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March 27, 
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Hope Farm Notes 
< -IT 7 OMAN’S RIGHTS.”—New Jer- 
YY sey voters are to have a chance 
at the suffrage question this 
Fall, and the women are beginning to 
line us up already. I got this note: 
If the Hope Farm man considers 
it a fair question, will he state how 
he intends to vote on suffrage this 
year? Does he favor it, or does he 
oppose it? 
That certainly is a fair question. I 
am very willing to answer. I favor suf¬ 
frage and shall vote for it. I am not 
asked for reasons, and it may not make 
much difference either way, but I do not 
think anyone should ever cast a ballot 
which he cannot back up with fair argu¬ 
ment and reason. 
The chief argument with me is that my 
wife and daughter would like to have me 
vote to give them this voting privilege 
and right. No, I am not what you would 
call “henpecked,” or as one old fellow 
recently put it, “woman-fooled.” These 
two women who mean much to me, are 
sensible and sound—both time and trials 
have proved that. It is a theory of 
democracy that the man of the house 
should fairly represent his household, 
both in war and in the battles of peace. 
My father was killed in the Civil War. 
My mother lived and struggled to bnng 
up five children as best she could. Who 
will tell me that father was the better 
patriot of the two? Who will say that 
mother should not have had a chance to 
vote and help give legal protection to 
her children since her voter was killed? 
I think the women of my household are 
as capable of voting intelligently as any 
of the workmen 1 have had outdoors. If 
I did not think so it would be a fine 
commentary upon my wisdom in seeking 
a mate and partner! 
This personal consideration naturally 
comes first with me. If I were forced to 
admit that my wife and daughter were 
without serious thought of life’s obliga¬ 
tions, “empty-headed,” shirking responsi¬ 
bilities and seeking after rest and pleas¬ 
ure only, I think I should feel differently, 
for most of us must take our views of the 
real worth of humanity from our asso¬ 
ciates. We have enough parrots and lap- 
dogs of the male persuasion voting now. 
It is because I know so many strong, 
sensible and clear-headed women that I 
favor giving them the ballot. I worked 
for a farmer once who was strongly op¬ 
posed to suffrage. He said that all the 
bad women would vote while all the good 
ones would stay at home. It gave him 
a great shock to learn that his own wife 
wanted the ballot. Here is her answer 
to him: 
We will take care of the bad 
women if you will take care of the 
bad men! 
It occurs to me that thousands of men, 
both in city and in country, do not 
realize the helpful possibilities of their 
own wives and daughters. Many a 
woman who ought to be a partner and 
real helper has become a plaything or 
a subordinate. It seems to me that some 
of those women would acquire new life, 
new strength of character, and new in¬ 
terest in the x-esponsibilities of suffrage. 
1 think most of them would take the 
ballot seriously—more so than most other 
classes of citizens who have been in past 
history given the right to vote. Go and 
read history, see how step by step the 
right to vote and share the responsibili¬ 
ties of government was extended first to 
one class and then to another. Leaving 
out the question of sex, there were al¬ 
ways the same old arguments now urged 
against the intelligence and fitness of 
women. As each class of new voters was 
accepted mistakes were made, and al¬ 
ways a large proportion were indifferent 
or did not want the franchise. My belief 
is that women, as a class, will bring a 
finer judgment and keener sense of jus¬ 
tice into public life than any former class 
of newly enfranchised voters. 
You notice, I say will bring. While I 
doubt if New York and New Jersey are 
yet ready for suffrage, I regard the ulti¬ 
mate outcome as sure. It may be some 
years yet, but you may take it from me 
that sooner or later this entire country 
will give the ballot to women. It may 
be wiser to delay it a few years in our 
Atlantic States. I am a philosopher and 
shall not get excited and scold the chil¬ 
dren if we are beaten, or even badly 
beaten, in New Jersey. I am sure, how¬ 
ever, that nothing can stop or turn this 
movement aside, and our children will 
look back in wonder at our age when 
there was any question about the ability 
of intelligent women to assume the re¬ 
sponsibilities of voting. Our little boys 
come of a pedigree which includes slave¬ 
holders in both sides. I saw one of them 
reading “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” the other 
day, and he wondered that there coukl 
ever be such a thing as a slave in this 
country. Years ago in New England 
people would come together and “raise” 
or put up the timbers of a church—and 
then drink up several barrels of rum. 
How your children would wonder at 
that! Well, sir, your grandchildren will 
have greater wonder at some of the argu¬ 
ments you may have put up to show that 
women are unlit to vote! 
Woman’s Wore.—I once heard an 
orator raving about what he called “The 
God-given right to labor.” No one will 
be likely to deny the fact that the aver¬ 
age farmer’s wife has this right—usually 
printed in italics. It is because she does 
her work promptly and without com¬ 
plaint that “agriculture” can puff out 
its chest and make such a showing. Your 
fat Congressman and your black-coated 
professor can get up and tell about it— 
and incidentally call for an appropria¬ 
tion—but when you get back to the 
foundation of it all you strike the brave 
and patient worker by the kitchen stove. 
