The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-09-21
At the Fair.

There Is but one period of the year
and but one place that a peron can
see such mixed gathering OF the
people, representative of every class
of society, ahd that is at the Annual
Fair. Other meetings call together
but part; but at the fair the student
of human nature and human life, and
of the kind of civilization that is devel-
oped from the soil and climate of rural
life, can see and study and cannot bat
admire the whole. The various church
associations enable the student TO
study the official church life, the bust
ness associations enable him to study
the business life, the political conyen-
tions-bringing together as they do
some of the noblest men in the State,
and some of the most designing and
INSCRIPTIONS enables him to study
the political life, but the Fair, and
that alone, enables him to study the
whole life of the people. The politi-
clan is there, and may be detected at
once by the shrewd observer; the bust
ness man is there with his prompt,
brisk, and direct ways and is easy dis
cernible; the preacher is there and
finds it one of the best places to study
human nature; the farmers are there,
some intent on study, forming their
ideal COW, pig, or horse, carrying in
their minds eye their stock at home
and comparing what they see with
what they have, others studying grains
and grasses and fruits, and others still
bent on sightseeing and pleasure
taking day or two of well earned
rest and recreation. His good wife il
there also, as she ought to be, for who
is more worthy of the opportunity for
rest and recreation? Her sharpehed
eyes seeing many things her husband
misses.
The sons are there, and if not
should be, seeing with the clear oper
vision of youth, undimmed by prelude,
or tradition, many things the fathel
cannot see or will not see, and resolv
ing that when they come to farm fo
themselves the scrub must go; tn,
daughters, too. or if not, they are no
we'll treated, feasting their eyes with
the beautiful in the animal forms, il
the flowers or in paintings or embroid
cry, and altogether full day at the
Fair is vision worth seeing and {
treat to be desired and remembered.
With many farmers the fair is simp
ly great holiday recreation, givinl
them the opportunity to break away
from the dull routine of the farm ani
see about them, to see their friend
and acquaintances who live at dis
tance, and in general have goo,
time. There is, however, every yea
an increasing number, who while no
forgetting the recreation, combine will
it hard study. They regard the Fai
as a great school in which they cal
study the animal forms, and by com
pairing this breed with that, and thi
herd with that, and this individua
with that in each herd, form both al
ideal type when they aim to realize il
their own herd, and settle down OF
lines of breeding and methods of feed
ing that will enable them to realiz
that ideal. This is but one of tn
thousand things to be learned at tn
fair. The fair is great OBJECT lesson
kindergarten, and college and univer
sity all in one, to the man who ha
"eyes to see," and sears to hear.
| TIL therefore,, go to the fair and profit b.
the examples that are about you il
such profusion.