The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-02-02
AGRICULTURAL.
The Farm RS Home [ OmfOrts.


who has the care Of The home. So it ie
with al homes. d, mothers real re
that they ought to ltain their girs to
make pleasant homes? But the farmer
is in his home m re in winter Than
most men, and he needs he comforts
OF a leasant bome. Clerks, business
men, and those who work in mills, lac
tories, aud shops, professional mt n, aud
the like mostly work III sheltered
place 8, they are warm and comfortable
al their work. But the farmer must 20
out in al kinds OF weather, must 60 to
the woods, NUT break roads, must not
stop for cod or storm. 1t is not just
pleasant TO have OF |, kitchen to sit
down in when one comes iL-thOugh
ma II Vermont farmers kitchen i
far pleasanter room than the living
rooms of thousands of working people.
A fue, large, vel furnished kitchen,
such as may be found in very many
Vermont farmers homes, is good
roou to sit down in, bu We have i'll
mind the small, crowded, i'll odortd
kuchens which are 10 be found in too
MAJ farm houses. And we NAY ques-
ton whether it is not better TO have q
smaller kitchen and larger sitting
room. II is not pleasant for he house
keeper to have people sitting around
the kitchen stove when she is cooking;
the kitchen is her work room, and if il
is too large It adds to her work ty max
ing her more travel in doing her work.
A compact, cOnvt nient kitchen is by
far the best.
The sitti G room should be place OF
rest for the family; it should be We |
warmed and lighted, should have one
or more cosy lounges and ! nty of
easy chairs. There should be bC oks
and papers and pictures, in fact it
should be the home room. Il is the
fashion now IT was, perhaps the
fashion has chauged) TO have lots of
knick nacks and not Ous, brio brac,
elegant and beautiful mai tie orna-
things, sitting, ying, and hanging
around the r, Oms. But it takes wo-
mans time aud strength to dust and
arrange and cafe for such things, and
most farmers wives have too n UGH TO
do 70 be abe to lake care of such es-
thetic trash. Better II | lain room or a
room with few really good pictures, a
few choice sea shells or curiOs, than a
room deliberately oinamenled with
fancy work. Aud most farmers can
take far more comfort in plain room,
than in TOO much ornameuted one.
1t helps man wonderfully when he
is out in the C, Id TO think of the warm,
Il-a-ant room into which he can go
wen his work is done. He forgets
the disc mforts OF the present in think
ing of the comforts to come. But if
things are TOO fine to be used, there is
not mich comfort in gong il to II pleas
ant room. The farmer has to do wi b
rather rough things out of doors, and {
room furnished 81 finely that he is
afraid TO step lest he damage some
thing. What would be comfort to q
city man of the upper classes would be
misery TO many farmer. The farmer
does not take his comfort in sitting
down in a room richly furnish' d, ht
wants an easy chair, an easy lounge tt
lie down on, plenty OF good food To ca
and, too, many want tobacco 10 smoke
The best way for "-;-~' III l'ahine
comfortable i to study the needs
and tastes of the members of the house
hold, and then try to CRAFTY the m &c
far as che can. But wife who does
not try TO please her husband, or US
band who does not care to Thank his
wife or show any appreciation Of her
Efforts to make home pleasant, such are
p i-oning the very fountain of rea
comfort. The wife must try to please
the husband, the husband must r.bl ~
the love and care and self denial of the
wife. But if there is the opposite o.
this, if there is OF ly selfishness, il there
is no care for each others happiness
then alas, hal piness will be stranger
to that home.
o of the sad things about this
country is that the present generation
of ,home-makers is dying off and an
other one is not being trained to take
its lace. Girls are being trained for {
multitude of things but not how Il
make happy homes. What the coming
generation will do for homes is hard Il
tell. The tramp is not the OILY home
less person. Many dne residence i
not home, and many man who live
in such residence goes to the club
house or a worse place to find SHADOW
of the comfor he ought 10 find at home