Show fa t 1 cad T Y LIFE HARDE OAR FARMERS MERIS WIFE NEED NOT ENVY HER URBAN SISTER prevalent belief that the former la Is a household House hoid drudge disproved by facts proper comparison I 1 of conditions IDY iby CLINTON af SHULTZ does the farmers wife work too nard Is she a greater drudge than the city housewife Js Is her health broken by toll toil more quickly than that of the woman of the city it is a prevalent belief that as compared with a city housewife the farmers wife has a harder lot in life we do not believe it it is true that a farmers wife particularly in her early days of married life works hard but so must the wife of a city mechanic the farmers wife works to secure a home and a competence for herself and her family andin and in orear that she may spend her declining years in comfort andi and peace while the life of a mechanics wife from drom her wedding day to her death is as a rule a never ending bitter struggle to make the inadequate income of her husband meet the demands of the family very few mechanics working for da day wages ever secure a competency to care for them in their old age it is hard work down to the bitter end and the city housewife is confined to the narrowest social limitations and comforts of every day life the farmers wife must rise early and cook three meals a day for her hungry husband and boys but she has an abundance for her table growing at her kitchen door and is rarely obliged to economize in food the mecha rise even earlier I in ord er to prepare 1 h her er husbands break breakfast fast jn in time bor him to make a journey of four c five miles or even greater distance distances 1 in time to be at lils his place when voil begins and often slid she is obliged to pr practice atice the most most rigid economy in order orae to provide food for her table the farmers wife lives in a cleans clean atmosphere in a riot of sunshine and sweet air while the mechanics wife often during her whole life is confined to three or four small rooms to which she must climb up long flights flight s of stairs and is only able to snatch an occasional breath of air or feel the suns warmth for an hour in a crowded city park modern conveniences can now be found in thousands of farmhouses all over the land equipped with bathtubs hot adt and cold water acetylene gas telephones and every modern aid to good living M the farmers home is far mote more comfortable on the average than the home of the city mechanic life in a city flat is depressing and 1 has a narrowing influence influent ce upon the lives of women the telephone and the trolley have banished the isolation under which formerly farmers wives suffered and have brought them into as close relation with their relatives friends and neighbors as that enjoyed by the wife of the city worker city life has many attractions foi women and possesses many addan to people who have the money to pay for them but taking the life of the wife of the average farmer and the wife of then the average city mec mechanic hallic jc there Is a breadth and hopefulness and sweetness and comfort for the farm woman which can never be attained by the dweller in a city flat |