The Glenwood post., 1913-11-29
WHY MANY WOMEN
Leave THE farm
Ms. Wobor ef Garfield csusty
Gives Useie san Insight
Ito lie Proben
WON'T KEEP boARoEH

As farmers daughter and housekeep-
er, school teacher, county superintend.
ent Of schools a.d sanchnaa . wife
have been almost constantly in touch
with the women Of rural communities,
and do not hesitate to say that these
women are becoming more and more
dissatisfisd with the lives they live.
They are contrasting the amount Of
labor they perform, the clothes they
wear, and their social pleasures with
those of their sisters in towns and
cities, whose husbands are in equal or
poorer circumstances; and drawing
their own conclusions. This general
dissatisfaction trends sooner or later
into move from the country. when
it would be q benefit to the whole
country if the experienced farmers,
who had grown up in the work re-
NAMED ON the farm. As general de-
seEtios Of the farms by the owsers is
. menace to the we'll being Of the
nation, it is time ths governnent
sssght the main cause Aad provided .
remedy. 1 shall eoafine ny rs0asks
70 what I consider the nost vide
sVssaA ss>ss sf ssrest, namely: Tia
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IL AissA - {. IL lanily-
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i.gly e ~ .aaa, svea .tAssgh bic wife
be young and strong, with no family,
and buys her egg, butter, lard, vege
tables, has her washing done, and
handles At least part of the money re
eeived. The same men, if they happen
to be farmers, and their wives have
several small children, will expect
those wives to board from one to
dozen men, raise chickens, make but
ter, try out lard, help with the garden,
money for the extra labor. l have even
heard that in some localities in the
East man expects his wife to make
the mems beds and do their washing
and mending; but I am thankful to
say have never known a man of that
class.
A.. ia ~,o.1kb ka
buys more land and stock, requiring
more help; builds larger houses which
take more labor to keep in order;
sends his sons and daughters away to
school, hiringe xtra help in the sons ;
place, and depriving his wife of the
help Of her daughters. Besides - .
mans wealth increases he usually be.
gins to take life easier himself. Papers
constantly speak Of life made pleas-
anter by the automobile ON the farm
but you can take it as an axiom,
"That the man who drives . car does
not drive . plough team" But as the
plough team must be driven An. extra
man is hired, but the farmer does not
cease to eat, 50 the wife has one more
mouth to feed. Often, many more,
for An auto seems to revitali.e the
farmers social instincts 90 that he
constantly invites town friends, who
own autos, to "Cone, out and spen.l
the day, bring your wife and family
II the wife is away froa hoae aad
the farmer his own cock, he never %.
licits visitors, either singiy or in ear
loads. Many . man tAinks II he puts
running water into the house his
wife's life is one long round Of paeas-
ure, but people can't live on running
water; IL is . convenience, it IL true,
but the drudgery Of the farm Il tAe
three hot meaIs = day the year rounl,
with NO let up-where there are hired
men to cook for-for some one is
always At the farm. With an automo.
bile and no hired men, the wife 5 lie.
would he wonderfully more easy. With
children in school lunch at noon
would suffice, and often the whole fam
ily would 60 for picnic trips or Il
neighboring towns. eating away fror1
.:ls.n.e, bat esszsi>s.: si.sz.srsi;si meals
At 6 O'Clock .. m, II o'cIsck n, and
9 o'elsek p. -, e.d clearing y attn
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