Daily Republican., 1884-01-29
HOW TO SECURE A LIVING.
THE ADVANTAGES OF LIFE IN
THE COUNTRY com PARED
WITH THE CITY.


There are III every city hundreds OF
persons that are toiling day after day,
and year after year for bare snbsist-
ence for themselves and families, and
during dull season, when work is
scarce and business dull, they fire.
qnently spend weeks in idleness and
contract debts that 1t takes months OF
toll ,and in many cases privation to pay.
| They msnage In some way TO live
and raise their families, bnt their chit
drsn are frequently obliged to leave
school, before their education is half
complete, to help earn the living for
the younger members Of the family.
This fact can be xemplided by insert
ing notice in a paper Of boy wan
ted, and then question the applicants.
But while this state of things exist in
| the cities, there is not season passes
the scarcity of the hands to assist in
planting the crops or gathering them
after they have ripened.
Indeed 80 great has this want become,
that right here in Delaware it is pro-
posed to bring immigrants from En-
rope to supply the farm labor, and seve.
raj public spirited. citizens of Kent
County nave already imported families
Of Germans for that purpose. The
question arises whether it is
really wise feature of poll.
ticaI econony to bring these
strangers here, when there are so
many even in Wilmington who, if the
matter was only placed before them in
the proper light and fully explained,
could be induced to leave their misera.
BILE places of abode in the city, for good
comfortable homes in the country.
If some of those residing on the PENN
sula, and owning large farms and
orchards would offer the inducement of
a house and piece Of ground, with en-
ployment Oh their places part Of the
year, he probabilities are that many of
them would have their wants supplied
without going further than this city.
On the other hand, how much better 1t
would be for many toilers If such an
offer were made to accept it there are
many who are now, TO use a homely
phrase, living from hand to mouth, who
could, In few years, own their homes,
and when winter approached, find
themselves provided wi a sufficiency |
to insure them every comfort during its
continuance.
The wages earned by the father and !
elder children, if any, would keep the
family, and then if patch at home
were planted in vegetables it wouldhelp |
to keep the pot boiling and the wolf
from the door. It would not be long un-
I'll hog or so could be procured, and |
the cost Of their keep during the sum
mer and early fall would never be felt,
and if proper economy were exercised |
during the cropp ng season when work
il plenty there would be No difficulty
experienced in having enough laid by
to nay for the corn to fatten them.
Chickens could also he kept, and
prove source of profit, besides furn
ishinga supply Of fresh eggs for the
family and an occasional change of
diet. If at the end of year tile imni
grant should find himself able to purch-
ase and keep cow, he would indeed be
we'll off as compared with the lite he
spentin the city.
Industry, combined with economy,
would each year gather more comforts
around the home, and the time would
come when family thus situated
would wonder that they had spent so
many years of their life in the over
crowded city, when there WAS not ouly
\ better living but competence in the
that only needed energy and
perseverance for them TO attain.