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results than we have ever seen. Slowly, but surely, the useful 
and the beautiful adornments of nature may be brought to the 
home of the farmer, and the reward which years of industry will 
surely give, may add the embellishments of art, till his home will 
become one of culture, of refinement, of taste, and of elegance; 
surrounded with verdant fields, where countless flocks will turn 
his land to gold, with gentle herds resting in coolest shade, with 
broad acres of waving grain, where reapers ride “like ships at 
sea,” with splendid trees yielding their delicious fruits, with clus¬ 
tering vines loaded with their rich treasures, with busy bees gath¬ 
ering sweets from fragrant flowers, with Pomona’s pearls and 
Flora’s gems to deck his table, the farmer’s home may be more 
beautiful to behold, more delightful to possess, than any other 
costly home can be. 
HELP ON THE FARM. 
BY MRS. H. P. TUCKER, APPLETON. 
Man was told that by the sweat of his brow he should eat bread. 
It might have been added — for it is no less a fact — that by the 
sweat of somebody’s brow the bread should be made which man 
is to eat, and that that brow is woman’s. Intellectually and physi¬ 
cally, mankind must either wear out or rust out. Labor is not a 
curse, but a blessing, and it is not my object to entertain you with 
a list of grievances, or a sum of complaints, but to consider with 
you how best upon the farm, woman can live so as to be prepared 
to fill the stations which she always has and always will occupy, 
the mother of our great men, and their wives. 
It may be considered something strange, when we all admit 
readity that labor is a blessing, and without it civilization would 
degenerate into barbarism, that we spend the best powers of our 
life trying to avoid it. We look with envy upon those who are 
exonerated from its necessity, and have among us those who de- 
