St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-11
A PICTUREsQE VIEW
Of Farm, Which Was Full of
Beauty Because in Keeping
With Nature.


Beauty Because in Keeping
With Nature.
Letter to the Globe
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, June 5.--There is
picturesque view of farm that / saw
down by Root river a year ago last Sep
TENDER which is and will be reme.n-
bered as long as memory lasts with me.
L say "a farm" when in reality do not
know where that part of the place was,
but the house was there at the foot of
Fountain RIDGE" and had all the ap-
pearances of being farmers home. 1t
was beautiful. What if the fence was
all away and the house of the early
primitive formation, and the bluff with
its tumble-down rock sides back of it?
Why was it beautiful? Because it was
all in keeping with nature, and the ex-
IRENE neatneSs of the whole scene; the
thick, short grass in front creeping
down to the very edge of the river; and
the Woodpile was so prim; and the ak,
saw and sawbuck stood all In close
proximity, everything in its place,
everything kept in its place. And the
stiffness of that Sabbath day reigned
over all. 1t was verltable picture of
still life. The whole landscape was
worth coming to Minnesota to see. Even
two little mites of humanity playing I'M
der three young oak trees made no noise.
Going along the road that led down the
bluff, the place was not in view, and
there appeared no sign of a residence
about there. The scene was one of wild
beauty, but that spot once seen would
never be forgotten by lover of nature;
and one might ask why not have all
farmers homes veritable
LIVING PICTURE?
Something has prevented all this be-
ing done, Farming is not all mental,
nor should it be made life of drudgerv,
nor be allowed to absorb all our
thoughts and all our waking hours be
hours of toll for the wherewithal to live,
as some seem to think farm life is
merely state of existence to be dug
out of Mother Earth. In these days
that we are living in life has its de-
mandS, and we must meet them like
men and women who live to do, and
dare study nature and learn her ways
instead of the plOdding ways the farm
ers OF We Olden times, to whom farming
was of little or no consequence at all.
just enough to transact about all the
business of selling what they had to sell
off from the farm, and any education
beyond that was time wasted and money
whatever, so the boys learned nothing,
and frequently not that, and the daugf-
tiers of the household hardly learned any
thing but the homework. In fact, l re-
member hearing good old farmer say,
long years ago, that 'larnin' was no use
to gals" But l noticed that his ''gals"
were pretty we'll acquainted with the
three RS, or "'reading, 'riting and 'rith-
metic." All! my farmer friend, am
afraid you will wake up some day and
find yourself and your sons and daugh-
tiers away back behind the times if you
are not careful, You may have wealth
then, but that will not be all you and
yours will need to land you among the
kings and queens of this American ma
ton. have wandered far from the sub
ject l was going to treat of, and think 1
have written some sharp words, but l
do feel as if could not use words sharp
enough to impress upon the minds of
some people the truth of learning and
working with the laws of nature on the
farm, and the necessity of a radical
change in the farmers life. After all,
feel like talking to you longer on this
same subject.
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.