Wisconsin State agricultural society . 
did not like it. There was too muck work, too many prevations 
and no society, and he left it for other business. This may be 
very considerate on the part of a husband, but we deem it a 
relinquishment of many advantages and pleasures for the love of 
ease. 
There is no woman of intelligence and ability who finds herself 
settled upon a farm, but will accept the situation and go on with 
her home making and home keeping, if there is shown a proper 
regard for the pleasures and adornment of her home; if she can 
have a rightful apportionment of time, money, and help to make 
such improvements as taste and skill would suggest. In this 
there must be the same progression that attends the farmer in his 
fields. The farmer’s wife must find her joys and pleasures in her 
home, or she finds it nowhere in the wide world. 
Women will like farming if there is anything onward and up¬ 
ward about it, but, as that spicy writer, Gail Hamilton, would say? 
it must not be “one uninterrupted flat.” She will like farming, 
if it gives her that high, pure pleasure so dear to women — the 
opportunity to make her home delightful to her husband, her 
children, and her guests. 
Nowhere can woman make her home attractive so easily, with 
so small an expenditure of money, as she can in the country. 
Beneath her skillful hand flowers will come in their loveliness 
and fruits in their excellence, and while Flora’s treasures give 
beauty and fragrance from the bosom of every blossom, myriads 
of busy bees will gather and store in waxy cells of curious work¬ 
manship delicious sweets for the table. Fruitful vines trained to 
some rustic trellis, may adorn her garden, and mingled with the 
rich green foliage of luscious grapes in color of amber, or faintest 
green, or royal purple, will wait in massive clusters to deck the 
festive board. The splendid trees that give shelter and shade 
will yield their varied fruits ; the forests will give their mosses 
and ferns, and pleasing ornaments made by skillful fingers will 
add other charms to her tasteful home. 
In her humble dwelling she may spread an intellectual feast as 
rich as though her’s was a home of wealth. From the Review 
. down to the child’s paper, she may select the choicest reading for 
her family. The beautiful pages of the Aldine will afford amuse- 
