Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-06

family that hardly have sleeping room
for the children. North Dakota is all
| right if we are only fixed for the eli
mate"
Another North Dakotan writes:
what to do with the eatables is
the next thing. If a refrigerator can
not be had, have a homemade dumb
waiter in the kitchen that goes down
to the cellar, and when a good many
things have to be brought up one trip
will do downstairs by the use of the
waiter"
Another farmers wife writes:
81 think the most crying need is to
have water piped from the barn to the
house and a sanitary closet Of some
kind provided and a bath, so that we
may not have to perform our ablu-
tons in a tin washbowl in the she'd"
Many writer's, particularly those in
the less thickly settled sections, COM
plain bitterly of the large fees, up to
500, charged by physicians, and some
frankly state that medical and dental
| attention is beyond the average farm
er's reach in their localities. They
suggest that the government supply
them with information as to what to
do in emergencies. A federal system
| of rural nurses is also suggested as a
| possible remedy. 81.
Educational needs are discussed in
a separate bulletin and the replies
from North Dakota indicate that there
is a pressing necessity to spend less
on building up our institutions of
higher education and get closer to
the educational needs of the farmers.
A woman writes: ="
THE help We need the most is to
my mind that you make it possible for
us to keep our children at home.
Give us schools in the country that
will give our children a fairly good
| education in their own neighborhood
instead of compelling us to send them
to the large cities, where their heads
are filed with foolish notions, and the
desire for farm work driven entirely
out of their heads, both boys and
girls. We have poor school houses,
with an inexperienced teacher taking
care of seven. grades in n room.
! Why not give us a chance to have our
children educated properly with the
love for farm and home unbroken?'
A man writes: NJ.
."Centralized schools, teaching ayri-
culture and domestic science, fitting
the farm boys and girls for their flu
ture life, instead of the present day
curriculums with their tendency to
send boys and girls to town, where
they often ares9no help, but a burden
and outside of home influence they
often 60 estray. The central school
will also serve as a social center,
where the entire community will meet
to discuss affairs of mutual interest.
Science, art and invention have made
rapid strides during the last few dec.
AIDES, but rural schools for the most
part remain poorly equipped, poorly
attended, worse taught than they were
80 years ago." ~r" s'+s>ss,
One writer reaches the conclusion
that it is not the work a woman does
on the farm that ruins her health, but
the adverse conditions under which
this work is done.
From "A states came letters =.
which the writer's expressed the be-
lief that the lot of the farm women
was made unnecessarily hard because
men on the farm are thoughtless, un'
informed or stubborn about providing
measures that will better the condi'
tion Of their wives and daughters.
They call attention to the fact that
the farmer is very ready to purchase
modern field machinery to lessen his
labor, but is backward about provid,
ing domestic machinery or improve.
ments which will make the farm home
a pleasanter place of abode or a more
convenient workshop for the women
Some seem to think that the farm
animals have more attention given tC
their needs than do the women. 9th
ers complain because they never han,
die any real money; are allowed nc
freedom Of purchases and blocked
from improving the sanitary and aes
thetic quality Of their homes.
One writes from Tennessee:
"The farmers wives work too hard
But they could stand that if they re
ceived just treatment from their hus
bands, including the fruits OF labor
Another demands: q
"Put a bill before Congress to al
low a farmers wife 81 per day for
her own money, to be used by her for
her own expenses" D.,
This letter came from Colorado:
ut is far from me to criticize the
form mon. thav arc victims of the