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dirt and he went at it good naturedly. They are usually willing to 

 take my suggestions and let ine have my own way. 



Q. Do yon like your Avork outside more than you would the inside 

 work? 



A. I enjoy the work very much. There are many times when it 

 exhausts me, but this is my fault. 



Member: I am not exactly a farmer's wife but I think on that 

 account my observations have been on the two sides of the question in 

 a less prejudiced way. I have thought a great deal about life in the 

 city and life in the country. I would not give up my life in the 

 country for anything in the world because we can get so much more 

 out of life than we can in the city. I think if men and women could 

 realize that money is not all, but it is the things that we bring out of 

 ourselves that count, there would be much more happiness and we 

 certainly can broaden and enjoy our own lives much more in the 

 country than in a city. I know that a woman's work on a farm is 

 trying, especially in the summer when the heavy work and extreme heat 

 comes on. I think it is a good plan for a woman to divide her work 

 between the inside and the outside. For a nervous woman there is 

 nothing like outdoor farm life to rest her and prepare her for the 

 next day. T think Ave ought to work less and play more and we 

 would all be happier and better. 



Mrs. Munson : The first summer or two we Avere married, T just made 

 a slave of myself and as his Avork takes him aAvay quite a good deal 

 he Avould ask me to go with him. but I thought T could not go because 

 my dishes Averen't Avashed or the dusting or something else was not 

 done. Finally, I decided to try the other plan and I found I could leave 

 my dishes and get out for a AA^hile and that the dishes Avere still there 

 Avhen I returaed, I feel that I am a great deal happier to get out and 

 leave the Avork occasionally. I think we ought to do this more and 

 get all the pleasure we can. 



Q. Is there such a thing as a co-operative laundry? 



A. I knoAV that this matter has been talked of at the Horticultural 

 Society meetings. I think it is in operation in some parts of Minne- 

 sota. 



Mrs. Taylor: I think Ave hav^e had enough good things this after- 

 noon to carry aAvay Avith us, so I Avill say a Avord or tAvo. It seems 

 to me that in comparing farm life with city life, Ave think of the hard 

 places only in the farm life. All things, all lives liaA^e their com- 

 pensation and it is up to us just what we get out of life. We must 

 eliminate some things. There are good things in our life on the farm and 

 we must decide Avhich things we Avill accept or take in our oavu lives. 

 There are many things in farm life that the city woman cannot haA-e 

 and I think sometimes in our comparisons we forget the view of com- 

 pensation. 



A Member: I lived in Chicago for forty-two years. Four years 

 ago Ave bought a faiin near Hartford. I Avould not Avant to change 

 back to the city life. As soon as we can afford it, we are going to 

 liA'e on the farm entirely. Kow we liA'e in the city during the winter 

 and on the farm during the summer but I love the farm and I think 

 farmers do not half appreciate the pleasures they have. There is 

 nothing so satisfying, so alluring as the farm. In regard to health. I was 



