The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1909-09-24
Wen Stay at Home While the Wife
Supports the Family.
Peculiar Changes In industrial condl'
tons Have Been Brought In Mo-
hawk Valley - Husbands Do
Practically All Houtework.

Fort Plain. n. Y.-Although ambi'
lluu and progressive, the mohawk val
los Il In a way roycrting To certain
,uaoms In vogue when Indians roamed
lhslorests and nshcd It's streams. Then
Il. squaw remained at the settlement
Wa did the real work. now the wife
hhundreds Of Instances laborH IN
ltun or factory while the husband at
tents to practically all the household
tuths- cooking. washing, etc.
This change has been brought about
lhroigh the shifting Of industrial con
fitims In the Mohawk valley Foun'
lrloi and other manufactures NJ the
Inonemploying sort have gone TO the
coal and Iron conters or 10 the west
md middle west In order to be nearer
lheh customers. and have been sue
reeded by industries In which women
can earn better wages than men.
10 one little village In central New
York there are several expert workers
In iron and steel who are tullnedged
iousekeeporF. while their wives do
rork In knitting mills and earn from
i.5O to 81 a day. The wife Instead OF
saving the family follow the foundry
has adapted herself to the new condi'
lions and gone into mill, while the
aead OF the house remains at home
over the tubs,
This does not by any means Indicate
lhe full extent To which woman Is tax
INK mems place In central New YORK;
neither does II cover the unusual yoca'
lons TO which she n resorting, She
% prominent and successful as a
grower OF ginseng. she Is frequently
successful as a hop grower. she Is ire
luently n general farmer and In one
Instance n mother and several daugh
rrs have long handled big farm
slthout any male help whatever the
husband aud father having died years
ago
This woman and her daughters have
erected barn and other buildings for
thu farm; they build and repair all
heir fences. do trenching for drainage
have dug and walled wells. do their
ogn blowing. and. In fact, do all The
work incidental to n well conducted
dairy farm In New York state. Recent
iy one OF the daughters hikcd hurried
y from the Adamless hearth and took
unto herself husband. and great was
the indignation Of the mother and sis
lefs thereat
/. The Mohawk valley has several
woman lawyers and doctors. and one
member Of the latter profession uyes
10 rural community and her prac
tlee Is 20 big that she Keeps fouI
horses and has a man for driver Sprng
sumner. fan and winter In all sorts
Of weather. no matter what the Goa
dltion Of the roads may be, she drives
BY day and night Ie hon es OF pa
uenm.
Only those who have spent winter'
10 the Mohawk valley can fully realize
What such work means mercury away
below zero; bowling iace-cuttinl
winds: fierce storms Of rain, snow ant
sket; mud hub deep or snow In IN,
highways 10 q depth heart breaking fol
nan (or woman and beast, and night
Of inky blacknoss,
Another woman has long been The
Superintendent OF one OF the larges
hitting mills In the Mohawk valley
md In the world as we'll, and another
Ills is a very young woman, has To-
lItveral years had full charge OF
llrawboard manufacturing plant lie