The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-07-08
On BARLEYCORN.

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"a correspondent in the Gibson
County News says if he was looking
for a neighborhood in which to set
tie forilife The would not ask this
man or that one for information,
but would go to their cemetery.
Although it is quiet place it tells
the tale of the living in louder
words than can be told by its citi-
zens. If the graves have been we'll
kept, fenced and cared for it would
kbe an index to the public spirited
Notifications of its citizens and he
klld settle there for life. Now,
" Mould hate to have our neigh
borhood Judged by that man for
although no fence surrounds our
cemetery, and our tombs and grave
stones are knocked down and brok-
en- and the stock roam over them at
their own sweet will, and the briars
and bushes and weeds are allowed
to mature crops of blossoms and
seeds and the graveyard gone down
with the ruins of time, nevertheless,
in the bosoms and hearts of ma
iority of our people throbs as pure
dove and as noble sentiments as are
to be found under the sun. = And
when they visit the apparently de-
serted spot of our loved ones, floods
of tears, like showers of diamonds,
rush down to kiss the trampled
grass on the little mounds. Yet
what can we do but put up little
tackey lot fence that is in every
body's way and in which another
grave can scarcely be dug We ask
the public to suspend judgment for
another season and perhaps our
people will wake up to the realiza-
tion of the Importance and necessi-
ty OF a public-spirlted move in
identifying its public cemetery.
We have done every grade of
work on farsnfrom cleaning out
ditch to bossing 40 h lnds in a berry
|.ant6h, and we have done every kind
6rk ia a house from cutting out
rment with an AK and sewing
I'D a broom needle to spanking
the children and stuffing them on
soothing syrup, have had charge of
a family of children with and with
out mother, have cooked, MIXED,
swept, secured, scrubbed, made up
beds, nursed, went down to the
wash tub and wore out wash boards, |
strung beans, carried in stove wood,
churned, made light bread, fretted
and tuned and scolded the children,
and speak from solid experience
when ! say womans work is hard
er and more killing, breaks down !
more constitutions, is more weari-
some, shows less and is less appre-
ciated than is the work of man.
Where a house is any way half
kept there is no rest. If there is a
mortal on earth that needs the SYM
pathy of the Christian public it is
the mother who is worrying her life
out trying to do the 10000 duties of
a first.class housekeeper, poultry
raiser, nurse, seamstress, milk
maid, washer woman, gardener,
hostess and cook for an unappreci-
alive husband who puts in half of
his time talking politics. No won
Ter her strength is gone and the
lush of youth been swallowed up
oy premature old age before she
caches mid life. The cares of
1oung motherhood and the 10000 II
'ther duties that follow in quick
have driven many a
iweet woman to an invalids grave
ut should have been to-day enjoy
Ralth it she had not overtaxed
iz---..sngth to crafty the unrea-
ON poor judgment of money
oviud husband. Go nurse that !
,aby, gou old greedy hog, and hire
hose biz family washSngs done and
watch the color return to your wife's