76 



GENESEE FARMER. 



Mar. 



LADIES' DEPARTMENT. 



Farmer's Daughters. 



Dri'mmond's Patent Candle Maker. — This 

 is described in tlie New York Farmer and Me- 

 chanic, as simply a Candlestick which makes its 

 own Candles. That paper says: — " It is very in- 

 It is often remarked with some surprise, thati geniously constructed, with a reservoir of tallow, 

 farmers' daugliters seldom prefer husbands of Ifi"'' o^ similar materials for making candles, also 

 that profession ; and many farmers believe, that K^ pl^ce in the bottom for a wick, which passes 

 educating girls produces a disrelish for rural life, tiirough a tube in the center and comes in con- 

 ■ • ■ • tact with the tallow on its being forced up, and, 



Others have thought the blame with mothers, in 

 not confining them to business sufficiently to 

 make it agreeable to them, or that they had ne- 

 glected to impress them with the idea, that farm 



both going up together, form a perfect Candle, 



"ther in short or long length, as may be desired. 



The reservoir holds one-half pound of tallow. 



ers were the only men suitable for husbands.— enongh for four candles, and, when exhausted. 

 In mv humble opinion, if they would look to j m"st be refilled Mhrough an opening at the top of 

 themselves for the cause, they 'would be quite |t!ie reservoir.' The tube lias a screw cut upon 

 sure of finding it. | '^ which, being turned, carries up a follower and 



It is not education we have reason to fear, but j •'^^"'^^'^ ^"t the candle." 

 The thoroughly educated woman 



the want of it 



understands her duties and responsibilities better, 

 and is far better qualified to discharge them than 

 she otherwise could be ; neither do I believe want 

 of employment to be any part of the reason. 

 Our girls hear much sai 



PUBLISHEirS DEPARTMENT. 



Acknowledgments. 



We this month commence publishing a list 

 d of the safety of the i gQj^^,:^j,-jj,^g ^^^ names of the agents and friends 

 agricultural profession— of the almost sure inde-Lf ^i^^ Farmer who have obtained 13 subscribers, 

 pendence of the farmer; but have they ever,^^. ^^.^^.^ ^^ ^i^^ current volume. The list will 

 seen, or ever heard of inependence for the farm- kg continued in our next number ;— meantime 

 ers wife ? Do they not see that for her there is ^^.^ j^^pg ^^ receive many additions from new 

 no cessation from toil— that, as their father's lands | fi-jgnds, as well as those who have already sent 

 increase, so does their mother's cares ? | f^.^^ 5 ^q 12 subscribers each. 



They hear that their father has worked hard\^ The list gives the number of subscribers for- 

 long enough, and intends to relax from labor, i warded by each, as follows 

 and only oversee his business, without hearing it 

 even hinted that their mother could live more 

 comfortably. Though they see their father em- 

 ploy extra help when his work becomes trouble- 

 some, (which makes the mother's task still hard- 

 er,) they see no indication of her toil being ap- 

 preciated as long as she can endure it ; and if 

 help must be employed, it is not that she may 

 live easier, but because she can not do what must 

 be done. 



And when the farmer finally determines to 

 take his ease, and sells or rents his farm, he pru- 

 dently suggests to his wife the necessity (as he 

 has given up business,) of her managing in such 

 a manner as not to depend on him for funds; 

 perhaps proposes to keep an extra cow, a few 

 sheep, or something of the kind, to enable her 

 to supply herself with necessaries. Who ever 

 heard of a fanner's wife being able to live with- 

 out work, while she had the use of her feet and 

 hands 1 



There is no class of women of whom so great 

 an amount of care and labor is required, as among 

 larmers, nor where the dependence of wives is 

 more abject ; and while this is the case, it is as 

 unreasonable to expect us to advise our daughters, 

 or they to choose, to marry farmers, as it would 

 be to expect, because a woman had married a 

 drunkard, that she would advise her daughters 

 to marry drunkards also. 

 Covington, 1847. A Farmer's Wife. 



