The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-01-22
Bay~ Black aAUGpT tea cures Con,tina,ion
GARDENING.

SaTueulng ana FARMING. mat man
or woman is to be pitied who re-
CARDS the means Of mere TODD or
money making. OF course primari-
ly, the object of such work is to make
money, or its equivalent tor money,
as it is an essential thing to have.
Still outside of all pecuniary consid>
erations, the lover IF nature must
find genuine pleasure in the tilling
OF the soil whether the results come
up 70 his or her anticipations or not.
There is no other occupation on the
face of the earth that affords more
OF true pleasure and intellectual
diversion along with healthy physi-
cal effort than gardening as farming
does, and especially the former.
Despite the curse pronounced upon
the cultivation of the soil il still
remains for man and gentle woman,
too, to obtain the purest of human
pleasures from its culture for the
curse was not Of such nature as to
produce either physical or mental
Darm to those who engaged in its
cultivation. 1t merely produced
conditions that rendered necessary
a constant oversight of crops and
fields and proper care in the sowing
and dressing of them, and these
conditions enforce the essential ae-
tlvlty for a successful contest with
the weeds and briars and other
causes initiating against the desired
success. And this in turn, brings
health and mental peace and rest,
physical strength and refreshing
repose. The soil cure was intended
to produce manifold blessings, and
it has not failed Of its intentions
these many centuries. Only to the
INDECENT and slothful is the curse
traughs with real harm. To those
in sympathy with nature, in all her
worksand various moods, it is full
of blessings-in their consequences
too many to be readily enumerated.
even if we entered into an appre.
citation OF their full extent. The
pleasures OF rural life have been
sung b. poets iunum cradle; they
have been felt by millions more in
every age and cline. Poets, priests,
philosophers, statesmen, artists, mu-
sicians, all have paid their tribute
to the delights of field and garden
and forest in every age. Why should
the mediocre man OF to day ignore
and contemn the most pleasurable
healthgiving occupation to be en-
gagged in under the sun? Why
should young men of the day shrink
away from the noblest of all employ
ments and give the preference to
poorly paid clerkships in the various
departments of commerce, where
the labor is of far more trying and
combining nature than that involved
in the cultivation of garden, field
and orchard ? A simple clerkship,
to be sure, requires no capital, and
many are led to accept such and
exc out bare living because
such employment is regarded as
more respectable than laboring in
the fields. To many it is not more
remunerative, but is "more respect
able" -allows if it does not really
require, the daily wearing of better
clothes, the indulgence in social
recreation and pleasures much be-
yond what most country life war.
rants or affords, perhaps. To those
who have genius for it trade offers
a speedier fortune than farming
usually offers, but years of devotion
to it finally brings longing to re-
sumo or retire to the occupations of
rural life. However much the
farming interest may undergo peri
DDS of depression, it is an occupation
that cannot be forsaken by all. The
larger majority of 0 our people
are forced to accept it as their &C.
cupation. Trade cannot provide
for all; it enriches but a small
percentage ofthose who engage in
it. The varying occupation of farm