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Editorial
April 17, 1925
Clinch Valley News
Tazewell, Jeffersonville, Tazewell County, Virginia
What is this article about?
The editorial urges women from town and country to visit each other frequently to build closer ties, reduce aloofness, and share in each other's lives. It advises on visit etiquette, avoiding Mondays and unannounced dinner times, and fondly recalls traditional all-day visits with sewing and meals.
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TOWN PEOPLE AND COUNTRY PEOPLE SHOULD VISIT.
We are sure that the women of the country will be glad to have their friends and acquaintances from town call to see them often—also the men. Life in the country is somewhat monotonous. There are few diversions from the ordinary humdrum rounds for the farm woman. This occasional visit from the town woman will be appreciated and highly profitable, too, as well. Of course, the visitor from town to the country home will leave her town and city airs behind her if she is a woman of sense. There should be a closer tie between the town and country, and no effective way to promote this better understanding and friendship than by an exchange of visits between the women of town and country. Also, the country women should visit their town sisters.
The women of both town and country will be glad to see each other in their homes. Get rid of this aloofness between town and country.
Our interests, our happiness, our wellbeing in every walk of life, is intimately connected.
Here is a suggestion however, as to your visit to your country sister: Don't go on Monday. Monday seems to be wash-day. Don't go about dinner time unless you give notice or are specially invited to dinner. Our mothers used to go early in the morning, take the children along and also their knitting or sewing, and "spend the day," and talk, sometimes they gossiped, nevertheless they visited, ate a big dinner and smoked their pipes in the kitchen after dinner, returning home in the afternoon in time to milk the cows and get supper. This was real life which should not have been all given up but, in some form or some degree, perpetuated.
We are sure that the women of the country will be glad to have their friends and acquaintances from town call to see them often—also the men. Life in the country is somewhat monotonous. There are few diversions from the ordinary humdrum rounds for the farm woman. This occasional visit from the town woman will be appreciated and highly profitable, too, as well. Of course, the visitor from town to the country home will leave her town and city airs behind her if she is a woman of sense. There should be a closer tie between the town and country, and no effective way to promote this better understanding and friendship than by an exchange of visits between the women of town and country. Also, the country women should visit their town sisters.
The women of both town and country will be glad to see each other in their homes. Get rid of this aloofness between town and country.
Our interests, our happiness, our wellbeing in every walk of life, is intimately connected.
Here is a suggestion however, as to your visit to your country sister: Don't go on Monday. Monday seems to be wash-day. Don't go about dinner time unless you give notice or are specially invited to dinner. Our mothers used to go early in the morning, take the children along and also their knitting or sewing, and "spend the day," and talk, sometimes they gossiped, nevertheless they visited, ate a big dinner and smoked their pipes in the kitchen after dinner, returning home in the afternoon in time to milk the cows and get supper. This was real life which should not have been all given up but, in some form or some degree, perpetuated.
What sub-type of article is it?
Social Reform
What keywords are associated?
Town Country Visits
Women Friendships
Social Ties
Rural Monotony
Visit Etiquette
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Promoting Mutual Visits Between Town And Country Women
Stance / Tone
Encouraging And Advisory
Key Arguments
Country Life Is Monotonous; Town Visits Provide Diversion And Profit
Visitors Should Leave City Airs Behind
Exchange Of Visits Promotes Understanding And Friendship
Eliminate Aloofness Between Town And Country
Interests And Wellbeing Are Interconnected
Avoid Visiting On Monday (Wash Day) Or Unannounced At Dinner Time
Recall Traditional All Day Visits With Sewing, Talking, Meals, And Evening Chores