Show J A tIJI M THE FARMER AND IllS FAMILY ft ft www of bl i The ft family I on hl wife Ift bl his children n and hie all the th Important thin Ihan Of a a these more rat flat Ithe the wife It If there la 11 or ever cowl could i who is II er en farm a being tit beabout lit a to b the utmost and andI an It II tb the one who feeds tb I fAI and aM bear bars the tb It If as ao pus Ace easy or of tM the It It Is I Ie abe An AnI And t I do not Dot s that there 1 S I In Ind d a tamer so 10 4 a at with hla hl hlL 11 t ift L fa WIrES WIFE 8 DUI Tie to a great aret doe ciotti rUt tit ha will the wU witt to a mat ex ea eat taut t dose what lb she must mut The Th woman th puts her ber bert hert t lit th the of of one one who waw II SI fa torte t l a t herwit It that power let It a and d comfort she u Ia happy lapPY y abs 11 ix mis misa I tt I 1 to 10 oppre It H makes makel little a 1 r h be to OPP IS If I Ithe th the r Ir she h a p 1 Tb II Ifs continually of the th r lit f her h r 1 and Dd and famar r a 0 herself for to tile HIe wurt fir an i 11 If she he II h hr r t ha 10 the iii In she he re ia all 11 be I II rc Int I It I Is a Jq hish till 1111 o Idom t l th m sod anti thith that thi th r is 18 tru tiu I Is evId Id r f III of f In tn n due r 1 t hurt s IL health any an to to tt It 11 a health a ap t who a farm farmere p n and 1 1 the Ihl girl ere fIl wit expect to 10 work but ehe Bhe ought I n t W til work more hours houri than the mar dot doe not JUr to work at all when unable to tc tod d da to in Sit she doe dati both Then Tbell ar are very try few tew farmer tannen wives who do not work hud hard tor lor days when their husband feeling no more able would 1 lie on the bed and Ind be waited on Doubtless of this tr It Inevitable MOlt Moat of It ti It not notI Tile farmer could make hi wit life I The tr U If he ha would find and he would If hr he l I selfish lie He thinks tea of his hll wife t t tan an of his hll stomach and In n farmere are the wont o oC fn o In the world We commiserate the lot of tho European wh wives who work in the tho Geld They probably hue have an I easier life than the American rho ho kill and wash lIh Ins Ina while their lit alt by and smoke make To most moat men women are arl t They loVe flowers and rib ribbon bone bon and all things that thaI are re beautt 1 fUI Th They y not only love lovi them but must haVo Vo them or be unhappy lb hey like t II a trl chat with a neIghbor and a ahorn horse horn to iI go and VillI The They enjoy social Intercourse to relieve the monotony of oC their lives The fIrmer farmer may care for Cor none of these things ml file work I is not hOt monotonous and his hie business takes him himI I about Jle He comes home to rut while hi his wife must iO go awo away to rut rul These hinge eha pays for tor and It If lb she does not nol t R t l them tham she is II hated cheated and yet t cannot help elt The wife wiC stud I her hue hUI bend and knows knowl him through and I No 0 of bl his is II hid from t h 11 r and since Ince the man will not PI pay hll hie bt br to her bH In s a manly way abe play I C pon n hii bli weakness to get It her due by In Watching hr h r time she Ibe cooks cook cookI I a 1 good goo dinner and Ind then asks kl for help helt t r milk make her flower floer garden The ret rest t by going away from home end the be pleasure pl of a flower garden and about the house hOUN are part of the he COlt coat of carrying un on any n farm These and similar things ar ari are i the Ibe du due The man ow owes them themI I I If he be doss not pay h be defaults simply Imply ue hie wife Ii I She gives b t IOl love and her life liCe Sh She I le entitled to dT In return shown hown daily In th h hI I the LUe that make Inake up her life And Andrw rw she repays repay such ucb things The wife rite nI work herself to death for Cor a kInd kIndI I ford rd and dam it I happiness A As a pure lIre matter of DC It II I as 81 profitable to trat groat a wife well ag 08 It Ill Is to teed feed a steer teer steerS j S Men ark Are accustomed to that Q t y alone provide the family I 1 is 11 It is not true In farmers i Ie 18 true that the man usually pro H the groes crOll Income but the net In Is what counts and for this the woman is II In great part responsible Mon y I saved by the wife ICe is II R as much a 1 to family support u as ut t m my y earned by the husband Tb The Thew w a contribution to the partnership 11 1 1 uron