The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-19
THE FARM HOME THE NATIONS SALVATION.

/, our girls are encouraging this line of
education is very hopeful so far as
permanent homes are concerned.
GOOD farming means permanent Occupa-
ton of the land, and this means the fam
lily on the farm. Improved conditions and
equipment in the house go hand in hand
with better farming in the field and an
inspection of many of the farm house
today will show an environment and
equipment that the average city WOma
living in a furnished rented flat would
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automobiles and have comforts in their
surroundings that cannot be found in a
which are written concerning the drudg-
cry and hardship of farm work and the
neVer-ending grind of three meals a day,
dish washing. and nothing else, are not at
all a true picture of the farm woman's
life and work. 1t is to be noted that as
Yet no farm woman has thought of in
Producing a bill to have her days work
limited to eight hours; nor has any
tenuency been discovered among farm
women or the students in the home max
ing departments of the schools to intro
duce bill regulating anybOdys work any
place. Come to think about it, if they
SHOULD do so, there would probably be Il
revolution inaugurated Immediately, for
there is not one farm woman in a thou
sand who could accomplish her days
work in eight consecutive hours. One can
readily imagine all business stopping IL
the farmer established an eight-hour day,
and his wife refused to work more than
the regulation time appointed by he%
!egiSlatively inclined city sisters. Suppose
the farm women SnOul0 Try an eight
hour day and begin getting breakfast at
O'Clock in the morning, stopping an hour
at noon. and having supper served and
the dishes washed, the milking done, the
chickens fed, and the numerous other
evening duties finished by o'clock in the
afternoon? Certain it is that if the farm
women should try it, the city housewife
would have more than the parcel post and
the middleman to contend with, for the
good farm depends upon it's workers be-
ing well fed and well cared for
1t was probably our newly appointed
secretary of state lately disap-
pointed Republican speaker of the house
who knowingly observed that diet had
more to do with national politics than did
party affiliations, and backed up his
statement by stating that the farmer who
came a representative of the country
district, from the wholesome, well spread
table of the average farm-whether it was
from the hog and hominy district or the
and beans region-with his mind filled
with the necessity of requests for
for appropriations for good roads, |
good schools and general country i'm
provements, after a few meals of terrapin |
and champagne began to feel the warlikc |
necessity for battleships and increased |
himself intended to be disloyal to his con- |
but his diet got the better of his |
and he felt the need of wal |
Looping somebody, and did not want to take |
the responsibility alone, so he got his vote |
in for the army and navy appropriation |
bill instead of the good roads and inland |
water ways.
In Canada the agricultural schools are !
giving thorough training in home work. |
Many of the agricultural colleges of thu J
west here at home having special I
courses in raising and marketing farm |
products by the farm women. Schools |
are teaching laundry work, landscape |
also home canning of fruits and vege-
tables, and in all of these courses women |
are taking an enthusiastic intereSt.-MaT- |
shall K. Holt, in California Orchard AM!
Farm,