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Show THE FARMER'S WIFE. 1 Do you know why farmers' wives arc the happiest, most contented, youngest looking women in the com- ,i munity? Well, here is the solution. The farmicr's wife shares her hus- j band's .business in every respect. She knows how much he gets from his I hogs; whether he is going to put the. northeast field into wheat or corn, whether he is going to let the south ten acres go to pasture this season, when he gets a good price for his grain, and how many loads of eobs ' they can spare to sell. Every root and branch of the farmicr's business is known and shared by his wife. She has her own individual branch .of business for which she gets her own individual money. She keeps what breed of chickens she most admires. She sells her eggs, makes her butter, and buys her own things with her own money or salts at down in the family treasury as her inclinations tend'. The farmer's wife is the farmer's partner in business as well as domestic affairs. af-fairs. Therefore she is contented; she io busy, very busy; every moment mo-ment of her day counts and is spent where it is most needed. Therefore she is happy. She drives to town with her husband and sells- her butter or cream or eggs as he sells his wheat or corn or hogs. She is independent; therefore she canes nothing about independence, in-dependence, and she remains young. She is doing her share toward that comfortable retired1 life that a farmer, j 1 1 and only a farmer, reaches at about 60 years of age. A farmer and his wife travel together, sec the countries and places they have read about and visit their married children together. You never hear of a farmer going off and visiting his folks, white his wife goes in mother direction and visits I hers. |