tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post6308423761394333905..comments2024-03-27T17:31:58.315-07:00Comments on Home Living: Women PlowingLydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-44100425560353086032011-03-04T09:28:32.555-08:002011-03-04T09:28:32.555-08:00You might also practice your budgeting skills and ...You might also practice your budgeting skills and cooking skills by creating nice home made lunches for yourself and taking them to work in something like a small picnic basket. I think you could also hand make gifts for co-workers, even if they are just antiques re-painted or embellished...i am sure you will hear things like, "I wonder what Sally is going to give us this year. It will Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-9122658961229429202011-03-03T07:56:38.826-08:002011-03-03T07:56:38.826-08:00Dear Lady Lydia,
Thank you for your encouraging r...Dear Lady Lydia,<br /><br />Thank you for your encouraging reply. I'm going to do it! I've always worn my hair long, but now I'm inspired to wear more if not all skirts to the office. <br />And first thing tomorrow, I'll put some homey knick-knacks and decoration on my office desk. Come to think I have some old colorful, flower-patterned mismatch cups that would serve nicely as Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-45276590088281831712011-03-02T10:48:00.180-08:002011-03-02T10:48:00.180-08:00Ira,
I have always said the best thing to do in a...Ira,<br /><br />I have always said the best thing to do in a situation that is not quite the best, is to get as close to the model as you can. A girl who has been put into schools or college can take her sewing or her knitting with her and can dress femininely, grow her hair out, and not look like the working girl. Take some books on the bus about homemaking or cooking or sewing. On week nights Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-90213640308950297002011-03-02T04:48:23.882-08:002011-03-02T04:48:23.882-08:00Dear Lady Lydia,
Your blog inspired me yet also ...Dear Lady Lydia, <br /><br />Your blog inspired me yet also make me sad. I'm 40 years old, never married, and live alone. I don't have any family left so I'm supporting myself by working an office job as an Office Manager. I regret to say that my domestic and crafting skill is almost none, though I've learned a bit in the past several years, so making money from home from crafts Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-75940424716630585852011-02-20T11:47:42.798-08:002011-02-20T11:47:42.798-08:00I remember reading in the Little House on the Prai...I remember reading in the Little House on the Prairie books that it was considered unusual for Laura to work beside her father in the fields temporarily -- only foreigners allowed their women to work in the fields back then, not Americans. Laura begged her family to allow her to help her father (they hand no sons) and she was allowed to (at least in the books), but it was considered unusual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-649375994230199002011-02-16T20:09:59.161-08:002011-02-16T20:09:59.161-08:00Lydia,
I think the feminist spirit is the thing we...Lydia,<br />I think the feminist spirit is the thing we need to guard against. I have earned money from home with a homemaking spirit and I like it.<br /><br /> I want to be on guard not to encourage anyone to have a feminist spirit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-73913132872224594462011-02-16T11:57:17.615-08:002011-02-16T11:57:17.615-08:00Laura Ingalls Wilders wrote in The Long Winter abo...Laura Ingalls Wilders wrote in The Long Winter about helping her father with the haying in the fields in South Dakota in the 1880's. Pa didn't have enough money to hire workers and there were too few other homesteaders to help. Ma agreed to Laura's helping, but this was her view: "She did not like to see women working in the fields. Only foreigners did that. Ma and her girlsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-39844405822486537762011-02-16T09:27:37.691-08:002011-02-16T09:27:37.691-08:00It is worth reading Alexis de Tocqueville for the ...It is worth reading Alexis de Tocqueville for the personal observations and experiences he had in the 1830's. He said the women were home, and even the poor women were occupied at home. False teachers try to tell people that women who were poor had to work, but it is not true. Women have always had a choice. What people overlook are the religious people in any era who quietly obeyed the Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-47797783670732258342011-02-15T11:42:00.976-08:002011-02-15T11:42:00.976-08:00I can really see how important it is for homemaker...I can really see how important it is for homemakers to avoid getting caught up in earning money. It takes away your concentration of home keeping and you lose your eye for details, skimming over your work so you can get your selling done. I believe most women did work on farms, but not as their role. They were mostly in the house doing the laundry and dishes and supervising the children. I dont Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-57216001656915209082011-02-14T13:18:49.758-08:002011-02-14T13:18:49.758-08:00Lydia,
Spreading the rumor that women of the 1800...Lydia,<br /><br />Spreading the rumor that women of the 1800's were oppressed and had to work in fields and such is nothing more than attempt to get more women to hate the era completely enough that they will not want to adopt any part of it in their lives, such as the family structure with the parents in control and the children honoring them, and the women minding the home and seeing to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-68560680049387722022011-02-14T08:25:54.289-08:002011-02-14T08:25:54.289-08:00Julia, I agree. Too much is attributed to the ordi...Julia, I agree. Too much is attributed to the ordinary women of the past: they are touted as being in the field all day every day, all year, and yet they sewed everything, cooked everything, grew their own vegetables for the table, looked after the house, etc. How in the world could they do that if they were out in the field all day. The paintings that I often show here from the 18th century Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-69275941431061486052011-02-14T07:30:22.840-08:002011-02-14T07:30:22.840-08:00The thing I don't understand about the theory ...The thing I don't understand about the theory that women plowed all day is, when would they have had the time? They cooked three large meals a day, from scratch. They did all laundry by hand. For those with a large family, that would be an all-day affair. Once or twice a week they would spend the day making bread, which requires diligence and patience and a lot of attention. Many of the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-12962900005073736312011-02-12T21:43:26.361-08:002011-02-12T21:43:26.361-08:00Emmarinda,
I was agreeing with you.
