THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



gered, and some of our party who had been
too late for the church services, determined to
have the compensation of a flower or bud from
the wealth of bloom that could not possibly all
be preserved. Whether because I had a speak-
ing acqusintence with the central figure of
that floral platform, or that I was most of a
Yankee of any in our little company, I was
commissioned to bring the flowers, if such
coinld be had. I did make my way to the posi-
tion, where, having caught Mr. Beecher's eye
and indicated my wish, I met the approval of
a smile tind bow! Certainly I did and brought
flowers, whi'h, being arranged, made a nice



but not for the fingers, for are there not plenty
of little garments that have been unluckily
caught upon strong brambles or inconvenient
nails, besides the backs that will soon require
a new covering. Children tear off their clothes
so fast, especially when they go to school.
  All too soon the noisy boys and girls are at
home again-then there are twenty things wan-
ted at once, and for the life of you you can't tell
which to get first. Their wants supplied, you
turn your attention towards supper; wash
dishes again, attend to milk, clean sauce for
breakfast, wash chubby faces, hands and feet,
slip theni between the sheets, sit down and



ltite niemor.:l boquet tur each one of owr draw a long breath of relief,
that is, if the
parry of five.                               little troop are likely to drop
asleep soon.
  t  hidl w .e go hlom  be Not theni; neither did  Again there is rest for
the weary feet, but
tiLe ehildrej;. Thi.i being aniversary day for !none for the ever busy fingers,
for there are
all he Sa&ath Schlools of Brooklyn, thlese ith Iall the feet in the family
to keep covered, and
othier. t- the number of eigbt thousand, asseni- t  i    i
                <      r            '       !~~~~~~~the knitting is evei
lasting. As you sitby the



bled in cuirol Park. Now, lont tall;, but bright light, busily plying the
shining knitting
y: w ho have iznaginat.n enough, jist thintk |needles, the good man of the
house comes in.
ii' 't. TheC afternoon of a beautifull d:y, a: Eis day's work is done; perhaps
it has been
| beaut~iful; 1anr k. the aetor, eight thnsand 1a hard one, but now it is
over. lie seats him-
beautifut children, five bands of music, the self by your table in an easy
chair, asks wife
great mass of people below, the blue heavens to get him the last paper, and
composes himself
blending above.                Mvas. lTowy.  for a good rest, fingers and
all; furnishing his

                                      Womn' Wormind with healthful food at
the same time. If
                                               you should ask him to read
aloud, as you had
   [There is much force in the following arti- found no time to look over
the papers, he
 cle, and we hope that none of the thousand would undoubtedly tell you he
was too tired.
 husbands and fathers into whose hands the Should you intimate that you were
tired also,
 FARMER regularly goes will fail to read and he would look at you in astonishment,
wonder
 consider it.-Et).]                           how any one could get tired
puttering around
   Women's work is never done. Up in the in the house all day; he could do
all the house-
 morning with the lark, prepare breakfast for work in two hours. Wants to
know if you are
 ever so many hungry mouths; wash dishes, tired why you don't rest and read,
not sit there
 skim milk, churn, work butter, bake bread, punching away at that knitting
work that
 make beds, sweep roomfs, dust furniture hunt don't amount to any thing.
 strings for Willie, bonnet for Susie, jack-knife, You turn your eyes back,
review your days
 for Sammy, and shoestrings for Mary, fill the labor and find, fatiguing
as it has been, that
 dinner ba,.ket, wash and comb and send off to you have done nothing that
he would call any
 school half a dozen urchins; clean kitchen, thing, or you either, taken
separately; yet all
 blak stove. scour pans. knives, forks, and no together how tiresome it has
been. Take six
I one but a genuine housekeeper can tell what I almost might say seven such
days, for in a



not. Prt pare dinner, wash dishes, sweep and large family there is much that
must be done
now for a little rest.-Yes, rest, for the feet, even on the Sabbath; add
the washing, ironing



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