People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — A Jasper County Jewel. [ARTICLE]

A Jasper County Jewel.

To Ihe Editor of The People’s Pilot: Rensselaer, Ind., Aug. 5. 1K95. : —Your last issue contained a clipping from the Remington Press whicn says the farmers’ wives of Cass and Miami counties have voted to abolish the “old fashioned threshing dinner.” They have each man eat his breakfast and supper at home. His dinner he can bring with him or do without. This, too, we suppose, is one of the changes the “new woman” is bringing about. What men are more deserving of good dinners than they who raise, harvest and thresh the grain that makes our bread? In the threshing season comes our .longest, hottest days; no work upon the farm is more rushing, harder or more disagreeable than threshing, and yet the good(?) housewives of Cass and Miami Would have ‘heir husbands, sons and neighbors work six hours at it and then have then like a hungry, stray hog with a stolen nubbin hump up* in the fence corner over a little tin pail of cold hash. Who are these threshers that they are so greatly dreaded? In this county they are our own people, our own neighborsand relatives, and 1 think I voice the sentiment of the farmers’ wives of this section when I say that no dinner is more freely given by them than the “old fashioned threshing dinner.” While the threshing is progressingin Cass and Miami are the housewives then astride their wheels visiting distant towns —gadding and gossiping about the country? In fact, what great work are they really engaged in that they cannot get a little dinner one day for a few 7 tired, hungry men? When women get too nice or too lazy to give threshers one or two meals a year we think they had best leave the farm. Our mothers used to cook these tn reshing dinners in little, close kitchens over hot stoves, set their tables in close, hampered rooms and made.no complaints about it. Now’ our buildings are spacious; the hot stove is supplanted by the gasoline: a thousand and one little conveniences we have that our mothers knew not of. Yet we w’ill send the threshers to the grubs and fence corners to eat their dinners. The threshing dinner is not abolished in Jasper. We are willing to do our part in trying to help along with this, the hardest and most disagree-able-work our husbands, fathers, brothers, sons and neighbor men have to do on the farm.

A FARNER'S WIFE.