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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 11, 1922 
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Improved Roads in Wisconsin 
I wish to say a few things in answer 
to a letter on page 10 in regard to farm¬ 
ers and hard-surfnee roads. I live in 
Waukesha County, Wisconsin, about. IS 
miles from the downtown section of Mil¬ 
waukee, Milwaukee County has finished 
paving all of its main roads with con¬ 
crete since 1912, and Waukesha County 
has started on a $3,800,000 bond program 
which call for over half the mileage in¬ 
cluded to be concrete. The farmers do 
most of their hauling to Milwaukee by 
auto or truck, if they live more than 10 
miles from the edge of town, and I do not 
think that any of them want; to go hack 
to teaming ou the road, once they make 
a trip with a light truck. We get snowed 
in for a month or two almost every Win¬ 
ter, but the county tries to keep the main 
roads open, SO the milk trucks get through 
part way at least. 
little pleasure out of reading such a 
column. Who knows wbat may be sug¬ 
gested to (Jeorge or .John that, good man 
though he be, he has never thought ol 
before? Who knows how Mary or Dora, 
reading, may find fresh cause for admir¬ 
ing her good man, and so may lie spurred 
to new efforts at showing appreciation 
through loving deeds and words? 
Now, having tried to explain in my 
poor way what, the column is for, may I 
make my first contribution? Among the 
many “nice things about my husband” 
there are four I never cease to be thank¬ 
ful for: 
1. My oilcan and woodbox are always 
full. How many steps and how much 
patience this saves! 
2. lie never scolds—nor comments at 
all—about delayed meals. When a tired 
woman is hustling at top speed, what a 
blessing this is. 
.’!. lie always takes an interest in 
housekeeping problems. I never should 
have learned to use my sewing machine 
if he had not used his vast man's patience 
and his mechanical skill to “tinker” the 
tension. 
The Home Quarleite 
We used to take a day aud a half to 
make a round trip with a team, and haul 
from GO to TO bu. of potatoes to a load. 
Now we take .TO to 00 bu. on the one-ton 
truck, and if they sell well we can leave 
home at 7 a. in. and get back at 12 with¬ 
out a load, or 1 or 2 p. m. with a load of 
coal or whatever we want to bring home. 
With a team you had to look for a place 
to feed at noon; with a truck you can 
stop anywhere and eat some lunch if the 
load sells slowly. I do not think there are 
very many farmers who want to go back 
to grandfather’s ways of travel, unless it 
is someone who kicks about high taxes. 
Iu regard to the taxes, our town tax 
will run from about $17 to $28 per 
$1,000, according to the school 'tax in the 
district. The city tax for some places 
in the county will he about $35 per 
$1,000. but their school tax is more. 
Wisconsin. C. T. GUTHRIE. 
“Nice Things About My Husband” 
If the Hope Farm man will permit it, 
I should like to suggest a regular column 
to be entitled “Nice Things About My 
Husband." It seems to me, a farmer’s 
wife, that loo many farmers’ wives are 
fault finders. It is so easy to find fault. 
Carping criticism may almost impercept¬ 
ibly become a habit. To this the mono¬ 
tony of a farm woman’s life seems to 
lend itself. (To be sure, the succession 
of day aud night, the recurring seedtime 
and harvest—all of Nature’s great pro¬ 
cesses, carry their element of monotony). 
However, it is only human after the “bur¬ 
den and heat of the day” for tired nerves 
to release self-control and voice and 
thought to become querulous and critical. 
But how everyone loves appreciation, 
and let us appreciate the glory of the 
commonplace. Do you remember Long¬ 
fellow’s dear preceptor in “Birds of 
Killingworth” who, thinking of his lady¬ 
love, said she was “as pure as water and 
as good as bread?” What better or more 
essential, pray? Let 11 s appreciate not 
only the big gifts of life, but the daily 
deeds of love and thoughtfulness that 
through the course of the year may have 
become mechanical, yet do so much to 
ease the burden of life. 
It seems to me that Mary and John 
or Heorge and Dora could get quite a 
Faces the Camera 
4. He is so patient with our baby. He’s 
never too busy to “take-take" if only for 
a moment—never too hurried to try to 
got the idea the tiny beginner is strug¬ 
gling to express. Lucky the child whose 
father bulks so large in the home. 
Well, the good things about my bus- 
band are legion. Ours is a beautiful 
home. Loss or gain of money only affect 
it physically. Nothing outside it can 
affect its atmosphere. 
I feel that. I have given but poor ex¬ 
pression to the "mighty impulse" that 
reached and towered within me. Perhaps 
if 1 am permitted to write again I shall 
do better. Now 1 should think that Mrs. 
<\ (i. Ormshce, the Pastoral Parson’s 
wife. “Mother” of Hope Farm, the .Sage¬ 
brush lady and Mrs. Unger might all 
contribute to the column. Then the 
myriad wives of good men all through 
The K. N.-Y. family should all follow- 
on. There are so many “nice things 
about my husband.” MRS. iie.nky. 
It. N.-Y.—There might be some objec¬ 
tion to such a department in the fact 
that some women have no husband. If 
we gave them a full chance to praise 
father or brother we fear tln re would be 
an overdose of sweetness. It is a com¬ 
mon saying that a woman will usually 
do far more for her brother than she will 
for her husband — and the lazier the 
brother the more she will do. That is 
not always true, but there is something 
to’ it. We think there are many women 
who undertake to manage their husbands 
as they would large boys in school. 
Many of those who do this are old school¬ 
teachers. Sometimes they succeed aud 
sometimes they do not. At any rate, if 
the husband is “guilty” of doing nice 
things it should do no harm to tell 
about it. 
Page 954, under “Brevities,” “One of 
our readers has an overcoat bought 2(1 
years ago." I have the goods to prove 
that I can go that render at least one 
better. In December, 1892. I was work¬ 
ing in Provineetown. Cape Cod, Mass., 
and occasionally went tip to Portland, 
Me., and, wanting to be well dressed, went 
into a tailor's shop and bad my measure 
taken for an overcoat. “When there is 
a lady in the ease all tilings-" Well. 
never mind the rest. The overcoat was 
and is 11 brown kersey, the collar is some¬ 
what soiled, the buttons need to be re¬ 
covered. the buttonholes are somewhat 
worn ; otherwise it is a nice-looking and 
good-fitting coot today. And I do not live 
in Southern Florida, but (until th,. last 
few years) up at Moosehead Luke, Me., 
and I am thinking if I step out soon it 
will make my grandson a good suit of 
clothes, or with a few more years (to 
let him grow in) a serviceable overcoat. 
Maine. F. M. 8. 
