The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-06
ToFaIsd BY Nervous Diseases,

druggists.
Grabowski before the Richmond County
Agricultural Society, ut Augusta, Ca.
who said:
1.-THE bride, wooed with the ardor of
youthful affection. to often becomes the
household drudge, the higher se5vant,
bearing most Of the burdens Of the do
nestle economy and sharing scant!ly 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 bus
mess, saw farmer coming IN, his
hands full of the bills paid to him for
part of the years cotton crop Just sold.
He was accompanied by the patient
wife, the result OF whose faithful do
nestle labor was part of the money
in the farmers banda. Dressed in her
best-and yet how shabblly-with lit
tie one clinging 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 a small share of that
deposit. The farmers brow clouded at
such unlooked-for appeals. but being
in good spirits after the successful, sale
of the crop he recognized the occasion
as meritIng generosity, and, reaching
into his pocket for well-fllIed purse,
he tished out from 1t the magnificent
coin of one.half dollar, and giving It to
his wife told her to go and buy what
she wanted.
by the natural fitness of things the
work of the farm has divided itself into
the outside larger operations and the
work pertaining to the homestead and
It's Immediate surroundings of the
dulr:., the poultry yard, the garden,
etc. The former have fallen to the
share OF man. the latter to the share
OF woman. 1t is not often fact that
nearly the whole proceeds OF both dl
visions of the farm 90 Into the field
operations, attempting to make posi-
bic five-cent cotton crop, or an equal
ly unremuneratlve crop, while the
dairy, the poultry yard and neglected
garden viii be sad illustrations OF
farming done without just proper
tlonlng of the farms resources to the
farms productive Industries. Is 1t the
true position OF the farmers wife to be
the head of a part of farm work that
is to contribute to the FARMS assets,
but is to receive no help, no working
capital from the same?
IF there is truth in what I have
heard those say better informed than
!, which meets me as an old chestnut
In the papers Of the south, that diver
sIficatlon of crops and the production
of everything the smaller industries are
capable Of adding is needed for success
full southern farming, then there should
be placed for the use OF the head of
those industries. for the use of the
wife, proportlonate amounts of the pro-
ceeds Of the farm to carry on her work
satisfactorily. The same linz OF ar
gument would point out the good effect
a more just apportlonment OF the mon
ey earned on the farm 10 the domestic
economy would have.
How would our southern farms I'M
prove II the southern women would but
know that part Of their true posi-
ton on the farm Is to make farm HE
beautiful. Can there then be dues-
ton that the true position OF woman
on n farm is yet among the problems
Of the future? When the farm pro-
crosses to position OF well-ordered
business having It's debit and credit
account with each Of Its field and IN
dustries when Its capital Is fairly op-
portIoned to the different branches OF
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