St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-11
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Needed to Keep Up the Health,

Needed to Keep Up the Healthy
Social Circulation on the Farm.
Special Letter to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, Feb. 1.-The pleas
ant winter weather, OF some other
cause, has set young feet dancing all
over the country round about this place,
if reports are true. And this is as it
should be, although many object to
such pastime: yet l, for one, ,osay, as
did one of ancient times. ''There's Il
time for all things" and among the
things mentioned in holy writ is "a
time to dance.''
And am firm believer in the open
ing of doors for the little informal
neighbOrhood dances among the young
people in country homes. 1t provides
amusement and makes it more pleasant
for them. and it takes away the awk-
wardness so often apparent in the
young people that are shut up at home
in the farm houses far from the social
pleasures of town life.
Farmers having large farms and
young people should see the necessity
of their children in such cases, and do
what they can to make their children
love the farm life, and not deprive them
of any such simple pleasure as small
parties and dancing at home. Many
boy has left the farm and pOne-Where?
Not one in twenty of them is kept away
from all the associations that lead down
to death. All are more or less tainted
with the MANY evils they meet Oh the
highways and byways of town life, and
often the boy leaves the farm without
any settled purpose as to his own future
movements when he has reached the
Mecca of his desire. 1t is simply to get
away from the dull life of the farm, the
same unyarying life, without any OF the
real brightness that should make the
farm life the most delightful life to live
on this earth, instead of being the most
dull and dreary, as 1t often appears to
be. The many
RECRUITS FOR TOWN LIFE
are often from the country, and many,
very many, are lost TO all that is good
in the life they live. They 60 to swell
the throng that gDeS down to the moral
depths that lead down to deep disgrace
and ignominious death.
If any one will sit down and think
over all the past and single out the
young men they have known that left
their fathers farm to go into some call
ing in town. and then trace their after
life, it wilt. perhaps, surprise them to
see how very few succeeded and how
many failed beyond any redemption for
soul or body from the very cesspools- of
the large towns and cities where all
manner of crimes lurk and lure the TIN
wary and unsophisticated child from the
country that has so little knowledge of
what he may encounter in the life that
seems to have all the pleasure that earth
contains. No money invested for our
children will give them half the pleasure
in future years that can be extracted
from the memory of these inexpensive
gatherings that do SO much to break
up the dark monOtony of some farmers
homes during the winters of our beau
tifuI and bountiful Northwest. with
speeding wild winds, and also speedy
steeds that keep, or try to keep. pace
with the wind that Whlrls the snow
over the plains and sends the blood of
our young people coursing swiftly
through their veins, as if they, too,
must be up and away in the mad race of
the elements of the air. Did you ever
think how the young people around
might be affected by the very air
they breathe every day that passes.
adding to the growing thought that
farm life may not he the same to your
boys that it is to you? You may be very
tired of the rush and rumble of the
town and rejoice in your quiet, but
what of your boys?
Mrs, MARTHA CRAEDAIL.