Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-03-11

ting hot | go To my flower garden aud
gather choice half-hl0wn rose and
spray of brides wreath and arrange them
in my hair. | then sweep the floors and
cook breakfast.
While the other members of the fami-
~ are eating breakfast | strain away the
mornings milk (for my husband milks
the COWS while ] get breakfaSu, ANA fill
my husbands dinner pail, for he viii
20 10 work in our other farm for the
day.
BY this time it is $50 o'clock. Ny
husband is gone to his work and the
stock are loudly pleading TO be turned
into the pastures. | drive them Il quar-
ter of q mile, turn them in and come
back. Then there is horse in the barn
that belongs in a field where there is no
water. | take it to 4 spring quite dis
lance from the barn, bring it back and
turn 1t into field with the sheep.
The young calves are then turned out
INTO the warm sunshine, and the stock
hogs, which are kept in pen, are clam
orng for feed. | carry a pailful of sWill
to them and hasten to the house TO turn
ont the chickens and put ont feed and
water for them, and it is, perhaps, ESQ
a. m.
Il have not eaten breakfast yes hnt
that can wait | make the beds next and
straighten things up in the living room.
for | dislike TO have the early morning
caller lind my house topSy -turvy. When
this is done | go 10 the Kitchen. which
table and take a mouthful of food occa-
sionally as | pass to and fro ut my work
until my appetite is appeased.
by the time the work is done in the
kitchen it is about 1;l5 a. M. and the
cool morning hours have flown, and no
hoping done in the garden yet, and the
childrenS toilet has to Toe attended TO and
rhu1uiDm has 10 be done.
! Finally the children are washed and
churning done. and ii Is = O'Clock. Ihe
sun is getting hot but no matter, Weeds
die quickly when cut down in the heat
Of the day, and | use the hoe to a good
advantage until the dinner hour which is
| | 80 A. III, We come in and ! comb nay
hair. put fresh flowers in il, eat cold
dinner. put out feed and water for the
chickens. set hen. perhaps, sweep the
/ floors again. sit down and rest and read
few m0meutS Ii is nearly ! O'Clock
and | sweep the douryard while / am
! waiting for the clock to strike the hour
! Il make and SOW flower bed, dig
around some shrubbery, and so back TO
| the garden to hoe until time to de the
/ chores at night, but ere long some hogs
| come M to the back gate, through the
! wheat field, and when ] so to see what is
wrong | find that the cows have torn the
/ fence down, and, they, too are in the
! W neat itiN'
with much difficulty / get them back
| into their own domain and repair the
| fence. | hoe in the garden till O'Clock;
! then | 90 into the house and get supper.
and prepare something for the dinner pail
tomorrow. When supper is all ready il
is SET aside. and ! pull few hundred
plants of tomato. sweet potato or cab
| bage for transpanting. set them in 4
cool, moist place where they will not wilt
! | then go after the horse. water him, and
put him in the barn; call the sheep and
house them, go after the cows and milk
/ them, feed the hogs, put down hay fol
three horses. and put oats and corn IN
| their troughS. set those plants and faster
mp the chickens; and it is dark. BY this
time it is s o'clock p. M, my husband ha.
| come home and we are eating supper
When we are through eating | make tn
beds ready. aud the children and then
father go to bed, | wash the dishes ant
! get things in shape to get breakfas
| quickly next morning 1t is now abou
9 O'Clock ., M, and after a short prayel
| retire for the night. New York Trlb
| une