Farmers’ Wives
Sir, —Mildred MCCaw sounds very disgruntled with her lot, assuming her lot is that of an “unhonoured, unpaid, and unsung member of the farming community.” Coming from a farming community myself, I say hats off to the farmers’ wives for all the extra chores they have to do (it was always Mum who was last up from the milking shed at night). It is stretching things a bit to say she is an unpaid servant of the State. It’s my guess that her own husband has gone off to this Lincoln conference, probably in a new car he won’t let her drive, and left her at home to do the chores and a chip on her shoulder about men in general, and farmers in particular. My advice is to take that egg money but of the old stone jar and have a shopping spree.—Yours etc., FARMER’S DAUGHTER. May 20, 1964.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30447, 22 May 1964, Page 12
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