The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-07-19
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The Girl on the Farm.

The agricultural papers TEEN with
articles on How to Keep the Boys on
the Farm" but seldom word about
the girls. Now, we could not think of
doing without the boys. Bless the
dear, noisy boys Their CHEEKY, airy
whistle is the best antidote for the blues
one can take The girls, precious
jewels, are just as essential to farm
life as the boys, and farm life is just as
necessar, to their full and evenly bal
anced development, minds and bodies,
as they to farm life. and where they are
not happy and contented in their farm
home, something is radically wrong
somewhere. If the father is continu-
ally growing about the mud or dust.
the heat or cold. the tariff. low prices.
poor crops. the mother about farm
drudgery .deprivationsl lack of congenial
society. need We wonder that children
growing up in such an atmosphere will
long for wider fields. to know and be
known. to meet people of note to listen
to the grand flow of eloquence from the
pulpit OF rostrum: are anxious to flee
from evils they know to those they
know not: My heart aches for children
of such homes. The very Joys of life
are dashed aside. and they peer into
the dim future with distorted vision
and imagine they see honor. success
and happiness. Which. when they meet,
IS only the blank despair Of disappoint-
Ment.
Parents. pause and consider tie obi
CATIONS you are under to your children.
This debt cannot be paid with broad
acres OF many dollars. \ contented
spirit, well balanced mind. a strong
constitution. helpful hands. temperate
habits, honor. love and unselfishness, are
the blrthrlghts of every child. Just so
tar as they fall short of this standard
you have failed to start them Alright in
this world. When you fail to teach
them. 10y precept and practice, these holy
principles. yop rob Your children of
that priceless pearl.
1 would be tie last person to dlscOUr-
age amy laudaDle ambition but it is
with genuine sorrow | hear a little girl
lament the ''narrowness of farm life
and express desire for ''city or town
advantages. and a determination to
seek employment there. TO such | say,
Don't. my dear" Where one, who has
lett the farm, succeeded. scores have
failed. Many without sufficient forti-
tu0e 20 return to the farm home and
w = IL Nl4Sit tlie ltlt Oh nave uIJl lGU
to ruin. have heard it before. 1t is
true nevertheless. as many a wrecked
nfe. a premature grave Will tell you, if
you listen.
1t your home is happy, cheerful
one. you are needed there to keep it
thus. If it is a cheerless. discontented
abode, your duty is to make a model
home of it. Farm life is not narrow,
neither need our lives be narrow on the
farm. In no other place. in all this
beautiful world, does nature deal out
her glories with so lavish a hand. In
no other place are the evils of life so
completely excluded. These long win
ter evenings you can meet the noted
writer, the eloquent preacher, the scien-
tlfic lecturer, between the lids of book
or magazine, and meet them at their
best. There they are shorn of the petty
frlvolities that mar the beauties of so
many lives. What glorious hours for
study, for acquainting ones self with
gems of thought, for mental COM
munlon with the true, the noble spirits
of the day. Drive away this discomfort
with plans for frightening and beauti-
tying your home, then put your plans
into action. No duty, however distaste
ful, but may be made pleasure if you
will. Take an interest in everything
around you. Look for beauty and you
will see it; Work for happiness and
You will get it. Mrs. Annie B. Bush
ong, in st. Louis Globe-Democrat