uOn the average averal as much or ue al a t that l ot of the man mall In tome some somer r f ts ara a rt It Is more and In other cases calli lilt lees The Th m ruin being stronger I is not nol In d o recognise this The woman I is to te control the net Income lacome and to the Independent U us of what she be 11 needs for Cor enjoyment She his hat the urn same right a as hr her partner to te take partnership funds fund for Cor Individual Ute sea TO It If IL a man hoe h children he h has a er tamp tall duty dUly toward them it If unwilling to tb that duty dUly hi he should not lIot marry It he be b has a family ud and neglect lit II duty dUh hi he I la as much a defaulter u if f lie he fall to pay money that I due I have no llon or In Intent tint to discus the tbt dunes of parents to children except In tar far i they are pecullar to thu of the farmer TI I The farmers children an n more Inore sub lIb Mol to than those brought up In find and cities because they are brought I less In contact with reality imagination le II Stimulated by the C which constitutes mush math It at whet what is III called literature la In homes bom end and their tendency Is II to tot tonet net a distaste for country life and nd a longing for the Imaginary ease of the t city elt This Thill la II increased t tI by the unquestionably I ot of remarkable achieved eblen by American country boys boYI who with lIh II J training for anything found their wa way to the ell city and 4 prospered It t U the duty ot of the farmer to Im Impress pre press bl his children with the truth the the day when n such things Wire were l to tile the ordinary ordinal bo boy Is II forever gone In 1 this Ninetynine out of ever eVry hundred who hereafter my may try thi route to will tan tall Every Evel to 8 employment In American cities I Inow now choked as 1 nl n It Iha beta been for centuries In Europe In e ev frY cry mercantile or ce those already e employed are ar constantly an In the watch for lOf every open lag lar I ha behalf of th their own dependent and friend Then are twenty cattle for every fery place It is II also alia an al lit age of oa Tb The boy wanted now when any ny 1 wanted not OM and who Is II willing to do hut but OM nn who bo Itow ho how to do something Th farmer farmes duty Chevron Is II n train hl hili children to b be either farmer or Bona w thin else Some home trade or lon they must have hav or they will be terribly handicapped In the race nee of lIf City It y boys boy themselves understand 4 this Country boys do not Dot realise all It Then ar are man many which are re de In life but ut only food shelter and clouting are essential obese an easiest come b by In the country and country life WUl wUI therefore always br bp easier eller than elt city UI life The boys bo do 40 not realise all this tilla and It It Is a farmers duty to MIle to convince them At the seme time the city will always be recruited from Crom the round Oun nd 11 Ir d these f who go goto 0 I to the I city a will suo BE 81 TO WORK Hut the but beat evidence of probable sit s In city dlf life liCe Is II unusual elIve ness un the farm The boy who is II most mOlt helpful at al home will Ae e most mOlt likely tobe to tobt bt be successful elsewhere Th Tb shiftless boy bor lna may be a genius but I is probably a on one Th boys boy and girls therefore should be trained to work TIll The old doctrine that boys boy we were bound to work for Cor their until years of 01 age alre I is thor thoro o wholesome and useful The children have ban duties to parents as welt well u II parents to children and nd chi dren ought not Dol to expect what their parents are arl unable to 0 bestow benow TO WORK nY A mans man duty to his hll children IS II mess vied urell by his II ability lie III is II not bound to Impoverish himself or to 10 burden bl his years yura with debt In order to make makl life easy y for his hll children Th The 00 boy who attains position pollIon In life fife will do so 0 by bv tb the qualities inherent In himself All Ml his father cn can do I to aid In preparing him for a useful ca a arear career rear reer When he does dOft this to the extent ot of his hll ability he b has done hi hie dul duty In a 10 fr fares hi he falls to do what In reason realon be becan cn can hi he falls of his hla duty American fathers seldom fall In their desire or effort to do Win well by their children but often do fall faU in good