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Show irOMEX AS FJIUIEnS. THEYABi: AS alCILKUL ASD PRUDENT PRU-DENT MANAGERS ASTIIKIR HUSBANDS. Farmers who find tho business profitable owe much of their success to tbe good management of their wives, says the Indianapolu Xcwu It Is conceded by all that a farmer without a wifu who is a good malinger mali-nger cannot expect to nuko money. Asaireneral tiling fanners' wives are as skilful managers as their bus-lands, bus-lands, and share almost equally with them the burdens and privations priva-tions of farm life. A woman who has been reared in thocountry Anils pleasure and health in overseeing tho dairy, the garden and the poultry poul-try yard, as well as looking after her household duties. When a farmer far-mer has such a wife he can devote lib entire time to his general farm work, and at the end of tho year the profits will be well nigh doubled. There are in Indiana a great many women who farm extensively ami are as skilled in the business as any of the men. These women Jjave made money out of tho buafci-ss, and would not give lt up for any other calling. .Marion Count' has quite a number of women who have been giving farming much thought, and are equipped to unko the business bus-iness a success. Many of these ladies la-dies are members of county agricultural agri-cultural societies, and their views are always given as much weight at those expressed by the male members. mem-bers. Miss Ida Richardson, who was brought up ou a farm south of the city, believes that successful and enjoyable en-joyable farming depends largely upon the home management by the wife. Bile would have te wife be a helpmeet to tho husband In all thing; not a slave to work, but a woman who takes an interest In tho airalrs of the farm and manages the home' so as to Increase tho husband's firoC.s. Bbe thinks the country lome is, or should be, the ideal one. |
