The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 12, Number 48, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 25 March 1920 — Page 7

* ' k” ♦ « * * * ONLY A FARMER’S * * WIFE * * * * By P. S. Nielsen * *♦*.♦* * * * * * * In the city of Chicago, on Randolph street, east of Halstead street, at what is known as the Randolph street market, one can in the early summer and late autumn see hundreds of farmers and farm women in the early morning bringing in their wagon loads of garden truck and products from the fields, from suburbs of the city, and from towns as far as twenty-four miles distant. On one such morning, some time ago, I had occasion to walk past the line of teams and wagons ranged up at the street curb. It was about six o’clock. The buyers had already gathered in large number and lively trading was in progress. Two elegantly dressed, beau- ' tiful young ladies passed by, and one of them remarked to her companion as they walked: “Look at that woman in the high seat of that wagon.” Her companion responded. “Oh, pshaw! she is only a 1 farmer’s wife.” Only a farmer’s wife, indeed! I could not readily forget the incident and it certainly made me think. Here were two handsome young women, with beaming faces in the glow of youth, attired in silk costumes fashioned by the highest style of the dressmaker’s art, costly hats coquetishly covering the black tresses. There were beauty, refinement, style and—pride. Sitting on that high seat of the wagon, which was loaded with onions, tomatoes, sweet corn and a number of other garden productss, was a comely looking, matronly woman. She wore a muslin shawl thrown over her head and shoulders, a dress of coarse material in simple make-up, and a short coat of inexpensive materials. She was only a farmer’s wife. Here were no style, no refinement, measured by city standards, and no pride. If dressbdl in city fashion, she could, as far as beauty goes, have fully measured up. When the Lord had tried Adam in the garden of Eden, to live the life of a bachelor, and found him incapable of taking care of himself, the Lord decided to give him a helper. The great work o creation had been completed and all was found perfect, and the Lord saw nothing that could be improved upon except Adam —poor Adam was helplessly alone and could not take care of himself. Adam of today is just as helpless alone. The Lord then created woman, the crown of the handicraft, the glory of all creation. The Lord endowed her with beauty, intelligence and love superior' to man. And “woman’s beauty, intelligence and love have continued superior down past the ages, are today superior, and will be tell Father Time winds up his clock on the last day for the last time. Why, then, is the woman on the farm inferior to her city sister? Has she got the same faculties of mental power, intelligence and love as her city sister? Yes, she has; but unfortunately in the past she has lived in inferior conditions, and her city sister does not take into consideration the sacrifices that the pioneer farmre and his wife have borne to make it possible to build the city and the city comfort and progress. “ . wife, who stood steadfastly by him, opened the western praisies or th efuture generations; they endured hardships that the present generation could live in comfort. They broke the trail for the iron horse to follow and

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leave a black streak of smoke from his nostrils. Tne pioneer farmer and his wife built the foundation for the cities of today, and they did it ungrudging, self-sacrificing, with the hope that future generations would benefit by the culture and progress which themselves could not reach. Then why does the city woman look with disrepect • upon her farmer sister? Why the sneer, “Only a farmer’s wife”? The city sister is feeling more advanced. She has the city improvements; her w r hite enameled bath room, with white enameled fixtures, hot and cold water, with gas and'electric lights in the house, with music and piano, with schools and colleges close by for the children, with amusements and pleasures—all of which the farmer’s wife has not been able to have. So the city sister feels that she has advantages over the I farmer’s wife, and she feels proud of the fact. She considers arm lie one of drudg-ery and devoid of pleasures. But time changes also on the farm. City improvements are not any longer on the modern farnb and farms are being modernized very rapidly. While the farmer can not move the farm to the city, he can move the city to his farm, and is doing so. AH the essentail comforts of the city home are now being installed in the farm house. Electric buttons are being pushed for light and power; engines are, puffing continually for the labor requirements; automobiles are .'as common as in the city. greater reforms are taking place on the farms The descendant of the pioneer is holding onto the prairie and the valley, and his intends to do some work of more than local interest before long. City men and women of today are shaking in their bqots when they hear the farmer say: “I am. not gointr to dotwo men’k work-alone this vear, raise food for the city loafer and the union striker,’’/ ..-J . The farmer and his wife hald

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PARAGRAPHIC BITS ABOUT jOME FOLKS Notes of the Week on the Coming and Going of People You Know. Mr. Atz of Decatur is visiting his daughter, Mrs. L. A. Seider. Mrs. Madge Hughes and little son of Nappanee spent the week enfi with her parents, Mr. and Miss. Sidney Sloan. M. M. Smith left last week for New York City on business. While there he has been visiting with Miss Phylils Miles at the Bellevue hospit.il. Mrs. Joe Rapp, ar,d Mrs. L. A. Seider spent Friday in Warsaw. Fred Little of Warsaw spent a few days here with friends. Mrs. Samuel Smith spent Monday in Goshen with her daughter, Mrs. J. B. Hoffman. Mrs. Jud Searfoss, Mrs. Verne Cory and C. M. Troup were in Goshen Monday.

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In the current events race, aeronautics and bird migration seem to be ahead, with the thrift garden a close second and the 1920 baseball season not so very far in the rear. The old Snavely building in Huntington street, occupied by Arthur Snavely for the past few years as a shoe repair shop, is being razed this week. If old lumber could talk, no doubt that old pile of boards could tell a very humanly interesting story of the “good old days” (?) that were. ■ o Use for Broken Glass. There is a use even for broken glass. Some of it Is ground Into tine powderlike particles and used for various purposes. Some is melted and made Into new glass objects. — Ancients Mad* Bricks to Last. In the British museum are bricks taken from the buildings in Nineveh and Babylon, which show no signs of decay or disintegration, although the ancients did not burn or bake them, but dried them in the sun.

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