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The Baby On The Farm

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Day
15
Month
August
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Even if the baby's coming interferes with all sorts of thrifty plans to help the husband pay off the mortgage on the farm, an acute financier once gave a large sum of money to endow a college upon the ground that he considered boys a better investment than land, rites Helen Jay In the Ladies' Home Journal. In the childless home the money may come in more quickly than it goes out until the whole farm is paid for, but what does it profit if there are none of our own to enjoy it with us, and no one to receive it as a sacred inheritance when we are gone? As a class, farmers' wives identify themselves more closely with their husbands' financial interests than any other class of women. They are ing to work hard and sacrince inemselves to help to buy a home and to edĂșcate their children. They feel that if they cannot earn money they can at least save it. It becomes a problem sometimes how to steer between legitimate thrift on the one hand and unnecessary economy on the other. Sometimes a woman works so hard in trying to increase the bank account that she ruins, not only her physical health, but her disposition as well. A nervous, worn-out, fretful woman is not a fit associate, even on hygienic grounds, for a sensitive, impressionable child, who reflects the passing moods of those about him as in a looking-glass. If it is a question then of bank accounts, immaculate closets and well-nlled storerooms on the one hand, and a bright, cheerful mother on the other, I would unhesitatingly choose the latter. The children whose mothers have not time to pet them are to be pited. To amuse the baby and to romp with it is sometimes quite as much a religious duty as to pray for it.

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Ann Arbor Register