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a tiny hand can do, if there is the disposition, and if I were a 

 young farmer, I would never have it to think of, that I had not 

 tried at least, to make a wife of that young lady. From just such 

 farmers' daughters as that have sprung the great men of this coun- 

 try, and such will help, advise, and economize, and be true help- 

 meets all their days. We have many nohle women that are true, 

 sensible, and eloquent; look at the language of Lady Garfield, the 

 impromptu speech that she made to those surgeons when told 

 that her husband must die. "Gentlemen, you shall not give him 

 up; he is not going to die, he is going to live; I feel it, I know 

 it ; go back to your post, every one of you ; leave it not until 

 every remedy is exhausted ; until death itself has set its seal upon 

 him. For 1 will not believe that he is dying. Go back and do 

 what you can, you cannot do more. But don't give up. I am 

 his wife, and I say that we will not give up until the end itself 

 is upon us." 



Now, here is the eloquence of a Saint Paul, without a moment's 

 warning, and if Lady Garfield's boys do not make a mark in this 

 world, I shall wonder, for it is from just such mothers as that who 

 have given our great men their minds, and instilled into them 

 their own love and purity, and everything that is good and noble, 

 and just, that makes a man. And on the young ladies of this gen- 

 ration, hangs the destiny of our future great men. 



But before I close, I will say a few words to our young men. 

 Now, my young friends, there are a great many young lady Gar- 

 fields in this country, from anaong them choose ye; the ball room is 

 a poor place to choose a wife, it has caused many a sad regret in 

 after life, that could have been avoided by a little patient waiting, 

 and a good deal of reflection and consideration; choose as our 

 grandfathers did, of those in the neighborhood, whom they had 

 a chance to know best. 



But by all means choose some one. as soon as you are twenty-one, 

 and before we get a law that the old bachelors shall support all 

 the old maids. 



By all means buy a home first, and then settle down in life 

 young, you will make the best husbands and wives, the best neigh- 

 bors and citizens. 



But as this is simply farm life, and the programme has set me up 

 to tell the whole world how farming should be, I will close by 

 making a few appeals to farmers as they should be. Now the best 

 farmers are usually those that are filled with agriculture, knit into 



