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Show I Have Farmers Been Selfish With llv iv Wives In the current Isbuc of Farm and I Fireside, tho national farm paper i published at Springfield, Ohio, ap- pears an article which seems to indicate in-dicate that farmers wives havo been getting tho short end of the bErgiln. Following 's an extract: "Half a century ago men and women wo-men were about on an equality In t"io matter of tho drudgery of fa"m life. The man had to slavo among the stumps nnd stones. The women il to make Boap, weave, spin and knit. The man was obliged to break his back over the sheaves In the harvest Held, to wield the corn knife and to labor w th the Hall and hoe. The woman had to enrrj' water from the spring, to carry in the wood, and sometimes to chop It, to sweep and scrub and fight files. "Necessity has largely emancipated the man. Invention mado It cheaper and better to use tho mower, tho binder, tho corn harvester, tho windmill, wind-mill, tho gasoline engine, the shred der, the Bllo, the riding plow tho manure ma-nure spreader. Tho cream separator separat-or ond the milking machine are making mak-ing tho wife's work easier too, and bo are many other things. But in many things the Inventions of today have not been placed In tho woman's hands because it has been necessary to adopt them in order to make the farm pay. "So in the course of events that led up to making tho farm pay, the woman has kept on as she used to, In order to moke possible the purchase pur-chase of implements by which her husband could do more work with less effort. Dut I can seo no reason rea-son why her sacrifice Instead of being be-ing perpetuated by habit should not be terminated when the reason for It no longer exists. "Tho timo has now como when wo must move tho flag of women's comfort com-fort up to that plan tod for tho mon. Any farm that co,n afford a silo can nfford electric light or gas, tho vacuum va-cuum cleaner, tho dishwasher and tho washing mnchlno. Any farm that can afford a gasollno englno ctm afford a bathroom nnd an Interior closet And any farm that can nfford n manure ma-nure Bprcador nnd a! hayfork In tho barn can afford running water in tho kitchen. "It's a matter of looking at tno Question In tho right way. It also means giving tho women a square deal. And in tho main it's a- matter of tho women thomselves thinking of theso things as attalnablo necossar- |