A Common Complaint

"Tabitha" sends the Indiana Farmer this very interesting bill of particulars : Aunt Patience says in your paper of August iiO, quoting i'rom some one: "A woman may love her husband devotedly, may sacriflce fortune, friends, f amily, country f or him ; but, melanclioly fact, if she fails to make his liome comfortable, nis heart wlll inevitably escape lier." ïhat must have been written for an Indian squaw and not for us farmers' wives! How can I make nur home comfortable, when there is not a closet in the house, and only seven eight-penny nails in the waïl to hang our clothes on, and there is not a blind on the windows to keep out the hot sunshine, and there is no cistern for soft water, and the big kettle that I made "broke water" in is cracked, and the pump leaks and hasto be primed every time I want a little water, and there is a hole in the garden fence and the hogs got in and destroyed my truck ? Don 't teil me my husband can't afford to furnish better! Ilasn't he got a new bain and painted it red; and a new reaper, and don't he ride when he rakes hay ; and didn't he pay a nice little sum for a "ehilled plow" the other day ? I guess I ehilled him when I showed him my bread pan with a hole in it, stopped up with an old rag' I am tired of this "railing out" at us women all the time, as if we didn't do the best we can. If my husband would sell that Gold dust colt that he paid $i0 for before it was ten days old, and putblinds on our house andpaint'em green ;md make me a pantry and a sink and a cistern, and throw away that old llesor stove, that hasn't a whole lid to it, and make the house only half as comfortable for me as the stable is for the colt, my heart would sing for joy ; and, Mr. Editor, I want you to put it in your paper and say that we farmers' wives are shamefully misused by our husbands' neglect of necessaries and conveniences about our houses, and do you put a head line to the piece, saying something about a colt or horse or cow, and then they'll read it, for it is only the stock pieces that they read in your paper. The editor of the Farmer did ijs requested and obligingly headed the article "A Kicking Cow," so that Hoosier husbands would read it. We don't believe Michigan husbands need to read it. Wliat is that which ties two persons and only touches oneV A wedding ring.