Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-09-18
NOT TRUE OF FARM LIFE.

%Drudgery and MOnOtOny Less Appli-
cable to Farm Life Than Life in
Town.
We are sick and tired of all this
talk about "the drudgery and tragedy
|of the farmers wife," and the monot-
ony OF her life. We know that there
are individual cases in which such
terms apply, but on the whole they
are not more applicable-in fact, are
much less applicable-in the case of
working country people than in the
case of working towns-people.
Nobody should ever be allowed TO
speak in public who doesn't know bet
ter than to speak of relieving the
~t,arrenness and monotony of farm
life. The average country woman
has no such colorless or tragic exist
2nce as the average city workingman's
WIFE, shut in crowded quarters and
often forced to take in sewing or carry
on other work besides looking after
her household. The average country
woman a no such hard lot as the
M~age-earninf girl in the geeat cities.
homeless n frequently struggling
with Transformation and moral disas-
ter. And We go further and say the
average farm woman's' life, hard,
though h may work, is far preferable
ana should be far happier than that of
the idle, ~purposeless, useless type of
woman who knows neither the JOY OF
home-making, o of training sons and
daughters, but spends her time in a
nervous search for excitement and as
a human clothes-rack on which to dis
rlay the changing whims of a fash
ion-gOd fast becoming sickeningly vul-
gar, al we'll as silly.
. True, the farmer should buy his
wife the best ranges, stoves, ~f1reless
cookers, sewing machines, household
and kitchen cOnveniences and should
be ashamed of himself if he doesn't
have the best possible water supply
all the domestic help his finances will
permit. But while urging all these
things, let US at the same time forever
make an n of this false and foolish
"d%rudgery," "m~onotony," tragedy,
twaddle. AS one farmers wife, Mrs.
j. C.. Watson, Jonesboro, North Carroll
Ia, so we'll says in the Sanford Ex-
press:
"A farm owned by a skillfuI farmer
whose wife is a successful home-mak-
or is as near a Garden of Eden as
this old world can be. Satan hates
with a burning hatred anything re-
sembling a paradise He crept in and
soon destroyed the Garden of Eden
and he keeps an ever-watchful eye
on any place resembling So you
find him using all kinds of evil ma
Chinat'ons against the farm, One of
the deadliest he has v e gotten in On
this line is that expression about the
"drudgery n monotony of the farm
.ar's wife" 1t has been so thoroughly
absorber by many mothers that they
have a horror of their sons becoming
farmers and of their daughters mary
ing farmers. I was a farmers daugh-
ter and lived on a farm for IA years,
anG I eve for one moment found any
Crudgery or monotony. / verify be-
lieve that my heavenly abode will be-
a reproduction in a perfect form of
that grand old grove of magnificent
oaks where my little sister and I play
ed and dreamed until 1 was sent away
to school. Fifteen years spent in and
around the school oom and now for
five and a half years 1 have been a
farmers wife, and the farm and it's
work grows more fascinating each
day."-Progressive Farmer.