Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-04
Youthful Dislike ofFarm,ng-ravor-

able Comparisons.
1t is no use Disgusting the fact. Farm
work is not popular with either the
young men or young women in farmers
families. Many a farmer who is getting
old sees with a vague dread of an APP
preaching calamity the silver threads
~streaking his loved and faithful compan-
IONS hair, as the aged pair sit alone in
the long evenings, thinking sadly of
their son who is in the city, and of their
daughter who is also far away. They
realize, too, that new tastes and new de-
sires and hopes have ~enstranged their
children from the farm and the home
stead, the memories of which .cling and
Irvine around their own hearts and
bind their affections to the place,
en- every foot of which there is some
work or improvement done by their
own handsome tree planted, some
waste reclaimed, some building arranged
and now all must go by and by into
the hands of strangers who will tear
down what has been built up with SO
much pains and has been tended with
so much loving care. IL thou
sands of farln-houses such cases as this
may be met with, and they are very sad
to one who knows how it IS himself.
To know that one has some compan-
ions in his misery is supposed to be a
consolation. If this is SO, We in Ameri-
ca may look across the Atlantic and take
comfort to see the same thing going on
are mourning because their BOYS are
abandoning their homes and becoming
cooks and Wallets and shop men, and the
| girls become nurses or mattresses and
stand behind the shop counters, as they
do here. And German and Italian i'm
migrants work en- the farms and in
the vineyards, and when the old farm
ers die these newcomers boy the land
| which the Young men and women think
to be below their notice.
But there is still more consolation,
and that of a more solid kind, in consid-
ering the condition of English farmers
and comparing them with ours. AS
compared with the average English
farmer, an American literally and posi-.
lively rolls in wealth and lives in lux
ury. Think Of it! Here is a statement
which l read in an English paper
"Large quantities Of beef are used in
London for making beef tea for the hos
pitfalls. The waste beef, dry and striney
as rope-yarn, and about as indigestjble,
has been sold for feeding pigs. But a
vicar of a church in Essex writes that
this beef is thought to be delicious by
the farming population in his vicinity
aed they are anxious to obtain it. He
has made arrangements to have this
beef sent from London to feed the poor
creatures who would otherwise never
taste meat!!" We have all read of the
poor young man "who filled his belly
with the husks which the swine did
eat" Here is a modern instance of the
could tend to make al
American farmer and his children cor
tented with their lot, in which they en-
have to work very hard for it, either
such a fact as this should do it, "Bu
farm work is SO disagreeable, so dirty
makes the hands so hard; and one mus
wearsuch coarse clothes aboutit." Well
every one to his taste. l would rather
put a hard-skinned hand, soiled if yol
like, into the pocket Of a pair of coars,
homespun trousers and pull out a well
filled wallet. and lie down at night unde:
my own roof. than jingle a dozen t'nick
les' in the barren pockets of a city
made suit and know it is all that is left
after paying a weeks board in a frows,
city boarding house, with nothing owe
my head of my own but a shiny silk hat
which has just been ''ironed while yol
wait" tor2 % cents to make tlook as good a
new. Solid comfort is worth good deal
but somehow or other sentiment some
times turns solid comfort to misery, anc
makes q false and barren show seem t,
be the very height of enjoyment.-Nev
York Times.