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Show THE NEEDS OF THE FARMER'S WIFE Tho government has Just Issued a third bulletin discussing tho needs of farmers' wives. Tho f armor's wifo has been considered a beast of burden. In old times somo of tho heaviest tasks of tho farm wero laid on her shoulders. Churning, butter making, milking, wero somo of her special fields. Added to cooking, washing, house cleaning, sweeping, etc., It mado n ery toilsome Ufo. Tho farmor would havo his hours of respite when ho would tako a pleasant drive Into tho market town to get the mall, mako purchases and deliver produce. Theoretically he was engrossed ln business. Actually he spent many hours of diverting gos-1 sip along tho curbstones. It wns not I oiten that his wifo went on theso I pleasant llttlo junkets. Sho was too busy. Butter making Is now dono moro in creameries and factories. Milking Is sometimes dono by machinery, and tho farm hand does It much moro than tho wifo today. A good many farmers do havo somo conveniences llko running water, sowing machines, better kitchen tools. Hut It's a safo guess that tho farmer's wifo works longer thnn tho farmer oven today. It Is sometimes snld that many farmers' wies go crazy. Tho work may seem quiet, but tho monotony may allow tho mind to becomo morbid. mor-bid. With tho every ready telcphono on hand to oxchango gossip nftor breakfast, tho loneliness Is less ncuto I now. Probably whllo some recreation would do moro to ameliorate tho lives ot farmers' wives than any household luxury or modern machinery. Somo ono notes that in a certnln town an I Improvement society wont to work and got up a monthly Borics ot old tlmo country dances. Tho city peo-plo peo-plo snlekorod at them, in thoso days ot fox trots and one steps. Hut no dancing master at $2 per hour wns required to teach thorn, and thoy gavo expression to tho deslro for rhythmic motion Just as woll as tho latest nroadway twinklo. And tho farmers families would talk about ono ot theso dances for n week afterward. after-ward. No complaints ot lonollncss In that townl |