Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-01-23
The Difference Between City and coun.
try Bows.

An interesting article in the Southern
Farm Magazine on this subject Is well
worth reading. IL Is too long for repub-
i,cation. but the points made are well
worth noticing in all our agricultural pa
pers.
The entire subject revolves about the
farm as a training school and practical
discipline for young and receptive minds.
Here is what Is said OF the city boy:
He lives in a house that Is simply one
little piece OF a block OF houses. II is
Ike a trick raised on its edge. He has
only two ends OF the house exposed TO
the air-f0r IL Is shut in on both sides.
Nevertheless. that house Is provided
with all or what we call cOnveniences. It
has every convenience for comfort. Even
the heat Is brought in from some outside
source-which can be turned on or turned
on at pleasure. Light Is so furnished
that when an illumination OF the rooms
Is required. IL Is only necessary 10 strike
a match or turn an electric switch and
the thing Is done
The boy knows but little about how
the food Is brought in. The milkman. the
butcher and baker may deliver while he is
asleep in the morning. and he goes to the
table and eats. without the necessity OF
knowing more than the situation requires.
he knows that everything is brought TO
the house without knowing how IT grew
or got 10 him.
~He walks out OF the house. goes to the
corner. steps on a street car and pays five
cents for his trip. he goes TO school or
wherever he Is going. then he gets on the
car pays another 1--WE cents and goes back
70 the house. Everything is provided 10
his hand.
IN the evening. perhaps. there is a
place OF amusement or entertainment He
goes 10 sleep and gets up and goes again,
as he did the day before.
Let US see what the country boy has
been doing. He Is called up In the morn
ing 10 make fire. draw water. feed stock.
or maybe bring the cows up from the pas
ture. Maybe he is barefoot and the
ground is cold. He brings them up in the
evening and stands where some old cow
has been lying down. to get a little
warmth. Maybe old Brindle won't drive,
and he must fix a plan 10 make her. This
Is one OF the best things that can happen
to the boy. He is thrown on his own re-
sources. Perhaps the cows must be fed.
At different seasons they need different
foods. These COWS have TO be MIXED.
milk vessels made clean and there is a
why and a wherefore TO all his work, and
he must understand IL all.
Maybe he must chop wood. and do
dozen things before he sits down to eat
his breakfast. He is not like the city
boy who has everything made ready for
him. The country boy is surrounding
obstacles all the time. and all the time
learning something by experience. II
makes him self-reliant and resourceful.
Take these two boys when the get
to be men and put them at the same
kind OF work One viii be resourceful
and the others faculties are dormant. be-
cause OF disease. Granting equal mental
ability 70 both boys. the test vii come in
the ability 10 encounter and overcome OBJ
ztacies.
The city boy goes along finely in the
groove. So long as no accident happens
he runs easily in the groove. But acct
dents are reasonably sure TO happen. then
he has no experience with difficulties TO
aid him In solving difficult problems.
When the country boy goes TO the city.
into a factory or in an Office. this train
ing in self-reliance Is prominently help
full One day on the farm Is hardly ike
any other day. Each days work brings
new issues and new contingencies. He IS
being taught continual discipline and self
reliance