The Monroe journal. [volume] (Monroe, N.C.) 189?-1965, 1921-05-10

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For minute the German looked
puzzled. then broad smile spread
over ms countenance.
say. dots joke on you all right,
dots ny wife" he said.
The only man about some critters
is that they walk on two feet. wear
store clothes and vote. But he i
not husband. for he Is not man.
Ii takes more than l50 pounds OF
flesh and bone TO make man.
A man out IN Western Kansas came
into 4 farm-implement house m i
little town To buy tractor cultiNatOr.
In showing him round the dealer
I stopped ia front OF "A washinc ma-
chine made especially for the farm
home one Of the kind which the
I wife dumps The dirty clothes. tun
down into the cellar and turns on =
I switch. aud then sits down To rest
her weary homes while the machine
does the biz family washins a great
deal better than she could ever hope
20 do il
.You ought 10 have one of those
machines aut az yenr house. the
dealer said
No. guess W. daa1 uecd that =
the farmer said
WHY. who does snur WasAlue
My wife does ID. %. course
For YOU and the lauy boys ant
,lc higcd mau,
"Nes. she does il
WHY donl sou hus one ~ these
ana Hghten her work "a little
"She doesn't need ueEfansled
conlraption hkc that, she makes ont
well enough a, ii is.
SAY. Jim. hos m2W motor ears
have you cot ont there on !orr
farm?
wei. lila said. as he scratched
his head. we've got the iliyYer and
the biz car and the motor truck.
yes. You'll spend a thousand dol
lars for ear 70 get yourself round
in. and YOU leave Your wife to wear
her fingers to the bone on a wash
board
But | need those cars in my farm
ins operations the farmer insisted.
III you need machines in your
farming operations. your wife needs
machines IN her household opera
lions. it's all on the farm. Is II not
ISM the work on your home as lm-
portant as the work round the barn
But you'll have patent forks TO MI
your hay. and manure spreaders to
save YOU work in putting the manure
on the land. and all those labor-SaN-
ihg devices You call a washing ma
chine new tangled contraption ana
are content for your vile 10 break
her back over a dashboard that IS
rs old As the hills. Why don't you /
plow with forked stick? why don I
Won haul your stuff to town in two /
wheeled cart with oxen? Now look /
here. YOU might just as well use those I
old-lashioned devices as to ask your +
wife to be manicuring her fingers on +
a washboard while you are riding i
sulky pillow.
Il never thought of il in thai way .
before said Jim.
"Of course YOU didn't When Shall
send out the washer? Cash or on .
time?"
send her out right OFF the reel
and here's the money to pay tor H. +
don't believe | could preach +
better sermon than 10 say to every
farmer in America: Get rid OF Blue
Monday this summer.
Don't you know that washing WIN /.
a tub and board is such hard work
and is dreaded so by the women OF
this country that by common con
sent, from the Atlantic to the faclhc,
the women have named washday Blue
Monday
oh" you say. she doesn't com
plain about IT,
Ma. of course she doesn't She
doesn't complain about anything She
does all the drudgery without COM
planning because nineteenth of the
farm wives Of this country think they
have TO do it just that way They
think its their duty 10 do II ana
not complain. And you're so busy
running the farm. balled up in poll
tics. lodge and other things, you've
no time 10 think how hard your wife
works and that the wrinkles are com
inn INTO her face and the crows feet
beneath her eyes.
Say. YOU. Mister Farmer as yol
sit BY the light of the old coai-oil
lamp reading this, YOU lower the page
a minute and take a squint across
is top at your wife sitting opposite
Won. darning pair OF your old SOCKS
Or as she moves YEARLY round clear
ing up the supper things. My! look
Al how she has failed since the day
YOU stood up with her before the
and promised to love. honor
and cherish her throuGn sickness ana
health and hard times and good. LOOK
Al the care lines in her cheeks; those
are love sears made for YOU: and YOU
pass her up and seldom give her 4
kind word.
Get up, right now, this minute. 20
10 her. put your arms round her, the
way YOU used to do when you was
rourting her and feeding her gum
drops and candy hearts with ! love
YOU printed on them in red INK. say
10 her:
sweetheart, YOU are tired. You
are working TOO hard. The Washing
Is toe eavy for you. what DO you
say I, We get one OF those new
tangled washing machines! Inc!
say they are great.
Look out. she may faint; it's been
40 long since you talked TO her Ike
that. But you 90 to II. She'll say
"oh. we can't afford that. JUST