New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-22
Recreation.
Ohio Farmer.

OQlO + lrmer.
Harvest is not the long, tedious, la
borious season it used to be. With.
mowers, reapers, self binders, and
horse hay-forks, and improved impli-
ments and machinery Of all descrlp.
tons, harvest time has been robbed
of it's terrors and reduced one half in
it's duration. This saving Of time
should give the farmer more rest,
more recreation, much more time to
study and plan, and add greatly to
his enjoyment OF life. That it does
not do this in so many cases is the re-
suit OF wrong management. In re-
cent trip to Northern Michigan we met
an Ohio farmer and his wife on tour
of recreation. We had met hundreds
Of ministers, lawyers, doctors and
business men at summer resorts and
on lines of travel, but farmer off on
a pleasure trip in midsummer with his
wife was such a rare thing that we
could not help expressing astonish-
nlent. "Oh," he said, 1--WE go every
summer, and have done SO for many
years A farmer has just as good a
right to a little rest and enjoyment as
other people,"
But they can't all afford it, was our
suggestion. Nonsense" he replied.
"1They think they can and with many
the wish is father to the thought. But
they can all afford a week or so OF
rest and recreation, some way. Many
don't want it, and many are so stu
ated that they can't we'll go away.
But sn nine cases out Of ten they could
change the situation. have a good,
trusty tenant living on my farm, and
q son and daughter at home, and we
feel content to stay away as long as we
desire. When we go home my son and :
daughter will take their vacation.
pat by q hundred dollars every year
for this purpose, and | think it we'll
spent in two weeks OF travel and change
/ OF scene"
| This farmer was well-to-do. I'm
| fortunately, sill farmers are not SO
fortunately situated. But none are
I so poor or So hard pushed that they
cannot afford 81 breathing spell, a
/ week or two. Of change and rest. A.
/ visit to friends or relatives, or to an
I attractive saammer resort, or one OF
I the extended excursion trips now so
I frequent, wilf afford the recreation
needed. The human system Will run
down and wear out under constant,
unremitting labor, and rest is the only
| way nature has provided for repair.
Thousands offarmers' wives are under,
Treatments, taking medicine daily, and
paying unnecessary doctor bills, when
their only malady is exhaustion, and
the only remedy is rest-ot badly and
mind. Use natures remedy and pre-
ventives OF what good is Life unless
we enjoy it? There are mary species
OF slavery, anc3 the majority
OF farmers are voluntary subjects
of One of them. The sooner they
emaneipate themselves ahe better.
ga months rest now viii add years
to your life," said physician to. a
farmers wife waom he was called. to
see, just after harves5, a few years
ago. ''I've nc, time to sest," she said,
ssThere is too, much to do" TONES
were prescribed, the worn-out frame
, partially braced up, and q few days
later she was as busy as ever with
the multiplicity OF household cares
Before SNOW fell sac was dead. The
physician told the writer that she wa:
!. worked to death, and added, ether,
> are a dozen others in my practic
following the same road"
7 Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensu
: But moody and duh melancholy,
kinsman togrim and comfortless despair
J. And at her heels II huge infectious troo
OF pale distemperatures and foes to Life