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Show the'new woman " 'I INAGRICULTURE J To keep a hired girl on the farm some wit has proiwseel keep a good looking hired man Somewhat Ihe santo sort of remed) would seem In be yffertive In keep the boe ott the farm keep the e.oenl looking gills there. At the meeting list week of the Tanners' Natleeual Congress al Mae-nit, 11a, lei-porls lei-porls Indicated the time 1 touting when the girls will sta) on tho farm, man) women tecently having ibllhcr-ntel) ibllhcr-ntel) nnd Willi malice nfoietltoiight adopted farming as a profession The Hon James (1 Htnlil, secretary of Hit rainier' emigre, rend u piper nt Macon, which scrum In liaie met with hearty approval The honorable secretary secre-tary snld the signs of the times till joint to the day when thete will bo many woman fanners 11 Is Hlrendy fashionable for girls to be athletic and sunburned Wh) not, mild Mr .Stahl, ma) II not become the fashion for them te be farme r7 I'uim work, the senie-I senie-I iry nigueel, Ix no inert tiring on Ihe muscle than licking u Dpewrller, and It Is decldedl) less vvcnlllig on tin nervous nerv-ous s)Mcm, and nine li iiion healthful Wont ill ho H.cl.l. Inn ulrnid) titkett nan' pi no to a I irge ixtinl In the schoolroom, tho store the lelllie Veil even in the pulpits mi, I tin courts 7v not mi the farinT Thee pist sutntiur -Mr. Stahl te-ibl, sivv it lirgi number of women winking In Ihe tie Ids, ,tnd far from the sight being one for coin miserntlon, It wns one for icjolilug What rather" iisked .Mr Hlahl, 'would lint pnfer teceliig his daughter helping hlui In the Held operating the mower or Iho harvester or hit) take or torn plnnlet than timpllng fnti nmld Ihe nl title I it. unwholesome mid chingciuurt ccindllloiiH jf the ill) " To which hist question of the hnniir-tlblt hnniir-tlblt secrel.lt), lejeeil t Imllliltcn the fanners responded wllh n feivid union Them must be some skeptic ul ones, however, to whom the query will ailse, who, If women ate tu take to tho llclds, will sta) In tho old fat uilieiiisi nnd do the scrubbing und the baking und Ihe preparing of those bountiful icpasts nt "laietlcnl' htrvest time? 1'or tho Idled girls good looking hlied men to the tonliur), will of course wish to follow their mlstiessen bchliiel the plow l'oi It Is pun ceding on n false premise to git) tint women on furius tin something some-thing new The have been lhtic. since the ela) of I'ltlu t Mirahnin, and they li have woiki I the average fnrtn-vvlfe ' Mil ptobibl) doing it nine h ns the average lm twei or thibe husk) lilted men Theonly ( dlileienee now Is Hint the women em the farms seem cleslroux or changing i , JlH their department eif laleni Instead of ",IIH the farm housework, they seem now tu tjmt be wanting In do something nt tho ne I t IfHJ ttal running All nf whlih, It would 4 Wm seem might rather he viewed with , flfll nlaim than tetelvod with tniigrttttila iil(B Hon. li) Hie runner of the land Car if i'l fnun nppl Hiding the linn. John t. ' S Klahl the) should perhaps chant with ! im Ihe mt lu ihoriis 1 j am "IT luce one past In n iltisthenp lies, nnllrfl Having to si rub, to bike, to brew, I1, jlllH Nurse elress prattle and scandalize, f nlH Nothing Is left for tho men to tin ' 'i-'II1H Then Is one hopeful algn In the lion irHLvJEBI Mr Stnhl s tedlctlons, however Far Valt'lCI fi in Ihe firmer nil Hekklng In the PWanSM towns ns some dismal sociologists hive iiflVirfl iniinlnlnnl Ihe number of women who 191 II V nte hemming runners la onl) .mother ;!fii,'lll Itiillrillon of the gicnt return tn farm jP7 , life ns evervuheie seen The urban at VlJ He gintvn licit Is fist pouring Id "h-k- Ift'llfl els link Into the soil not nlwn). II Is IMlel believed lu pun spec illation, hut be E!lfn taiise nf n glowing belief In Ihe ftttttrn KtlaH of the farm ns nil 1,1c ill nbnilo fur IIN L5SI lug Where Is Ihe tu in, with sinil so BlU dead, who dens not look forward some mIDI 11111 lo owning iv faint an lovvn farm fiLuv lurfiribl. If not ii .Missouri farm, an 9lVs Illinois faint, an old farm Staid HtlfC i liieol miiiimn nte ever) where found JSft luv sllug their ruining lit farm lands, .IjjS with tin Rweet thniirhi, no tbuiht, nt Hi sometlmo lu Ihe future taking their jj!L I h iiel-cnruetl ntltint emu dlgnllnlo nn ti tulT farm I'nr the fattit llfo nf the fiitnra li will baldly be the drudgery It has been jfl u , for tho women-folk In Ihe past. Inter If I urban tiolle)s und telephones nnd rtt 9 1 nil delivery will nil in ike It possible for the funnels' vvlvt to have their C " clubs nnd ease nnd good times gener- B J ally quite as itiiirh lis their urbin sis- Bl I era B? J Cnnnging conditions nn the farm nil 3) go tu show bow n benellccnt pnwer hna m $ urratiHcd It to keep the olicillil nf pop 311 3 I illation ever cleur und fresh Once ffijilS when the rapid up-biilldliig factories mtt deninuded nn arjiiy of workmen tt jv s looked us If all the farms lu the land HB J i were lo be ilb.indoned Now, when con- Hfij elltluns have inl.ioil o the value and tho X I e harm of fnrni lire, the farmer urn M 'I scattering buck tu their ti.vn ngnln, thu Hi K ' vviimen Jntiilng lu tin i base Thus runs (ii t the world uwuy -Iteglster und lender 111 ti |