The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-11-01

knows more about what life is and
how to live it than any other woman.
Aud her daughters, if they are as
daughters should be, have something
to employ their minds besides hlrta.
tions and fashions.
I have never lived in town. l have
no desire to do 80. Town life would
not suit we country folks very much,
as We are not very ''airish," There
are many very smart people raised in
towns; yet there are 80 many that are
not fl for anything but ''airs and
styles"
I think PansY' g letter is splendid. No,
Pansy. comparatively, the world never
looks down on a man for what he does;
hut girls must be on their "P's and
Q y" or they are thruwn aside, and
wien once cast off they are new.
or picked up. And yet we claim to be
a Christian people, and our blessed old
Bible teaches that g sin for one is q
sin for alll
must speak a word about the bach.
elors as there has been 80 much said of
them.
Let's never speak harshly of a bach
elor. We do not know their hearts.
And surely some of them have very
noble hearts. We ought all try to win
them. They make such good friends;
and when a. loves a girl and marries
her, if she will be what a wife should
be, she will have someone to love and
care for her; for a mans love is strong
and will last, if we will do our part to
keep it bright. But if we go around
grun bling and finding fault with
everything and always meet him
with a frown and a snappish word,
then WI may expect him to come to
the conclusion: "Well, l cant please
her and what's the use to try9 So /
will do as I please and matters will not
be any worse by it."
Best wishes to Aunt Jennie and
The PROGRESSIVE FARMER Nellie,
Magnolia. n. @.
This is a splendid letter. How many
other farmers wives will join our cir
Gle before next Week9-Aunt Jennitl
BACHELOR JACK" LAYS A CASE BEFORE
THE CHATTERERS.
Dear Aunt Jenmie;-I sec that the
ChatGerers are discoursing upon the
evils nt flirting and strong drink.
They are both evils that every lady
and gentleman should avoid. But it
is not my object to talk of them now.
That has been done more fully and
ably than I can. So I will relate a few
instances of carrying the 80 called
flirting to disgrace. First I was asked
60 ba present one night at MI. AS to
witness the marriage of Mi. AS daughS
ter to Mr.. BIS SOL. Mr.. BIS son did
not put in appearance there that night,
nor since. We boys said he ought to
have been horse whipped for treating
her so. Some of the girls said it
served her right for placing any con
fdence in him. Aunt Jennie, it re-
minded me Of a poem I once read in
McDUf3y's Fifth Reader, by Hood.
And the second one that I shall relate
will fit the poem of "Faithless Nelly
Gray" to a dot. The fret verse, if l re.
member correctly, reads thus:
ben Battle was a soldier bold
And used to wars alarms,
But q cannon ball took eff his legs
So he laid down his arms"
Not very many nights ago I was
asked to be present las q justice of the
peace) at Mrs. SIS, to perform the mar
riage ceremony-to make Mrs. 8 a
dashing widow, and Mr.. B., an old
bachelor, ono. Invent. When I reached
there I found some discussions and OBJ
isctions, and that Mrs. 8. had sent Mr..
B. word not to come; that she had come
to the conclusion to withdraw from the
contract and have nothing more to do
with him That left my poor old bach
elor FRIEND B. with a marriage license
and no use for 1T.
Aunt Jennie, I have given the facts
in two cases that came under my own
observation. / shall not comment on
them; but I would be glad to hear from
the rest of the Chatterers giving their
ideas and views on such cases. Bach.
eIOr Jack.
WELCOME, BROWN EYES
Dear AUNT Jennie:-I have listened
at tue Cae5Gerers and then looked at