The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-06-06
FARM WORK FOR THE FAMILY
SUMNER VACATION or A NRW
YORK HOUSEHOLD.

sUMMER VACATION or A NHw
i YORK HOUSEHOLD.
Health and Prent Found BY o widow I'M
Her Three Ysung Sons Out IN ulino,,
fes 1hree Msnsbs Of the Yet
Treasures % Farm IAfe In the west,
'For four years now I have been taking
my family II throe boys 10 Illinois for the
summer 10 work On . farm
Tbs speaker was . woman whoa.
husband died Abouts six years ago Of tuber.
oaiosks, leaving her with . very small
tncoms On which 70 bring up and efucatv
their three young SOM. ons Of whom
wAs ssroas.
~ = tie best plan I hsve been able "a
dsvtss for keeping my home together
hero b Nov Yosk and giving my childrso
TIE bealthful summsr outing neces.
aary.s she Continued. the frst year W
won't nay eldest son and ] wore the only
workers. Now We arc all engaged to do
Soma part d tbs farm work.
sWe 70 for tho three months whsn thu
demand for labor n at its height. I heap
the farmers wife. daughter and regula,
hired SRI cook. wash. put up fruit and
vegetables and do anything elsa that
comes 70 hand. For doing this work I
receive - . month. =
my eldest son, who b not In college, WIN
reoeive $50 q month this year on the farm,
a raise Of SO since last summer. ThA
younger boys both get SIS and earn Il.
sUnless : re-eoc -. M-aa CT . W|es.eyn
farm at this season Of the year when tho
hugo crops arc being prepared for and
harvested he cannot conceive Of people
In tho country ever being 20 busy and Ia
such q rush. II things were not made %
comfortable for the workers they would
never stand IT,
Il have never such bountifll
supplies Of food "a II u the habit out there
TO lay in against the harvest time. Every.
thing that a be made and laid by for
that time Is prepared. Barns. haylofts and
every nook and corner are made ready 10
house the extra help. That Is whore ny
work comes In.
"Of course . man IN making theee prop
arations could In many instances do a.
we'll and perhaps better than q woman.
The trouble 10 to get the men. Out thev
on the large farms they generally have 10
take the help they can get and make II do.
Although harvesters come out there 10
droves there never seem TO be enough.
| The cry ever since Ne have been going
there is for moro. more.
my reason for going there Is that We
can make money vhile living in tho open.
Every minute Of the time mean health
and strength for my boys. They are
strong and healthy enough now. but I
don't mean to dive up keeping them at
outdoor work for ssveTal years to come.
II q ike preoantiop bad been taken With
my hashand In his youth I am convinced
he would b With mo to-day.
Being regular help. We have the ad-
vantage OF sleeping In the Homestead
Ny three son have . which has
% many windows that It Is next to sleep-
Ing out Of doors. ! am put in the room
with the hlred girl.
Being . hired girl out there doesn't
mean Whist II would hero in the East
Thsrt thu girls 20 ont from homo to work
for tbsir nAightors or friends who need
thsir services and are able to pay for
than. They affer no social humiliation
On ths contrary they have o better op-
p~ortunity Of showing Oh their accom-
plishments ~ housekeepers and cooks
than they would have u they remained
at homo whers an elder or q younger
sister shared honoEs with them.
Two Of The hired giris who have worked
on the farm where we 60 have married
Oh during the four years We have been
going tho n. Both married independent
farmers, one the son Of the house. She
was o lovely girl. well educated and in
dustrious. and the mans family were glad
to nave him 90 well settled.
The hired girl who Is to be there this
year u q college graduate. She worked
her way through college. 1t seems. without
any idea of o profession that would keep
her In q city. but simply to be well edu-
ca tied and to add to her information about
managing q household. They say she is
very pretty and not a bit stuck up, though
she believes IN reading good books and
subscrtbes to q Now York paper and
You hear a great deal about the lack
of convenience % the farm. That "
true here in thu East, where the farms are
ANAL and the profts como by. close shay
Ing. but out In the West. where things
are done on the largest scale. whore acres
are counted by the hundreds n each
made to produos tta maximum, conditions
are much better for the women.
@The place where I 60 has had a tele'
phone for more years than l know about
There Ia water In tbs house, all over u
and In every outbuilding where 1t 10
needed. The women have new cloth
and vehicles about a often as women
Do 70 cities I mean we'll to do people.
Farming out there doesn't mean hard
work and poverty added TO seciusion and
lack Of knowledge Of the world. The
reason my o wa 30 anxious TO get,a
college course waa that both sons al the
farmer who employs Us had been through
Zone Of them was q football playera at
one Of the great colleges here In the East.
He kssW al about Now York and the other
RTeat dtjes Of the country n yet he was
there Worhfng With his sleeves turned up
and barehaaded. His college oourse had
him the Independence OF LABOR
~ yell a. how to exsrt his faculties 70
Tie best advantage.
NOV both Of those Sons have farms
Of their own and o OF them Is In me
about tho most proinlnent
man In his community. lam glad enough
10 have my boys go and know the az.
Of such . life and DO thrown Id
With such men.
Il must come back to New York eaen
because to educate my boys III
necessary for me to supplement my niue