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Woman's work on the farm has its share of drudgery, but 

 what work for woman or man is without its share of drudgery 

 in some form ? There is no need of it being all drudgery. If 

 the road does wind up hill all the way there are and ought to be 

 pleasant resting places — farming has many advantages for 

 woman as well as man. There is no life on earth so independ- 

 ent, so filled with pure, mutual interests and pure pleasure as life 

 on the farm, if made for both women and men what it ought to 

 be and what it might be. 



Music — -Male quartette. 



Mr. Jonathan Periam, Editor Farm, Field and Stockman, 

 Chicago: 



Ladies aud Gentlemen — I am altogether unprepared to talk 

 to you, and had no idea of being called upon, and really do not 

 know what to talk about, after listening to the elaborate essay 

 you have heard to-night. I confess to have been interested in 

 the lecture by the lady to whom you have just listened. Your 

 president, to put me at ease, perhaps, kindly informed you that 

 I was always ready; but I am altogether unready to follow 

 extemporaneously in the happy vein of those who have preceded 

 me. I am a woman's rights man myself, and was particularly 

 interested in that speech, but woman has her sphere and man 

 his. I did feel that I would like to correct the preceding address 

 in one respect, and that is, that I believe that one man is the 

 equal of another and woman of another in their own sphere. 

 Any man is equal to any woman, each in their respective sphere, 

 and all good human people are honorably good. Not that I 

 believe what Thomas Jefferson said, that all men are born free 

 and equal; they are not, but all men and all women are born 

 with the privilege alike of doing just whatever they may be 

 able to accomplish in their peculiar spheres in life. Now, I am 

 quite certain that for over thirty years my good wife has man- 

 aged me, not only every day, but every hour, and I glory in it. 

 I believe in woman's sphere. Every woman, whether she does 



