The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-06-12

needed for successful Southern farm
ing, then there should be placed for
the use of the head of those indus
tries, for the use of the wife, pro-
portionate amounts of the proceeds
of the farm to carry on her work
satisfactorily. The same line of
argument would point out the good
effect a more just apportiQnment of
the money earned on the farm to the
domestic economy would have. Most
men provide according to their
means pretty fairly when they are
to sit down at the table, and
the gastric region is a tender spot
with men, but are they careful that
wife and children should share equal
Iy in all the providing on table, hous-
ing, clothing? And T they willing
to turn over to wife and children for
the qualification of the ideas of lux
ury of these a duplicate amount of
money spent on tobacco, treating
and liquor? I, of course, do not
know that any money ever goes out
of the mems pockets for liquor, but
traversing, as I do, on my afternoon
rides many of the roads of Richmond
county, I have noticed that it is for
tunate that many of the mules of
the farmers seem to know the way
home by themselves as their masters
are asleep in the wagon, and I can
not think that all the jugs I see in
the wagons are carrying vinegar for
pickles.
"But is there not yet another line
in which the work of the farm, es-
peoially in charge of woman, needs
Improvement and in which she does
not yet fill her true position?
s'Take from life all sunshine, all
color, all perfume, all thati is esthetic,
and life would be it's own empty sim
ilacrum. Take from the life of the
farm all that can elevate it to an es-
thetic standpoint, and it would be a
hard existence under very gloomy
realities. Every flower that clings
to the porch, every bird that finds a
home under the caves of the house,
every tree that is cherished in the
yard, every nail that is driven into
it's proper place that keeps fence and
house complete, every bucket of lime
or pot of paint that keeps the prem
Uses pleasant to the eye, every little
curtain, cheap but clean, that hangs
behind the weIl-washed windows
every picture, chrome though it be,
that hangs unspecked (by flies, mind
you y from the walls-every one of
a hundred little things that yet to-
gether make the domestic life of the
farm. Oh, how would our Southern
farms improve if the Southern wo-
would but know that a part of
their true position on the farm is to
make farm life beautiful Can there,
then, be a question that the true pO-
of woman on the farm is yet
among the problems of the future?
When the farm progresses to the
position of a well-ordered business,
having it's debit and credit account
with each of its fields and industries ;
when it's capital is fairly apportioned
to the different branches of work,
and it's receipts r correspondingly
divided when the farmer admits
the wife az his business partner, en-
titled to her just share of the profits
the farm, and when he remem-
bers that woman won does not
necessarily mean that neglect and
Indifference T as acceptable to the
wife as ardOr and attention were to
sweetheart-when the woman on the
farm realizes that upon her depends
not only the cooking, the care of the
children and other domestic but that
everything that makes life on the
farm pleasant as far as neatness, .
and establishment can make it,
ire hergespecial charge, and that
she also must remember in the hard
working, ageing husband, the lover
IF her youth, then, and only then,
will woman's true position on the
be reached, and the Garden of
eden will find again a place on the
earth a rural life will become the
of those bred and dwelling in
jhe confinements of city life"
TRAINING A CHILD.