10 aIRIs.


Dear AWnt Jennie:-I read the let
ters in Social Chat every week with
much interest. They are very nice
and some of them are really amusing.
/ read "Wer Times with much inter
est, war being all the talk now. /
hope we viii never experience such q
war. We think times are hard now
but we can get sugar, coffee, and salt.
We should all learn to work and take
care of what we make. M. @. /. spoke
Of some girls thinking it a disgrace to
work. That surely is true I am sorry
to say. I have met several who think
of nothing but having fine dresses and
q beau. An industrious girl, the only
kind worth having, will learn to cook,
keep house, iron, make her own clothes
and not have to pay rs much to have
a dress made as the goods cost. It is
nice for a girl to hoe in the garden and
have nice vegetables. I am sure all
girls are fond of vegetables they are
healthy and so is work good for the
health. II work makes our hands
rough and ugly that is an honor, not a
disgrace.
A girl should never marry before she
is twenty. and it is better If she is
twenty-five. A mere girl cannot see
the are of life aud should not take so
much responsibility on herself before
she has time to think the matter over.
What does a girl Of fifteen years know
of taking car Of a homeG Girls take
my advice and stay with ma" until
you are old enough to know what love
is and how to take care of a home. If
you do that you will be sure to stay
with ma" until you. are twenty, at
least. I am twenty and don't feel that
I would know how to take care of a
home as it should be cared FOR. As
this is my first letter to the 'Chatter-
ers" I hope they will not be Disguised
at my letter.-M. g. B.
Dear liant Jennie:-It is SO warm
that I do not know that I can write
but I will try. If it were not for our
good we'll of water, this weather would
be terrible. For my own part I had
rather have a fresh drink from our
well than ice water. Now I think ice
water is nice but one gets thirsty 40
soon after drinking it that unless you
know that you have plenty of it near
you it is best to let it alone. Our we'll
water quenches thirst, ice water does
not. God made our we'll water and
man devised ice water.
Well if you all would like to know
what is the warmest work this weather
/ think I can tell you. Just stand in
the shade and do q weeks washing
then when the clothes are ready rush
out in the sun to hang them on the
line. The reflection of the sun on the
sun on the white clothes and the direct
rays combined almost blind you for a
few minutes. imagine there are girls
who would not ~objectso much to to the
heat as TO the freckles it produces.
now i aU U1d4A4u4 Snhb 4 hW 0hEA
and do not freckle and SUN burn
doesn't show much. I do not envy
those beautiful compilations some girls
possess for / have seen some of them
punish themselves in order to preserve
them. I like to sit in q light room,
and / or 10y a romp in the orchard, too.
/ do not like TO wear gloves Except on
special occasione) for they smother me.
An umbrella every time I venture out
doors would be q nuisance. Somebody
said Give me liberty or give me
death I say let me be dark and ugly
rather than a slave to beauty. I am
not afraid to go fishing or to picnics
and I like to cook, but the stove is hot
this weather. But brother says that /
will be a good looking old woman.
Now, l find consolation in that. /
wonder how it makes you feel to know
that somebody thinks you r good
looking.-Jennie Acton.
SIX DAYS SHALT THOU LABOR.