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thing,” holding for herself and her chil¬ 
dren the earnings of the first wife. 
Talk about “taxation without repre¬ 
sentation !” That is nothing in compari¬ 
son with some of the wrongs these wives 
and their children suffer. Talk about 
strikes who demand 10 hours’ pay for 
eight hours’ work! They don’t know 
anything about work. What if mothers 
and housekeepers should strike? These 
women who work 14, 16, yes, 18 hours a 
day simply for their board and clothes, 
and such small change as is all too grudg¬ 
ingly given? My heart aches for these 
poor “white slaves,” who seem so friend¬ 
less ! Cannot some one see to it that our 
laws protect a woman’s and her children’s 
interest in property that she has helped to 
accumulate at so great cost? 
HIGHLANDER. 
Another View of the Matter. 
Mrs. J. G.’s article on page 301 has 
aroused some indignant protests from 
some of our farmer sisters, but it seems 
to me that only one side of the subject 
was considered by those whose com¬ 
ments are printed on page 409. Now, I 
am willing to grant that Mrs. J. G. did 
put in a busy day, but was it any busier 
than that of her critic, Mrs. Corbett, judg¬ 
ing Mrs. Corbett’s article? Also, did not 
Mrs. J. G. have the advantage of the 
other in having part of her work out of 
doors? As I read what Mrs. J. G. wrote, 
it did not strike me that she is at all a 
“drudge,” but quite the opposite. She 
has help about her housework, as she says 
her sister lives with her, and also she 
says nothing about children in the home, 
while Mrs. Corbett has a baby to care 
for. Do you not suppose that the care of 
that one little baby occupies fully as much 
time as Mrs. J. G. puts in milking her 
cows. Besides, it takes only physical 
strength to milk cows, but none but a 
mother can tell how much nervous force 
must be added to this to care for an in¬ 
fant. Of course rearing children is much 
more exalted work than milking cows, 
but that is another matter. We are sim¬ 
ply comparing the labor required. Then 
it seems to me that the milk dishes that 
Mrs. Corbett has to cleanse must be many 
more than those of Mrs. J. G., as it takes 
very many where milk is peddled. “Vir¬ 
ginia” tells us nothing about her work, 
but she evidently does not think that a 
woman should have the privilege of help¬ 
ing her husband. Does she think it better 
to sit with folded hands or gossip with 
one’s neighbors? I say that where there 
is time and strength a true wife would 
rather be using them for some useful 
purpose, even though it should be in the 
hayfield. Of course every woman ought 
to understand herself, and not go beyond 
her strength, as that continued will surely 
ruin one’s health, but this idea that any 
woman cannot work outdoors, or if she 
does it makes a “slave” of her, is simply 
nonsensical. Mrs. J. G. is probably a 
healthy, happy, capable woman, and the 
busy life she leads conduces to these con¬ 
ditions. Speaking from my own experi¬ 
ence, I have been a farmer’s wife for 20 
years, am the mother of five dear children, 
and am now, and usually have been, in 
perfect health, and as happy as any wo¬ 
man that walks. Furthermore, it has 
never hurt me to assist about the milking 
or in the hayfield when it was necessary, 
and I could do so; on the contrary I al¬ 
ways enjoyed it. “Virginia” seems to 
think that men do not appreciate such 
help, but my husband regards it as a 
favor, and there are smiles, kind words 
and kisses of greeting and good-bye when 
he returns to or leaves the house. These, 
with a fair share of the income, leave 
no more to be desired by 
ONE FARMER’S WIFE. 
For the Stay-at-Home. 
Is there a community free from the 
women who stay at home year in and year 
out and who pride themselves on doing 
so? I think we can all call to remem¬ 
brance sallow creatures who say, /‘My 
husband and family can never say I neg¬ 
lected them when I’m dead and gone. 
Nobody ever sees me gadding about ex¬ 
cept now and then to funerals.” One wo¬ 
man in our neighborhood made it a point 
to wash three times a week because the 
accumulation of soiled clothes was un¬ 
healthy in her opinion. It never dawned 
on her to put the hamper in the wood- 
house if she feared dire results from al¬ 
lowing clothes to lie unwashed an entire 
week, but grew to regard the extra tasks' 
as a sort of religious duty she owed to her 
family. In spite of the fact that all the 
children had clean garments twice as 
often as their playmates, none of them 
“set the river on fire,” one old lady ex¬ 
pressed it, when they grew up. As early 
as possible they left home for more con¬ 
genial places, and no one was surprised 
at this but the mother, who wept and 
wailed because she had spent her life try¬ 
ing to “do for them,” and then they were 
ungrateful. 