What would you think of a watchmaker 
who put a fine case on his watch and 
used the poorest material he could find 
for the mainspring? How long would 
his trade last? Yet, the farm woman is 
the mainspring of the farmhouse, and 
that means the “inside works” of the 
nation’s business. Go and look at her 
working outfit, and see what sort of ma¬ 
terial is put into the mainspring. One 
thing that does me good is that story 
on page 487 of the farmer’s wife who, on 
washing day, can hear from her back 
door the puff and cough of a dozen gaso¬ 
line engines all at work running wash¬ 
ing and wringing machines. A great 
thought that, for the saving of that hand 
labor at scrubbing and grinding pays 
good interest in wife, mother and part¬ 
ner. No use talking, the farm woman is 
entitled to a warm house, running water, 
plenty of fuel and a good outfit of kitchen 
equipment. These things belong to her, 
and she ought to have them. In most 
cases she can get them if she will try 
and use her brains. “Striking” or 
scolding are not worth while. A wise 
woman can usually create a “family 
sentiment” about such things which will 
bring them along. In many, and per¬ 
haps most cases, the women will be 
obliged to start the outfit with her own 
money. Let her once get started, and 
the rest will folio’ . This is why we 
have so much to say about women who 
try to develop a little business as a side 
line and thus earn a little money of their 
own. This work has a double value. It 
gives them something new to think about 
and may, in time, develop a paying busi¬ 
ness which will enable them to fit their 
kitchen and laundry and sewing-room 
into well-eiuipped workshops. I preach 
no doctrine of “strike” and fight in such 
matters. The Lord helps those who help 
themselves; and those patient and 
cheerful farm women must use their 
brains and think out plans for helping 
themselves and their children. 
An Old Will. —Speaking of “won¬ 
ders” and women’s rights I can hardly 
do better than print a brief portion of 
an old will. The entire document covers 
some 5,000 words. The land transferred 
in this document does not include the 
present Hope Farm, but does cover the 
first piece of land I ever owned, about 
10 miles away. The spelling is taken 
exactly from this will: 
“In the name of God, Amen, the six¬ 
teenth day of January, Annoq Domini, 
One thousand seven hundred and ninety- 
three, I, Gabriel Hymer, of New Barba- 
does Precinct, in the County of Bergen 
and State of East New Jersey, being of 
perfect mind and memory, thanks be to 
God for the same, and Calling to mind 
the mortality of my body and knowing 
that it is appointed for all men once to 
Die, Do make and Constitute, ordain and 
Declare this my last Will and Testament. 
“Imprimis I will that all such debts 
as I ow and my funeral charges shall be 
paid out of my Estate by my Executors. 
“Item I will and Give unto my beloved 
wife Elisabeth all my estate Real & per¬ 
sonal for and During the term of her 
being my widdow or when my youngest 
Child shall be of age and my Executors 
shall sell such moveables as shall be use¬ 
less to her and to have the yearly Rent 
and Interest thereof for the support of 
the family and schooling of my Children 
and after she Departs her widdowhood 
and Contracts Matrimony then to Give 
up the said estate totally to my Execu¬ 
tors to be administered according to my 
Devise. 
“Item I will and bequeath unto my 
wife Elisabeth at the time she contracts 
matrimony a bed and bedsted, two pillows 
on bolster, four pillow cases and four 
sheets, one blanket, one Coverlid and a 
Cow, one sheep and one lam to her and 
her heirs and assigns forever.” 
Here was a gentleman who did not feel 
very sure of his wife—or perhaps I may 
say he was very sure that she would fol¬ 
low habit and custom. Looking back 122 
years, what do you think of it? Would 
this man have favored suffrage? Was 
this wife a true partner? H. w. c. 
Buying a Barrel of Flour. 
On page 256, L. M. P. wants to know 
about the shrinkage in a barrel of flour. 
The largest millers in New Hampshire 
inform me that flour will shrink both in 
weight and bulk several pounds per bar¬ 
rel in the course of several months. If 
the flour barrel stands on one end for 
any length of time, the flour will drop 
three inches or more in the barrel, los¬ 
ing both weight and bulk, although when 
packed the flour came up even with the 
heads. Formerly they sent out flour in 
paper bags marked “24% pounds,” but 
after standing in stock the weight was 
reduced a pound or more by drying out, 
and the firm now marks its bags as con¬ 
taining “24% pounds when packed.” The 
barrel contains 196 pounds at the time it 
was packed, and there seems to be no 
way of controlling the amount of shrink¬ 
age. w. J. D. 
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