The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-09-23
THE SUMMER VACATION.
1t Affects Education and 1t Tends to
EuualiZe Wages.

1t Affects Education and 1t Tends to
Equalize Wages.
do not know that an effect of sum.
mer migration on the country school is
often observable. Exceptional instances
exist, and cases may be numerous The
increasing disposition of families to
prolong their stay in the country be-
yond the limits of the city school vaca-
tion suggests that the time may not be
far distant when those who control the
village schools will adjust the terms and
studies so as to enable children from the
city to continue work during portion
of their stay. The similarity of courses
in all graded schools favors this
transfer, and by painstalsing a fair
adjustment might be reached. This
would take away from many city fam
lilies chief objection to prolong their
sojourn, and would result in a positive
benefit to the inhabitants. Lacking
some such arrangement the migratory
habit must soon lead to the establish
| ment of private schools in some dis
tricts to accommodate temporary resi-
dents.
We need not enumerate the occupa
tions benefited by migration which
calls into its service well-nigh every
trade and handicraft The rural mar
ket for labor is perceptibly strength
ened by this cause, and the variety of
e,nployments is increased. Prepare.
tions must be made for guests. Hotels
must be built, with their appendages
of barns and small cottages. Farm
houses must be enlarged and fitted
with convenicnces. To this is to be
added the buildings of country seats
on grand scale, the erection of mod
est cottages, the putting up of perma-
nent camps, the building of boats, the
manufacture of sportsmen's outfits.
Occupation is thus furnished to labor
crs, many of whom, but for these in
dustries, would be compelled to seek
employment in larger towns and cities.
Household servants are secured with
increased difficulty throughout those
regions toward which the tide of travel
sets. Farm help is interfered with and
commands higher price. The laying
out of estates frequently involves the
purchase of hundreds of acres and the
employment of hundreds of hands dur
ing term of years in the erection o.
houses and barns, as we'll as ii
grading, draining, road making
gardening, and all the worl
of great establishment. After thi!
initial labor is performed, the main
tenance of such an estate furnishes per
manent occupation for a large company
The effect of this is felt over the sur
rounding country in the greater diff
Guilty of securing laborers, especially il
the buster seasons of the year. Wher,
operations are less conspicuousl,
centered on a single country seat the.
may be equally influential, because o
the employment of correspondent,
amount of labor at numerous scatter
ing points. A not inconsiderable in
fluence is in these ways exerted on TIN
wage question. Any support given t.
labor in the country tends to equaliz
wages and to prevent the concentration
of work people in the great centers O
population.
The amount of taxable property il
the country towns is largely Increase
by these activities, and in many case
the price of land is measurably er
HANGED. A change is already observa
bic in the habits of those who annual
seek the country. The period of thei
stay is gradually lengthening. Boarder
come early and remain till late in au
tumn. Owners of country homes leav
the city sooner each year and linger a
long as possible. There is an increas
ing disposition to spend the autumna
months in the seclusion and amid tn
sp1endors of the country. People ar
beginning to talk of Christmas a
the proper time to return to the city
Many houses are kept open all winte
with view to possible occupancy whe
sleighing and other winter pleasure
are at their height. Country life is a
serting its charms as compared wit
life in the city. The time seems to /
approaching when an increased numbe
of people will regard themselves ;
permanently domiciled in the countr.
and as visitors to the town only for til
season of social gayety which will il
tervene between Christmas and Len
The Importance of this inclination t.
ward domicile can hardly be everest
mated.-Century.