ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 7 1 



Men and women in any and every honest vocation who 

 possess intelligent educated minds, whose manners arise from 

 kindly, honest hearts, and who perform their work cheerfully, 

 faithfully and skillfully, they are the class that, as yet, America 

 acknowledges as her nobility. There is much room for im- 

 provement in the comforts for women in our country homes. 



Women have no right to be without conveniences in the 

 house that save time, strength and money, any more than men 

 have for their work out of doors. We blame the women mostly 

 for the lack of indoor conveniences. Most women are not 

 born mechanics. They do not like to trouble themselves with 

 machinery. We learn to do things a certain way, and we 

 keep at it to the end in just that same way. There is so 

 much to be done and just so much time in which to do it, 

 that we can't take time to learn any shorter and easier way. 

 Two-thirds of our women would rather bend over the tub, rub- 

 bing the very much soiled clothing, which farm work neces- 

 sarily makes, in a most heartbreaking and backbreaking 

 way, than bother with a washing machine; and we have 

 washing machines that are great helps, even if they do not do 

 away with all the work, as the agents sometimes claim they 

 will. This, if she can afford it, a woman has no right to do; 

 she owes it to herself and her country to make all work as 

 light as possible for herself and those about her. We do not 

 work for the sake of working, but for a purpose, and the easier 

 we can gain this the better. 



He is a wretched sort of a man that will begrudge his wife 

 a washingmachine or any other labor-saving machine or con- 

 venience as long as he supplies himself with farm machinery 

 and has a dollar in the bank. That man ought to be obliged to 

 keep the weeds down in a 40 acre corn field with an old rusty 

 hoe. 



And then a woman on the farm, or any where else, wto 

 does not supply her kitchen with conveniences simply because 

 she hires a girl to do her work, that woman is a most wretchedly 