judgment It Is II the nature of children to play and It la II proper that thaI they should do so 10 but It Itis is II also allO essential that the they acquire habIts hab habIt It Its of oC work and nd not only of work but butof of nf re The farmer has hal Inthis In this respect great advantage over resident of the te city II lie Je always has hal light work for lor which hI he ran n make his hll children responsible This bl should be begun at an early age e and increase as al althe the boy grows rowl older un until III after atter fifteen years rt ot of ale age the greater part of bill hla time when not In 1 school should b be devoted to work It is II by work on only that the habit ot of work can be acquired aCQuire and only by exercising responsibility rn can faithfulness and Dd judgment be tested the of the parents parente permit It m may be Well to give Ivf bo boys a pecuniary interest In what they do but far a ii the boy is II concerned the Ilu of It mainly M In him the ce of et the of earn n nIn In and nd the Importance of at keep Ins It t TIle The majority of children ook to a life lite of work prudence and Ind reward The farmers son IOn who remains on the farm tarm may with reason look forward to a life of working on his hll own land Ind Not on one In Ina Ina a hundred of these tho who drift ort off to can possibly achieve anything rut but a subordinate VOlition position In which ho hn rust InUit do de the will of another to so long lone sa as ash satie h tie lives TIle The farmer owes to the he son lOll the duty duly or of making him under laud tand this Neither I Is a modest lit litan life in an unhappy life EDUCATION AND GOOD nOOKS DOOKS from the common school the test education which farmers children can an have is II good books Of th these good ot of successful men ar are un the beat bett The They supply the tory story which the young oun oran craves and Incidentally con convey V Information The dally daily paper In n the he farmers bou house I Is a nuisance tenths of what It contains U II ot of no to value to anybody and nd a part of f It Is II Fw Few young oun eople take kindly to books of a pure Iy V character but those thole who do to should be with them It If Ih here are sign of an especial peel bent to aft any useful uhl occupation It should be e encouraged whether In boys or girls Ih he city youths have a great t advantage ver oYer tb those ot of the country countr In the great gret to which they have scorn 1111 bit of country Ute life It U Ia the thesty dut sty of the tarmac fanner to supply to the beet ot 1 his hla ability IX IN HABITS OF WORK In short the duty of the father u a farmer armer seems ml to me lae to be to PI get out of oC ofIs Is childrens heads hlada the notion that tbt city de I Is In any wa way easier than country countr I 11 M to t train them to habits of Work ad responsibility not beyond their trench and nd their years an and to the bet tit of his hll ability to supply them with Ihl he mesas mant of jetting tUn useful Ion When this le II dorm donI it If there Is Ia any In them of oC value It will develop self If then is II not that Is II the end nd of It II hs h Jn nn hl duty Th farmers will 1 by mut musty ly Iy than hl dUlY la II to their lIos bitch Ilch us hot by would bo be that hla hili own an should old of farm farmers Sons hiring out to farm farmere ere r tl ri b I ant It wa t us 1 t g i 1 nd yon ft nothing that IhM I 1 rm 1111 any r Ie ly to 10 It l rn re wits seem II to drift off rt I work among and unI tn t spend pent hat thy Ih earn Iun in hunting III 1 for fOIl nw new job In the end th they tend to ate Int the and transient class I with which farmers and tit or 1111 to todeal 0 doll deal I Away Any from tl the n of nr home and 1111 family their ten denry is 18 Whet each form farm farmer rr er can do to check her this is III to employ farmers suns of hl his acquaintance so for far as 11 he ran do sn 81 and t he employs to 10 treat them thern with social eon ft Th The faithful young mAn mAnI I who works on a farm II I as aa good 1004 a man mun Ih the h he ark for If hp he le II tint lint treated nt II h ho will b be Is III no n social distinction I between n the fermer and allt the farm larm hand It If one Is III set t UP desirable men Inn will bl be out nut of the busl and the most mOlt opening for the son IOn of the farmer himself be berut rut put PO F Adams Adami In the Modern Modero Farmer |