Show WHAT IS A WOMAN WORTH TO HER HUSBAND 1 much is a woman on the farm tarm her husband and to what hat extent should she be b corn com compensated corn 1 That question was vas as put putto putto putto to the Of o an n agrIcultural paper r and th the answers were mot most Interesting One woman oman declared sh she had bad labored III Ia bored 30 31 lears ears serving meals baking balling loaves of bread and makIng pies and cakes Sh She bad had raised raed ra ed ned chicks pounds of ot butter and andl l iut ut in 3 36 41 hours hour washIng sweep sweep-Inz sweep sweep- sweepIng jog Ing scrubbIng She estimated her herren herPer Per ren Ice at none ot of which she saId ald had been collect collected d Her Herle Herle le ard were ere r her b r husband and chit ren dren and she wouldn't t mind start start- starting startIng ing all over again acain for tor them A man writes n rites to ledge acknowledge the tho great given el en by women wOlDen on farms lie He says ills It Is a w ell eli II established tact fact that man JUan n thousands of ot good en lIous women omen omm hav have bave slaved themselves them sel ves to death on the farm arm They sank Into Inlo untimely graves craves to make nay a ator tor for new lIew household drudges The tanners tanner's second v wife Ire lf would v near ear out In a tow few ears and fold ber toil worn orn hands tot 01 the long rest The minister would auld comment anew but feelinglY upon I the inscrutable of ol God Often octen before the clods were ere well ell on ou the grate crae ot of the de- de departed departed de departed parted our bereaved brother the victIm o of these Inscrutable in pro I dences would a cast a calculating eye over ovel the th vIsible supply of ot mar mar- maidens looking for lor an- an another an another other husky young female willing willingto to work eighteen hours a day and mother ten stepchildren for her ber board and keep But But the th housewife whose who end endless endless less round of ot drudgery has ha made hr the butt of ot B a lot of ot ill timed jokes perpetrated chiefly by soured and saturnine bachelors has h at lASt been recognized as Ing Inga 1 JUst a place ot of dignity and Importance In the tho economic world MID hiss Margaret Margarct Feddes eddes of ot the University of Nebraska has bas figured exactly exact what lb tb the wages of th the aver average age Ige E farm arm wife should be and It comes to the tho th ally accurate amount of 01 ot It Includes separate Item Items toi tot cooking and serving meals mas washing and Iron jag cleaning car care ot of children and sick tick helping with milking and care caro of poultry sewing and mending and miscellaneous services servIce What will the thi bewildered agri- agri agriculturalist agriculturalist think thi k of the above claim when presented by his smiling partner at the end of the year We opine that his hi views s view will wJ have bave c to undergo a radical change chance betOI e ehe he will be ready rendy to pay his v tife Ite 67 per month lor for Just about the tho house hous sixteen or eight eighteen een hours a dab da seven days out ot of the week Ho He has alwa always s a recognized her heras heras heas as a partner of or a fw tow of his joys and all of ot hIs bis sono s but this Is Isa Isa a horse hors of ot another color Tho The Crage a husband and wife on e hate no thought of a divided compensation Whatever Is obtained through their united efforts Is la to be bo a 0 Joint join t possessIon conserved for lor their children AIn As AsIn AsIn In the cit the father and mother on the farm Tann feel teel they are laboring not so much to promote thel their own owr welfare ellaro as to pro Ide ld for tor the th well ell being of ot their children |