Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-26

spend a vacation on the farm. AS we are
of help or the farm just now it oc-
Cured to me that you might enjoy a sea-
son of good exercise out here on our
place. You can lave the corner room of
the farmhouse. 1t has -four windows and
a good bed, and you can have plenty OF
fruit and fresh milk: good meals and lots
of fun, but you must help us at haying
and harvest. will tell you the pro-
so that you will know all before
you come. You see, the men are scarce
l mean w~orkingmen. My father has $50
acres to take care of. We are all going
to help. We will have a god time, but
with lots of work in the hot sun. but you
can wear gloves and a big hat for protec-
ton. We will have to get up at 8 O'Clock
in the morning and help around the
dairy. The boys will do the milking.
Then we go into the fields before break
fast at whatever work father puts us to.
We have breakfast at Z o'clock. Then we
will work until 10, when we'll have a
light luncheon in the fields under some
shade tree. The maid servants bring IT
out to us. Then we rest a half hour and
work until noon, or say 1890, when we
go into dinner with the farm folks. All
eat at one table while the horses are fed
in the barn. The animals rest an hour,
so will we. Then we work until 5 o'clock
supper, and also from 6 to 1880 p. M.
Then we have free evenings. We can
nave IOtS VI lul uHtll ., WHtl we go u
bed and rise with the lark. If you come
bring a pair of heavy shoes and a dark
cotton dress of some kind. Father may
allow you so cents a day if you're good
The young recipient of the letter has
decided to accept the invitation on trial,
for two weeks at least, instead of going
to the seashore. She may return to the
city with her ideas of rural life consid-
erably changed. Where country girls
get to work on the farm and are used to
it, it is not so much of a task. but to
the city girl who is a tenderfoot that is
another story.
When farm machinery was first intro
! duced it was feared that men in the
country could get no more work. The
present boom in general business and
the convenience of troller cars and bicy-
; cles take these men to the towns, cities
and villages to work in the manufac-
tories, and the farmer is left to shift as
best he can.
For all these reasons the girls and wo-
men folks in town and country are being
pressed into service to destroy potato
bugs in the patches. hoe corn, rake in
the hay field, follow the wagons, toss the
hay to dry, and assist at a hundred things
in field, orchard, patch and garden, ar as
sist in work about the house or dairy.
The old story that a farmers work is
never done is especially true at this sea-
son of the year. Girls can even drive the
milk wagon to the creamery, drive to the
store, assist in preparing vegetables for
the kitchen, hunt eggs, and do a large
variety of other light work that requires
time and attention. OF course, the city
girls will be treated on the farm largely
like mpa but they will be expected
to help along. A first-class farmers wife
can find plenty of work for them to do
until September if the city visitors will
remain so long. The effect of the scarcity
of male help is already seen in hundreds
of hay fields, where women and girls,
in wide-brimmed hats. are already al
work. Several college and seminary pro-
~fessors are lending their assistance. They
may be sons-in-laW of the farmers in due
time. To many it is a love story all the
way through, and thus labor becomes a
pleasant affair after all.