There is a ne...Emmarinda,<br /><br />I was agreeing with you.<br />There is a new religious slant to women working. When people cant get women to get away from the Biblical role, they re-invent it to mean that all women worked all day in the fields.<br /><br />I do understand that most women were rural, necessitating that they were in the fields, but is this what modernists think women are for--to work in the Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-39516024104318191172011-02-12T21:12:14.871-08:002011-02-12T21:12:14.871-08:00Lydia, your last comment is exactly what I meant -...Lydia, your last comment is exactly what I meant - they might have been working but it was for their own families and almost all of it was considered the traditional woman's work. I hope you didn't think I was saying anything to the contrary.Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03009819584864535929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-38699414445598113252011-02-12T20:57:27.615-08:002011-02-12T20:57:27.615-08:00Ladies these days we can all plow with the tillers...Ladies these days we can all plow with the tillers that are available, but what I object to is the preaching that women always worked in the field, all day and every day. Where were their children and what was the husband doing? I may plough but it is for my own small garden, and I do get my hands dirty and enjoy working in the dirt. I posted my potato harvest last year and I enjoy that sort of Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-29350885893051908452011-02-12T17:30:30.561-08:002011-02-12T17:30:30.561-08:00Emmarinda pointed out that "We are either laz...Emmarinda pointed out that "We are either lazier, or too busy with the affairs and concerns of the outside world, including working outside the home. And lots of women do not cook at all or very little from scratch."<br /><br />That would an interesting comparison, the cooking output coming from today's expensive kitchens, with every possible electrical convenience, to the output Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-15973517858704597162011-02-12T12:31:50.355-08:002011-02-12T12:31:50.355-08:00Plowing the fields, indeed! I think people who say...Plowing the fields, indeed! I think people who say this have been too busy plowing their own fertile imaginations and producing yet another bumper crop of foolishness. It used to be that on the farm women would help their menfolk with whatever was the most important, so yes, in a pinch, they might be assisting at that kind of work. Mostly, however, they had enough to do, keeping their kitchen Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03009819584864535929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-69657453246926744222011-02-11T19:51:28.277-08:002011-02-11T19:51:28.277-08:00I wanted to comment about hair donation. If you we...I wanted to comment about hair donation. If you were thinking about cutting long hair because you were ready for a change or what-have-you, then I think it is wonderful to donate the hair to Locks of Love or another charity. However they need cash donations just as much as they need hair donations. In fact some charities that make wigs for cancer patients have had to sell the hair donated just toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-47292296677333054482011-02-11T15:09:10.871-08:002011-02-11T15:09:10.871-08:00Wonderful article dear Lydia. I really appreciate ...Wonderful article dear Lydia. I really appreciate the effort that goes into your writing. This (and the ladies' comments) are a real inspiration. Thank you so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-29276622896595101462011-02-11T12:01:30.955-08:002011-02-11T12:01:30.955-08:00Lady Lydia,
Another wonderful and encouraging pos...Lady Lydia,<br /><br />Another wonderful and encouraging post.<br /><br />Thank you!!!Far Above Rubieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05090466984173332753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-46212192566910798472011-02-11T07:41:21.484-08:002011-02-11T07:41:21.484-08:00Thanks for this great post! I love your passion f...Thanks for this great post! I love your passion for homemaking, I share that passion as well! There is nothing more disheartning than watching the young wives at my church having babies and staying in the workforce (and the ministry supports stay at home moms, and promotes that as the ideal, so these Moms have good examples, they just choose not to follow them). They are missing such precious Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01286418014358269661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-68254557567754462802011-02-11T05:19:22.667-08:002011-02-11T05:19:22.667-08:00WOW--I love this blog and the ladies who comment o...WOW--I love this blog and the ladies who comment on it! You make me think, Lady Lydia, and inspire me to dig deeper into the Bible for my guidance in my life, home and family.<br />In reference to the "My aunt did it this way," remark--I had to laugh, since my grandmother was a flapper during the 20s, but I just don't see myself in fringed dresses, rolled stockings and a pageboy, Mama Said Nohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17308677020217781633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-7203096002605741302011-02-10T21:29:16.632-08:002011-02-10T21:29:16.632-08:00That is a great book recommendation.
Other books...That is a great book recommendation. <br /><br />Other books worth reading online are "An English Woman in America" by Isabella A. Bird, "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville. <br /><br />For feminists, I would recommend "The Benevolence of Manners" by Linda Lichter, which compares the lives of women in Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-34148736361369287652011-02-10T21:01:38.147-08:002011-02-10T21:01:38.147-08:00If you google "Two Temples" by Hattie Vo...If you google "Two Temples" by Hattie Vose Hall, you will find a lovely poem along these lines. It is true that most of what I do, whether I do it well or not, may only be seen by God, or may not even be realized right now by those I am caring for - but they will know it some day, and God will know. Another beautiful poem I read tonight - "My Mother's Garden", by Alice E.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-76070289044325400442011-02-10T18:19:55.582-08:002011-02-10T18:19:55.582-08:00Mari,
Your statements are probably the best summa...Mari,<br /><br />Your statements are probably the best summary of the subject I was trying to explain: that people cannot accept women as homemakers unless they are producing like a factory, and making money off their talents. I do believe homeschool families have an obligation to teach their sons and daughters how to turn a skill into a profit, and I don't believe it is wrong for women to Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.com