The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 10, 1918, Page 17

2 £ =S m — o R il P ol “is—don’t growl! - in the room? I was at ‘ the county fmr last fall, / v ',// /,,, % ’////,, ’// // //// Honest Men It s a Shame to Do It So— BY MRS. SAM DEAN WANT a word with the farmer’s . wife’s husband! So many things are being written to the farmer’s wife that shé is wearied with them. I would like the “at- tentxon of the men folks please! You know how much is being said about the women economizing these days. - You know what a radical change this. substituting has made in the cooking —you know how much harder and faster the women must work to find time for Red Cross work. Perhaps you think you've done your duty by eating what she cooks but remember she has to eat it and cook it too. ‘What I want to say on that subject If the barley bread turns out heavy as lead remember its hard to learn to use these new flours —one can’t always tell what the re- sults will be. Bear it with ‘a good grace. It’s more disappointing to your wife than you. Have your wife and children given up candy? Very near- ly. You never see them buying it now and as for making a pan of fudge, it seldoms happens. They are saving the pennies for war stamps. + What about that tobac- co you chew or smoke? Is jt a necessity? Is it a pleasure shared-by the rest of the family? Let me see; if father brings home fruit or nuts he en- joys then with the rest; if he spends-the money. for tobacco, all the pleas- - ure mother and the chil- dren-get out of it is the second hand smoke—and that often makes them sick. - It is especially good for the baby, isn’t it? Now don’t get angry . and throw the paper down right here — read on. Did you ever notice how selfish tobacco makes a man? No mat- ter how hard up a family get—no matter how lit- tle money there is to spend for groceries— - father gets his tobacco. - THE THOUGHTLESS YOUNG MAN I know a man who complamed aboyt his wife using teo much soap. = She got out the store bills one day QQQ Then - did some-figuring, she showed him the re- sults. . He was spending more for tobacco every week- than she for soap. The tobacco, needless to . say, was for his sole benefit—the soap an ab- solute necessity for the whole family. Did you ever notice how men will smoke and smoke and never seem to care how. offensive it is to others Mrs. Dean, the author of 'this .- article, is the wife of a North “Dakota farmer. Her. article is by way of a “come-back” on au- thors in popular women’s maga- zines, who are continually tell- ing the women how they can “keep” their husbands, and whe never say anything about how the husbands can “keep” their wives. Mrs. Dean is perhaps a little too severe on the men folks who enjoy an occasional smoke but, nevertheless, her letter voices- a protest that it will do the men good to read. It will be remembered that Mrs. Dean was one of the win- ners in the prize letter contest conducted by the Leader’s wom- an’s page some time ago, and she has contributed several artj- cles: to this page since then.— THE EDITOR. - ~ sitting up in the grand stand enjoying the races. Just behind e, one seat to my right, sat a young man.who be- gan smoking cigarettes. The smoke came directly into my ¥ace, almost choking me and my boy. I coughed and choked, turned my head away but with no relief. My husband re- marked that it was a mighty poor place -. to smoke where others could not get away from it but it never “fazed” the smoker.: He kept right on until sev- eral in his mneighborhood — ourselves among them—got up and left. Now of course you are.a gentleman and you weuldn’t do that. No one but a ‘rude boer would. As for chewing tobacco and spitting an ugly “puddle on the nice clean land” you wouldn’t do that either; would you? Can you imagine loving a woman who smoked or chewed tobacco? Ugh! Can you think of kissing her with her mouth full of the offensive stuff? - A few little brown spots on her chin and front of her dress perhaps? Can you? If you do chew tobacco—get ' your face full of it'and stand in front of the mirror some day and just watch your- self awhile. “Just stand aside and see yourself go by.”, Can you expect a woman to love you when you indulge in such an offensive habit? HOW TO KEEP A WIFE'S LOVE Now the reason I am spouting on this loving business is that we can't pick up a magazine without reading advice on “How to keep %our hus- A G]RL AT THE HELM S Re e S PAGE szm'rm ‘A Vassar oollege gn'l operafing a tractor in the field at the Eastern States exposition, Springfield, Mass. What a woman of domestic habits can do when the occasion demands also has been demonstrated by | Mrs. Phil Llll'ring, wife of a Grea} "Northern locomotive engmeer of Great Falls, Mont. She has just re- turned from the homestead, north of Fort Shaw, where she put in a month of labor operating a big 40- horsepower tractor which pulled a drag consisting of a gang disc and an eight-foot seeder. Her husband manipulated the plows and the seeder while she attended the tractor, and from 9 a. m. . until 10 p. m. every day for a month without stopping for lunch, they tore into the stubble and seeded” 348 acres. The Liffrings, actuated by patriotism and industry, made a $6,000 gamble against a poor crop, havmg invested that amount in plowing machinery and supplies. Out in North Dakota Miss Marie Jerome, 16-year-old danghter of Mrs. T. W Jerome, a widow living 12 miles south of Minof, has completed seeding 160 acres comprising her mother’s farm. Having no boys large enough to do the work and unable to. obtain competent help, Mrs. Jerome was in a quandary as to. how the land was to be farmed, when her two daughters, Marie and Ursul, senior by a couple of years, volunteered. Marie took upon herself the fnrming proper, pluwing, dngging, discing, seeding, while Miss Urml dl;l the other iobs mund the farm. ) ~This Article on How Husbands Can Hold Their lees Love Is Put on the s . Woman’s Page Where You Won t See It Unless You Are Snoopmg | \ v band’s love,” or “How to keep sweet and attractive so that home wijll be the dearest spot on earth to him,” or words to that effect, and we’re tired of-it. " Why, one would think you men folks were the most sensitive creatures that ever happened and if we didn’t keep right up to snuff you’d cease loving us and find affinities elsewhere. What T’d like to write about is a few of the things you should do to keep our love. You ought to keep sweet and attrac- tive too! Do you think a woman can love you when your lips are covered with tobacco juice? Do you know that you look like the very old scratch with your shoes laden with mud and manure and your overalls ditto; two . weeks’ growth of whiskers on your chin and your hair as long as a Quaker’s? Do you think your wife ean get up much enthusiasm when she sees you coming in looking like that? How do I know that farmers do let themselves go “so slack”? Well, I've been mar- ried to ene for the last 15 years and sometimes I’'ve wanted to grab him and just “chuck” him in the tub, clothes and all. Of course a man can’t come * in from the fields on a windy spring day and not be dirty but it does seem to me that -farmers, as a class, do go about looking a bit seedy. THAT SWEET OLD CORNCOB PIPE “ My John too —but bless your seoul! I wouldn’t change him for any man living. He does smoke until I can’t visu- he doesn’t chew and he . knows where’ ‘and. when to smoke—'most . always! ~ Still I could" tove - him- " just as much if he didn’t smoke at all and T know he is-far more pleasing to me ‘when he is clean scrubbed and dressed in decent clothes. .. The courtmg appear- " anée<in you is just as pleasing te us as the other way ’round. You like us to be dain- ty and clean in person and habit—we like you that way too. ANYHOW, THE LEAGUE IS FINE Oh, I wish the farmers would work more with their heads and not work with. their hands until their heads refuse to’ work at all! I am so -glad they are Wwaking up all over ‘the United States and I want to see them successful and have time to enjoy life. Per- haps they’ll think more then of appearances. Well, here I'm .on that League again. I did want to ‘preach te men a little—seems like there’s entlrely too much preach-- ing’ to women.- 2 alize him without a corn- éob pipe in his mouth but = | 3 ) 3o 4