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A MODERN FABLE(?)

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 20, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 3.

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A MODERN FABLE(?)

A CERTAIN farmer, imagining that he would make money out of it, married him a wife. Then he caused her to do the cooking and washing for a half dozen hired hands. He also referred to her the small jobs, like cutting wood, milking the cows, herding the hogs, and tending the poultry. This farmer made money. But one of his boys went to Texas, and one went to the penitentiary, and his girl ran away with a man who peddled groceries. His useful wife has a front room in the insane asylum, and there is a place prepared for the farmer to which he will shortly go. This story plainly teaches that a farmer should be careful when he gets married.—Topeka Capital.