The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1921-04-28
WOMAN WORKERS
ON THE FARM
A MESSAGE DIRECT TO YOU,
MIR. FARMER
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woman workers, particularly u i'm
INJURED farm house servitors,
Eyes, Mr.. Farmer, you may listen
in" Not that eavesdroppers are said
to hear any good of themselves, but
the hour has struck, and the platform
of "Woman's Rights" now receiving
widespread recognition, must be lifted
up. Even on that much maligned in
stitution known as the farm, which
likewise is the very buttress of ma
ltions, and the mainstay of our coun-
try's farfamed prosperity; the goth
century woman will soon cease to be
the drudge for she will come into her
own the undisputed ruler of her
world. Besides, we just know that you
Mr.. Farmer, are as interested in the
improvements of the farm house as
you can be, and these we shall pres
emily discuss.)
AS is well known, woman's claims
for generations past have been practi-
cally ignored or refuted by many.
What opportunity, therefore, has she
had to keep abreast the times and
raise her standard above the trailing
dust beneath her feet? Yet hers is the
divine right, like any e%pthroned queen,
to develop and employ her latent ia
Tents to their utmost capacity, and to
this end a goodly portion of free day
light time should be hers-to live"
as Pollyanna expressed it-meaning
a daily respite from excessive physical
toll for the souls refreshment and
progress.
Our leaders seem not have reckoned
with this indisputable fact that 'hu-
mans are three-fold beings: Spirit,
soul Tor intellect), and body, conse-
auently the deep unrest of today is but
the far cry of each immortal seeking
his own Men have yet to learn that
wives and hirelings, alike, require
plenty of wholesome spurious nutri-
ment. That merely to hand u the
monthly pay check or cater to bodily
needs alone, is not enough. The cal
loused toilers Of either sex, filled with
unsatisfied longings, become breeders
of discomfort, disseminating discord,
which is a foe to efficient service. Sou
hunger, thus begotten, far our-rivals
any induced by physical lack, and this
craving of the impellent inner forces,
unless appeased. causes the starved
impulses TO vibrate to and fro twixt
~unfathomable depths and heights un-
known in their cogent seeking after
things finer and higher the attainment
of which, to them, bespeaks happiness.
somewhere round twenty miles from
a certain town lives a farmer who Is
Tor was) seeking a hired man. But, he
explicitly stated, never would he allow
his help the use of either a horse, or
auto, for an occasional trip to town.
Shut away thus, from all intercourse
with his fellows, what incentive has
any one to labor?) Ye householders
and task-masters. What about these
careworn workers whose wearisome
days lengthen slowly into years of irk-
some %drudgery, leaving never a hint
i'm their wake of the beauties and un-
rufled calm of Lies eternal source
and destiny. Less of toll n larger
living is the Mecca of the race. Speak
ing figuratively, it is the deifc privi-
lege of the humbliest %plebeian, (f SO
he wilis,) to ascend on the wings OF
the morning" to the glorified summit
of TRANSPORTATION Mt Life on the
farm, with its alluring adjuncts and
~far-reaching v~istas, should be ike
some beautiful dream, the abode OF
harmony; with the proverbial morn
of plenty" everywhere in evidence,
and peopled with radiantly happy sup
er-women and men.
Now, the initial step in any contem-
plated reform is to have a clear mental
picture of whatever n wishes reailz-
ed. This power to see in imagination
a completed thing, and then later on 70
produce it, is the gift of the gods.
Visualize over and over each small de-
tail of the home or of the entire place,
as you would wish it to appear in actu-
al fact, then hold lrmly to the highest
ideal thus formed and move steadily
onward towards that goal. Mankin
does nothing with its hands that IS
not first out-pictured in the mental
realm, and correspondingly, ones sur
roundings never rise higher than ones
ideals.
Progressive thinking, planning and
doing, will eventually conquer obsta-
cles and reveal to all a practical ideal
ism. The home, with its intricate
workings, is the very nucleus OF the
farm and the improvements therein
should keep pace with those made
outside. Then, too, women want ant
must have the equipments which pro
perIy belong to this period, just as thu
up-to-date farmer demands and GETS
the machinery and ct cetera whlcf
conserves his time and manual labor
The truth Is that woman's work aloni
/, these lines may be SO allotted and me
thodically arranged as to become
delight instead of the crushing burden
lit usually is under the present regime
But many idols must be broken befor'
this coveted project can be attained
I First, a square deal" must be hande'
, to rural women, the foundation there
{ of securely resting upon an efficlen
basic system of action. Establishe'
customs appear to have a death gri
. upon our throats and so are not cas-
lily placed in the discard. AS, for ex
ample, on many farms, even In thi
enlightened age, the women are stiI
required to gather and haul the house
: hold fuel, which all to frequently con
} sists OF "cobs." or "cobs" as a fut
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