Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-19

Life on the Farm Will Nsvsr Dc One
Glad, Sweet Song Until Labor.
Saving Devices Are Installed
In the Kitchen
BY SARAH d. LOWR1E
MOTHER whom I know was boas

into trouble he could be cured or defended
for nothing or at least for half price.
into By another mother whose son is an
"Why wait for trouble to call in your
;sSns,. sOn;r ~ vas her text. MY son saves Us
And, indeed, when one looks over the acre
and half that son and mother have out on
the Main Line just of the pike and sees
what can be done In the way of labor saving
and Of luxury making BY turning little
stream OF water and fall Of ground OF
about fifty feet to account, the stocks Of the
products are certainly dividends that are
BY piping IL; spring into two inch pip.
and carrying the pipe down the slope into
q. m SRsn. .uiss through the CHICKEN t.. ys.s
on tap. A few feet below the chicken yard
the water turns little water wheel, which
in ite turn sets going a small dynamo about
a. big as q bread -brimmed Quaker hat.
to light ten lights ip the house--one to each
room: II. also runs washing. machine and
supplies the necessary power for the radio.
This last was installed by the owner Of
the house, who made all the outfit except
the two receiving boxes and the horn shaped
tributes the sounds, 80 that the speeches and
music, etc., which come on the programs
can be heard by any one in the living room.
The other thing the dynamo does is to sup.
ply the batteries Of the owners car when
they are down. MI.
THE original outlay for wheels, dynamo,
L wiring and lights came to about 500:
the skill that the owner put to the use Of the
plant represented In days labor probably
The thing that struck me as l listened
was that what that man had done for pas.
time on his little place near town, where
public electricity and nearby amusements
and more or less easy domestic service are
get. t.at. .able-what he had done could be
multiplied in such plants as his indefinitely
all over the country. not for the suburbanite
N1HEN you get right down to what's the
w matter with the farm, it is the farmers
wife that is the matter! A lot Of perfectly
good reasonable women won't be farmers
wives. and prefer to come to town and live
In few rooms and keep dodgers In the rest
Of the house. or run little shop, or help"
on farm where they have to cook for lot
Of farm hands who grumble. in a kitchen
with no conveniences and poor lighting night
or day. and where besides the cooking and
the housework and the sewing, they have
the chicken yard and the milk pals and the
vegetable garden--such as It is--to take
care Of. not to mention the butter to make
all BY hand.
And always steps-down two steps to the
back porch with the pump, down ten wind.
bedrooms, out three steps to the wood shed
and wash bench. and across the yard with
the ashes. And it Is always lifting-water
from the pump, coal for the stove, ashes
from the Crate, ice from the ice house, wet
clothes from the tubs on to the line, dry
clOthpa h0Ck tha irOnin1 hnnrd cloan
clothes up in the basket.
And it is always clearing up-aftcr a
meal after baking, after washing, after the
day Is over and then upstairs after the night
on the farm that there was when she began,
and the children oil gone their ways to
marry or to work In the towns just when
they have reached an age when they could
be help and company.
T DO not say that electrical contrivances
i will be all that farmers wives may need to
fully comfortable, but the kind of working
apparatus a we'll to do city woman takes
for granted in her housekeeping equipment
Is the right Of the farmer s wife. and should
come before the other up.to date implements
Of the farmers business as the initial part
Of the farms equipment. 1t is all well
enough TO say any woman ought to be glad
to wait for her kitchen to be right until the
barn Is right, but as she Is flesh and blood
1t Is not a good business proposition to use
her up by unnecessary labor when the whole
commissarial department. as well as much
else. depends upon her. And whether she
wants to be q drudge or not, she has to be
a drudge unless her kitchen is made to save
her all unnecessary labor. And the time has
about come when unless woman Is q kind
Of moron she will not be drudge on farm,
II she can live with modest comfort else
where.
And what is true of the farmers wife is
doubly, trebly true OF his daughter. Unless
her father can pay her what he would pay
hall. monthly cash basis, and give her her
weekly holiday as he would q servant, why
should she stay, when she can earn more
money with less work In town and help the
tan!y,s family BY present now and then into the
What is true of the daughters is also true
of the sons. They must either have wages,
or a part Of the farm to work for them.
selves without hindrance from the old
man.
LII this is not selfshness, 1t is common
"A sense. The farm is not going to make
a living for all the children after "the old
man" dies, that is, If the sons marry and
have children. Some Of the birds will have
to get out or be pushed ,.5 Glt. II the ones
new start will be easy; II they have not, to
start ut all may be hard so while one Is
young and venturesome 1t is better to make
new place for oneself.
And what is true Of the sons is true OF
the farm laborers who live In laborers'
houses on the place, generally as poor
houses for wives to work In as can be found
anywhere in the land.
have talked to scores of them. many of
their wives. In a game where you barely
come ont even by doing without most thinoa