Warren sheaf., 1903-11-26
FEMININE FOLLY.

FEMININE FOLLY.
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housework in small family" This II
the advertisement which may be seer
In almost every paper In the land. and
this with country having a surplus
OF women seeking honorable ways oa
getting a living. They eagerly take ur
clerking In stores, typewriting, profes
sional nursing, become teachers Of art
music and laborers in our public
schools. quite often competing with and
throwing men out Of work, and yet by
common consent they avoid the good
old fashioned vocation of home making
and home keeping unless some plug OF
man will marry them. and then they
Will work the rest Of their lives at it
for nothing. The why of all this is
queer. We are told upon good authori-
ty that when woman does housework
for pay she ruins her social standing;
that the cooking. bed making and
sweeping and washing are all right
when she does this work in her own
home. but her social undoing when she
does it for some other woman for pay,
and that it is this thing which makes
women shun this class Of work. 1t seems
to US that there Is in this matter a whole
lot Of feminine folly. There is crying
need all over the country for this class
Of help. but it cannot be obtained for
love or money. We believe much of the
trouble comes from the old idea that
when person Is able to employ anoth-
er to do the dirty work Of life it also
carries with 1t the privilege Of regard
Ing and treating such helpers as be-
longing to an inferior class Now, while
this works all right in foreign coun-
try, where society ls stratif1ed and
classified. it doesn't work here. where
classes are unknown.
THE LITTLE FARM WE'LL TITLED.
The little farm we'll titled represents
the best and highest type of agricul-
ture. Such farms abound in the Meth
erlands, Germany. France. England,
Japan and the island Of Jersey and are
in very marked contrast to the large
farm slabbered over so common in this
country, especially in the west. Cheap
land promotes this latter class of farm
Ing, high priced land the former. A
man may slash around on ten dollar
land and make it pay, but he cannot
do 1t on land worth 500 per acre. The
small farm implies more neighbors.
better schools, better social ADVANTAGES,
better highways, greater diversity Of
crop products. exemption from the
bane of hired help. There are thou
sands of men who are carrying a
heavy mortgage on big farms when it
would be every way for their interest
to sell half their land, get out of debt.
do better work on the half kept, i'm
prove their stock. be rid of so much
help and take little comfort all round
In living, and If the wives and families
Of these men could have their way it
would be done in short order.
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WHEN TO PRUNE TREES.
We have had several inquiries as to
the best time Of the year to prune and
trim fruit trees. We first wish to say
that trees in western orchards do not
need and will not stand the amount of
pruning which eastern trees will, and
tor the west the safe plan is to prune
sparingly, combining It to the removal
OF root sprouts, crossed and interfering
limbs and those which show signs of
decay. The removal of limbs Of any
size should be done in early June, when
the flow of sap is the strongest and the
growth Of new wood rapid. The scars
will then quickly heal over. If the
limb removed is over an inch in diam
eter little paint should be put on the
cut. Small stuff and root shoots may
be removed any time
AGRICULTURE IS AN OCCUPATION.
Taking the whole list Of available
occupations open to the industrious
young men, we do not know of one
which will so surely insure him a good
living and a competence for old age as
agriculture. True, his gains may be
eat well and sleep well. enjoy good
health, eat at a we'll spread table year
in and year out, maintain a degree of
independence not found in any other
calling and by giving his business in
telligence and care can be sure of
enough to live on comfortably when he
gets old. This is SO much more than
common men in the common occupa-
tons of life secure on an average that
1t is worth thinking over
IGNORANCE AND HAPPINESS.
We noted a slovenly piece Of plowing
the other day. The field was covered
with quite heavy growth of weeds,
and in turning the land over a fringe
of them was left sticking out and up
above the surface of the plowed field.
This might so easily have been avoided