The Newtown bee., 1896-08-21
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has been started. Singing is taught ant a band has becn formed.
 But the question ia, will it pay? Th' answer depends on the boy and girl. l he can spare the time, is iu earnest foi farm work and is ordinarily intelligent there would seem to be no room to doubt If he is getting along in years and is anx joua to he accommodating wealth, then the question is a wider one and we may aek, Does any education at all pay? Who can noiut t0 dollar that he has made be- op'1. a Ho ~tY7iad rrqnm4r ar history or ovoo ,o+dt~,e Tho~r bqro hoon woalthv rr.n ,vho could not read nor write. Voo'd j+ nat nav ho=t for boy to work -rorJora'e'v Of cnur7o-erom his earliest ~oa'-. and 7evo hja oar jngs? I should ao=itotc to aar thao k wcu1d not, if the Gnorrlal ieeu" onjv ja pressed. Az here, -o ta rp7o of rn agricultural education. o,o must ta'so b~oednr view of succoss. Tornv rs mt everything in lifo-fhough 't is in thr coming camuajgn. That which l broqdcne and dcepona and makes 8 man satisfied with living is highly desirable. Farm life is often too narrow:
 "I,ow wcart'y thc grind ot foil goes on
 i Whrr" love ;z wartia4z how the eye and ear i And heart arc -tarv"l amidst the pIcntitudr Of NaIur" and now hard and coIorless
 Is lie without au "tmoerhern "
 Eaucatjon ad39 interest, makes your farn, work agreeable. Itquicbcns obser- vation and opens to you fields of study and thought, Our Connecticut artist, William HamUton Gibson, had this keen observation and interest in nature. 9th ars have spent their lives in study of flowers, or insects or nature. In the fiold,os you walk along the path, a swarm of bugs upriscs, in whose flying and oveathing and changing from one form 10 another we should learn to see the woraj0g7 of an ali k6oWing mind. Said scientist 7on.& years ago: "You hold in Jour hand a sod Of clover and observe it. ~>iancr r,u. u- of some of the processes by which lhe ma.st soil is carried through :be srem, 1izesf"f. in the leaves and de- posted ia the Lodg Of the plant. But fh"rc u12 orlsc p5oecs-es going on which we do not l."o":, o~ca which some day may c@urc~o tae life oi the human race. To ll&ata ta&c n1trogen from the air> If rot. vbat shall we do when all our avail able utsrn&oncus compounds have given ur their ntrrogcn and there is none fur lhor for plant food 7" In similar mood Hcnnyson says:
 "Tlowor in the crounicd wall,
 Couidl know thee,
 hat thou art,
 Aul all ih0uRIt.
 Then holld know what God is." Farm life should be broadcned Our homes should become:
 "Thc honest uGs ot land Whcr" ~Io1" wisely wills auH acts may dwell Al >i"; "'d In~Z.var. in broud.acrcd -tuto, WltA h"puy, art, ta4t', culture. books toluako l IIl7 h"'lr" 'ri@nro richer thun lie nf t1lr r"l" tn fn, bulnu ot old time" The c.nrs" If stuairs for girls is the i same as for haya except that domestic -c.o.rn i~ aaLeu it. place of agriculture nd veterinary srjenco, The college of . tors Sood adu1atiau to wo,uen and 1 prar..>a one a. tre same time. Good 1 cooking i- sh@ f5ual4.ion If a happy ! ,vmi4 fa-L .:s lEo f.rmcr is Of tie stabll- ! l.y for q nation. Cooking cuaccrns not 1 oaly the pocketbooh but also tue health l and morals, "E~vcr ak favor Of Il l nurgry man" ia d New Jersey motto. ] would add anothgr, 'Gs is sin to eat heavy pie crust.~ The emphasis ofa girls edu- cation should be placed on the intellectu- 1 al and on the aeethetic. The St0rrs' col 1 Iege meets the demand. Her life will be happier, mere social, more helpful to | others. "Flowers spring to blossom where she walks 1
 The careful ways of duty"
 "'Twcra well, thought l, if often
 To rugged turmIife came the gift
 To hnrmonize and soften;
 If more and more We found the troth
 Ol fact ant fancy pIightcd,
 And cultures charm and lubor's strength
 In rural homes united;
 The simple life, the homely hearth,
 W tth beauty sphere surrounding,
 And blessing toll where toll abounds
 With graccs more pboundiug."