The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-02-15

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used to receiving her weekly wages,
and doubtless missed It, and thought
che wasn't living.
This is true story of another hired
girl, who was wiser In her day and
generation.
Once upon a time there lived
a certain thrifty farmer, who GER
tainly understood the financial
value of woman In the home.
He had secured verv capable young
woman to care for its mistress
less condition and to take charge of
his half dozen motherless children.
This included keeping away moth and
rust In commodious home, cooking
meals for seven or eight, washing,
ironing, churning and care of the
milk, and quite probably milking, and
stopping the pigs. Where the fami-
ly sewing came In is not recorded.
For a compensation not exceeding
two dollars a week, this capable
young woman performed her part so
satisfactory that the thrifty owner of
broad acres conceived the idea that
by making her his wife he could cave
the aforementioned two dollars per
week.
She for maximum of work and a
minimum of support, and should she
survive him, a life interest In one
third of the broad acres, should she
hold out to the end, as the former in
cumbent had failed to do. She, poor
thing, was enjoying the rest afforded
by simple six feet of earth.
This Is plea for fairness, believing
that with the average American man
to know his duty is to do it-a plea
that the wife may have some money,
be 1t more or less, to call her very
own, for which she is accountable to
no one, at least as much as Is spent
for tobacco, cigars and lodges by the
husband, tor her use for charity or
whatsoever pleaseth her. This will
work for improve ment in the home,
man will be the gamer. "The
woman's cause Is mans, they rise or
sink together"
There may be few failures, for
again quoting Mrs. Poyser. How.
ever, I'm not denying the women are
foolish, God Almighty made 'em to
match the man, but In most cases
life In the home will be sweeter,
nobler, more satisfying.
The home and not the individual ia
the unit of society, hence whatever
helps In the upbuilding of the home is
help to society and the nation at
large.
A small boy was telling a neighbor
that his mother got up early and pre-
pared his fathers six o'clock break.
fast, at $3.50 his brother had breakfast
and little later he and the other
school children had theirs, stating
with pride that his father received
SO 90 a day and his brother $500 a
week. And what does your mother
get?
"Mother get why mother don't
work." was the astonished reply.
doesn't she," said the neighbor, II
thought you just said that she got up
at five O'Clock and prepared three
breakfasts every morning."
. "Oh, Mothers work don't count. y
was the reply of the future law-maker
We may not be able to convince all
the husbands of today that woman's
work In the home has financial value
but your bows and mine will be the
husbands of tomorrow, let us train
our sons In the belief that mothers
work does count, and so make life
easier for the wife and mother of the
: future.
Here then the conclusion of the
whole matter. A woman's work In
the home has toO-iittle recognized
financial value-furthermore by all
laws human and divine she Is en-.
titled to a share In the dividends
The granting this justice is only an.
other step in the evolutionary de.
velopment of man.
, A TECT