The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1900-08-01

| joy and ease, and she usually does il
cheerfully. On farm it has been 8
woman's share of the duties to do the
housework and rear the children ever
since Eve gathered fig leaves fol
clothes and raised Cain in the Garden
of Eden. Certainly work must be
done, but let it be done cheerily and
bravely, do not make life drudgery.
"In contrast to the farm slave as we
have just seen her, let US have the
farm mistress, the queen of the beauti.
full realm called home, one whom the
Maker, God, may look upon, as He
did at the first, and say, 1T is very
good Let us learn to have our farm.
houses homes, where comfort and
good cheer abound, where labor is
evenly distributed to all and made q
burden to none, where there are books
and magazines, where time Is had
tor reading, music, prayer and all
proper effort for higher, better things
of life, 80 that we may grow. morally
and Intellectually as we'll as physic-
ally. These things attained, and the
much-vexed question of how to keep
IuO Ou IuO Will DC da5W o. gu
once for ALL" p.
Another paper was by Mrs. Arthur
Grabowskii before the Richmond
County Agricultural Society at Angus
ia, Ga, who said:
"The bride, wooed with the ardor OF
youthful affection, too often becomes
the household drudge, the higher
servant, bearing most of the burdens
of the domestic economy and sharing
scantily in the results of the farms
business. A pathetic little incident
illustrating this came lately to my
notice through the medium of one OF
our city papers. The editor, present
at bank on business, saw farmer
coming in, his hands full of the bills
paid to him for part of the years cot.
ton crop just sold. He was accompan-
led by the patient wife, the result of
whose faithful domestic labor was
part of the money in the farmers
hand. Dressed in her hest-and yet
how shabbily with little one cling
ing to her, much in need of proper
clothing, the wife wistfully looked at
the money being deposited, and finally
touched the farmers arm and plead
for small share of that deposit. The
farmers brow clouded at such unlock
editor appeal, but being in good spirits
after the successful sale of his crop, he
recognized the occasion as meriting
generosity, and, reaching into his
pocket for a well-flled purse, he fish.
ed out from it the magnificent coin Of
one-half dollar, and giving it to his
wife, told her 60 and buy what she
wanted.
"Oh, yes The same scornful ex-
preston 1 see on your brows came
over that woman's face. and, if I
remember right, the editor said he
heard her murmur, God pity your
small SOUL But is such an incident
an isolated one? Is it an exception to
the rule, or is it not a fact that only in
degree, but not in substance, the treat
ment of the wife by the husband is
is often that of the brute the editor
wrote about? Not on the farm alone,
but in the homes of the city do men
forget that the obedience woman
promises at the altar must be preceded
by the honor and love- also promised, 1,
and how can love survive when 1t is
met by Indifference, and how honor
when meaness stamps the object to be
honored? If there is any pursuit OF
life where man and woman, become
one by the sacred rite of matrimony,
should be co-workers, co-equals, it is
on the farm. OF necessity the condi-
tions of city life are here concentrated, |,
and the 'multum in parvo' is the de-
vice of the farmers surroundings.
How often could the device of city
life be 'Parvum in multo,' little in
much'-little comfort, little satisfac-
ton, though surrounded by the multi
tudinous appliances of the congregat-
ed life of a community; how universal
should the farmers device be, 'Mul-
tum in parvo,' much in little,' when
applied to the resources of the indivi-
dual life of the farm. 1t is by justly
appreciating, rightly fostering the
possibilities of that family life amidst
the surroundings of Gods nature that
the farmer can become thu envied OF
his brother townsman.
"By the natural fitness of things the
work of the farm has divided itself in
to the outside larger operations and
the work pertaining to the homestead
and it's immediate surroundings of the
dairy, the poultry-yard, the garden,
etc. The former have fallen to the
share of man, the latter to the share
of woman. Is 1t not often a fact that
nearly the whole proceeds of both di.
visions of the farm 60 into the field
operations, attempting to make posi-.
ble afve.cent cotton crop or an equal.
ly unremunerative crop, whilst the
dairy, the poultry-yard, the garden
suffer the fate of every quantity that
has to yield periodical percentage ol
reduction, and has no equivalent OF
greater percentage of increase ? It Ii
only question of time when the ex
hausted dairy, empty poultry-yard
and neglected garden will be sad illus
} trations of farming done without 6
just proportioning of the farm's re
sources to the FARMS productive in
dustries. Is it the true position o
the farmers wife to be the head of .
part of farm work that is to contribut,
,, to the farms assets, but Is to receiv,
r no help, no working capital from tn
same?
r "If there is truth in what [ hay,
: heard those say, better Informed thar
, /, and which meets me az an oil
2 chestnut in the papers of the South
3 that diversification Of crops and tn