. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. cks. Gorgeous bigyoung men were in military uniforms and in splen-did leisure, disdaining worn and callous old wom-en whose labor in the fields makes the elegant leis-ure of the soldier possible. We saw a great barnin a farming village; there were two threshing floorsin the barn, each floor was covered with sheaves ofbright, yellow rye; two men facing two women, allwith flails, beat the sheaves tremendously and inperfect time and accord., Old as I am I had neverseen this before, though my father had flails, care-fully
. In foreign fields; sketches of travel in South America and western Europe. cks. Gorgeous bigyoung men were in military uniforms and in splen-did leisure, disdaining worn and callous old wom-en whose labor in the fields makes the elegant leis-ure of the soldier possible. We saw a great barnin a farming village; there were two threshing floorsin the barn, each floor was covered with sheaves ofbright, yellow rye; two men facing two women, allwith flails, beat the sheaves tremendously and inperfect time and accord., Old as I am I had neverseen this before, though my father had flails, care-fully preserved, when I was a boy. I should have TRAVEL SKETCHES BY JOS. E. WING 533 thought this process too costly in labor even forGermany. Near by stood a modern threshing ma-chine. Evidently human labor is still sometimesconsidered cheaper than steam. What splendid, pa-tient, heroic, cheerful, manly women! A FARMYARD IN SAXONY. A farmyard (in Saxony) consists of a court of250 feet in diameter; the yard is faced on each sideby great buildings, the residence at the top, the. ON THE KINGS FARM, SAXONY. stables at the sides. The stables are stone-builtand tiled; the courts are carefully paved with enormous tiled roofs have little windows likegreat eyes. In the dark, cool old sheds, sheep lieand cows stand at noontime, in clean straw. Thewomen of the fields come down the road as the noon- 534 IN FOREIGN FIELDS time bell rings; I note their calm, strong, confidentmarch. They are unashamed and unafraid; theirbodies are so perfect in physique as to be a reproacheven to many American men. A farm lass washesher feet in the watering trough. Women help vigor-ously to load carts with manure; a man superintendsand aids a little. For their labor they receive twenty-five to forty cents a day, with food. Men are farbetter paid, they get as much as $75 by the year,with food, and for harvest time or for shorter spellsas much as sixty-four cents per day. Many of thelaborers are Poles; la
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