Dear Farm Women

For several years I have been talking and talking, hearing no reply, until I came to feel that no one was listening to me. And to find that you are really there and will answer back is truly delightful.

Thank you all so much for the kind things you have said about my department. To know that I have helped you a little, or made a day brighter, will make my own work easier and cause the sun to shine on the dark days, for we all have them.

'Tis then a little place of sunshine, in the heart, helps mightily. And there is nothing that puts so much brightness there as having helped someone else.

Mrs. A. J. Wilder

Mrs. A.J. Wilder. "Dear Farm Women." Missouri Ruralist (January 5, 1921): 7.  CLICK HERE to see this article as it originally appeared in the Missouri Ruralist.

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