If you haven’t already found out this 
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fact, let me whisper to you that your 
family will appreciate you all the more if 
you don’t make a slave' of yourself for 
them. It does them good occasionally to 
miss your care, and more mothers would 
have an easier time if they once in a while 
thought of self and let “aim and the chil¬ 
dren” get along as best they may for a 
day at least. I wish the good old fashion 
of visiting had not died out years ago. 
Fven women in the country are making 
fashionable calls instead of rolling up some 
work in a clean apron and spending the 
day with a neighbor. Send the children to 
school and set out a cold lunch for the 
man of the house when you want to go 
away for the day. He will be in trim to 
enjoy a nice hot supper, and you will 
think there is no place like home when 
you get back. A good way to take a day’s 
outing is to start out shopping early in the 
morning, have dinner in town, and re¬ 
turn to the farm before the children get 
home from school. Men like to attend to 
various duties in town, too, and in that 
way both husband and wite can accom¬ 
plish much. It is not necessary to keep 
together all day, but a meeting place may 
be arranged at the rest room, if your 
town affords such a place, or a restaurant 
where the adventures of the morning may 
be talked over. By having a list and do¬ 
ing systematic work much may be accom¬ 
plished. It is even possible for women to 
attend bargain sales, since the daily paper 
is delivered by the rural carrier, and, in 
spite of the jokes about women being 
bargain hunters, they do pick up good 
things once in a while for little money. 
A country woman who has time for 
church and Sunday school and who also 
does a moderate amount of visiting and 
entertaining, looks 10 years younger than 
her younger sister, because the latter sel¬ 
dom gets a breath of fresh air. While 
the former is comfortable in ready-made 
wrappers for morning wear her sister 
laboriously makes her own house dresses 
because it looks “shiftless” not to. The 
stay-at-home woman will not teach in the 
Sunday school because she can not get 
her work done early enough, but her sis¬ 
ter cheerfully lets the beds wait till after 
dinner, if necessary, in order to go with 
her children. 
Then, too, the woman who seldom or 
never leaves home is apt to be ill-tem¬ 
pered and cross for the very good reason 
that she does not exercise enough out¬ 
doors. I know we often read of the pa¬ 
tience and sweetness of invalids, but I 
never knew an angelic woman who volun¬ 
tarily shut herself up in the house. They 
usually are narrow-minded and unchari¬ 
table, thinking every other woman neglects 
her duties if she has sense enough to ab¬ 
sent herself from home once in a while. 
VVe may not be able to spend our 
Winters in the South and our Sum¬ 
mers at some fashionable resort, but let 
us not stay at home forever on that ac¬ 
count. Take advantage of your oppor¬ 
tunities and more will surely come. Never 
allow a week to pass even in the coldest 
weather, without some sort of exercise 
in the open air, and you will scarcely need 
something to “build you up” in the Spring. 
For your own sake, and the sake of your 
family, don’t make a “shut-in” of your¬ 
self when it is not necessary. 
HILDA RICHMOND. 
The Bookshelf. 
Periodicals devoted to women’s inter¬ 
ests are always a good investment for the 
housewife, not only for the practical teach¬ 
ing they contain, but also for their widen¬ 
ing effect on the mental horizon. 
Woman’s Home Companion— This 
is a valued visitor which increases in in¬ 
terest from year to year. Its literary fea¬ 
tures are excellent, and it always contains 
some bright fiction. Sewing, cooking and 
domestic emergencies are fully treated; 
we have been especially pleased during the 
past few months with the articles on 
French cooking by Berthe Julienne Low. 
They will teach any cook to get the most 
savory results from simple materials. 
The Home Science Magazine. —We 
have often quoted from this paper, both 
under its present name and its former 
title of the American Kitchen Magazine. 
Its scope is widened by the Absorption of 
Trained Motherhood, formerly a sepa¬ 
rate publication, but it still makes culin¬ 
ary science its strongest feature, and is al¬ 
ways helpful and inspiring. 
Harper’s Bazar. —This is such a well- 
known periodical that it needs no intro¬ 
duction, and it is needless to say that its 
high standard is still upheld. Its illustra¬ 
tions are always of exceptional interest, 
and it will give many ideas to isolated 
women who would like to be in closer 
touch with the great world. Its leading 
fiction this year, “The Masqueraders,” 
seems to us the strongest serial now run¬ 
ning in any American periodical, with the 
possible exception of Mrs. Humphry 
Ward’s new novel in Harper’s Magazine. 
All these publications mentioned may be 
obtained in clubs with The R. N.-Y. 
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Although the Eton and bolero jackets 
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like the collarless model shown, are seen 
in the advance models, and are likely to 
be very fashionable. The coat is made 
with fronts, side-fronts, backs, side-backs 
and under-arm gores and is finished with 
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The nine-gored skirts are always be- • 
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