The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-02-20
II

.#y atmosphere. The PAPER tell US,
..erE daN, Of railroad accidents. ship
.ecks, mine explosions, house burn
#- murders, suicides, d~rOWnings,
.nbcries, political ganIblings, life in
..Iance s~teaIings: men -loIing with
.rse. mems wives, women running
...ay with other WCmen's husbands,
.l divorces, scductions and q thou
sand and one other things calculated
.s keep the whole land IN Il state Of
dread and awful .fOrcbOdding and
make young heads turn ~prematureIy
-.eE. But the newspapers cannot, cot
..-t. they do not), tell Of those
..u1DIes which are most torturine,
and are the hardest to be borne
feh as domestic and family troubles
-1f which neWs-gatherers are not al
bowed to get even an inkling.
Everybody is sure 10 hear OF a
-.uash-up on q railroad, the Wrecking
.t . vessel, the burning of q house
.ad the hair-brcadth escape Of it's
~..suatcs, and all such like things, for
arr are public property. But the
...I troubles which crush hearts,
."tu& ON premature old age, and in
.". men and women to take poison
III. blow out their brains, are kept
#..ru the public, in fact, are hid away.
T.. a skeleton. in the closet.
Who, seeing the smile on the Wife's
..', would ever suppose that she
U:t a drunken man for Il husband?
fHat n had TO cut and SkimD, at
e}oI5 point, to make herself and
litIdrcn preSentable, in appearance
at church ana school, as well as %
keep the wolf of hunger from nvad-
uIg the home? The trouble which
that WOnan has to bear is a thou
sand fold more %torturing and soul
cushing than il her husband. on one
eft her children, had been killed in
Il wreck.
! meet q man on the street. at the
Clurch, OF in the marts of business,
and he tries to wear q cheerful! face;
but, underneath Il smile. l can dis
Germ the line Of adncs Others
discover those lines and wonder why
"a man whose wife is SO popular, be-
cause 50 charming in and,
with all, 50 pretty, shouldn't always
be happy. The world don know all.
Those who see that wife at her best
on the street, at church, in society,
DO not NOW that, at home. she is
StUVen in dress. careless OF her WiIclN
duties, in~atientiVe and almost Grim
inallY negleCtful of all those arts
with which HEAVIER intended that
wives should soothe, beguile and sub
due the fiercer nature of the sterner
sex. No, the world don't know that
the wife who seems to be SO devoted
to her husband, speaking to him in
II voice 50 lIlUSlCdl, when addressing
sh,m in company, is Il ShreW at home
with the voice OF Il hvena and the
claws tiguratively speaking of q wild
cat. that, instead Of those beautify-
ing cosmetics, which make beg look
50 angeliCalIy sweet, going
abroad, she too often paints with
}inegar. and wears . crab-apDle coun-
tenance when the tired husband
comes home to rest. The world don't
know how unruly, and disresDectful
to his father, is That undutiful boy
Ior whom the father is devoting al
his energies, hoping against hope, to
make Il man of him: nor Will the
Horld ever know how incOnSiderate |
md ungrateful is that n~OVel-reading,
faZy. untidy. romance-lOving girl
mothers only Chi!d"-fOr whom
she is shaving herself, 10 give her an
education, and make her a good Wo-
No, the public never hears of the |
Iea1 troubles OF the hOmes-the |
uoubles that wear and tear and
break SO many hearts. They are the |
unseen, the unpublished, pe~rpleNities,
~&unOyanceS and sorrow which are |
harder to be borne than the greater
calamities which move, as if with one |
IMPULSE, the whole world; because
E1ey are personal, and have to s. be
borne in silence.
~ l. IlCEI &olIi1'1CtIIlNS III S'1 ~ 4
.Eus of domestic troubles everywhere |
! go: almost every day, l am made |
Hrguainted With things hat make
lives unhappy. Its enough to har-
roW the feelings of a state to say
nothing of the feelings of Il Methodist
preacher. to sit and hear the sad
story of i sisters troubles who
nought she was going TO raise five
hundred chickens, but lost mighty
nigh every one of them" Yes" h
SIS, in the first place the cold snap
'sot came in February killed all, or
as good as all, my first ~hatchings; |
a4G what few We're left, that old o
IN the pen, out there. eat the. last
one of them. l was expecting to
nave chickens big enough 10 eat by
'ar time Of the May meeting, when |
N"S hoping to have You and the
'E@slding Elder to stop With US. But
sn il is"
My hens were laying mighty
"'|i' said another sister. land | was
sure ia have at least wen hens set
ny ON sixteen eggs apiece by the
-' of ADriI-that would have been
".s"' to three hundred and twenty
."| SENS, il. all the eggs had Matched
but, bless your sou, [ didn't get
@.s "@a~ at all, hardly, With mighty
..-- .ttE hens a-laying, as ] thought.
" lp lind out. an old hound dog,
l.a. longs to q negro, over the
"",.."u, Just laid round here in the
pushes. md every time a hen cackled
'' "'uld slip to the nest and eat the
'"e. shell and all. But | guess |
NED one egg too many for him.
".go ii mighty nigh full of st~ricllnine
.ut put 1t into q nest. as q sort ola
- egg, He got it all right, and ii
HhI 90 down the road 20 that ditch
n|.u@e, and look out in the bushes.
"uJ see his bones. ! declare. I've
MAD the worst Iuck [ ever did have
...l my chickens, this year, and it
'- worried me almost to death.
' reckon | have more trouble than
~nvbody.'
~ ave the poorest garden [ ever
d, this time of the year" said an
".aer lady. In the first place, it was
most planting nap time before
ruId get the old man to have the
arden broken up; he was SO busy
INNING that old saw mill, which
""Ifies him mighty nigh to death,
nd runs him in debt every day. I've
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