The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1902-12-15
AMERICANS COUNTRY HOME. BY Ae": e. a.: 6S :.
Charm Of Rural Life

have said, sis to be gotten through a perfectly
natural and rational adapting of yourself to your
environments. The beautiful flower is as much
your proper food bread and meat The laws
and operations of nature much your proper
business as is money getting. While surrounding
yourself with attractive surroundings you are
fulfilling obligation to make those about you
better and happier. Awake to this meaning
of your life" Your mission the herald of this
gospel serves as well the cause of democracy.
The difference between the classes and the
masses is not so great as it seems and need not be
so great it is.
The cottar produce more beautiful tree,
if he love it, than the millionaire require his
hired slave to produce. Roses and honeysuckles
and the old-fashioned pink are democratic The
rudest home the rocks out there may be very
bower of beauty. Your gospel comes to the rlch
man hard pressed with business cares, and bids
him find source of rest and JOY. 1t comes
to the poor man bowed down under severe daily
toll and teaches the same lesson. 1t gives to both
truer conception of life and happiness. We err
so greatly in the source of happiness. The
chant prince with stately mansion richly fur
nished, driven to his business in a shining car
riage drawn by glossy horses, livered coachman
on the boot, is object of envy. How about this
farmer prince? cozy white cottage empowered
in roses in the midst of pretty yard The cottage
is clean and simple within and there are evidences
of a love of books and music and art. In the mea-
dow sleek and stately cattle drink at the limpid
brook. Young lambkins skip from bank to bank
or troop away to their bleatng dams. The young
is full of sap and grew so much last night
that you begin to hear the rustic of the rich
dark green leaves The cherry trees reddening
in the orchard and you hear the quarrel of
the woodpeckers the first ripe cherries The
sweet smell of the red clover comes floating over
the field and you can hear the hum of the bees
at their joyous task The farmer is hitching a
pair of strong contented horses to the moving ma
chine for the clover must be cut today. His brow
is not so drawn that of the merchant prince
and he is whistling to himself in an undertone
Why should not he also be envied and is this life
less wholesome and worthy than that? Maybe
after all, he would not be willing to exchange all
with the merchant prince.
have said that our real philosophy of life
your mission is to correct it and teach truer and
better philosophy
Our educational philosophy also is inadequate
We create elaborate school systems, provide them
with buildings, books, apparatus and teachers
abundanty, send children to school five days
in the week for ten months in the year. and think
that the task is done. All this is very WELL at
least most of it is very WELL But education is
very complex affair 1t goes on by night we'll
The process continues the child goes and as it
Vacation period is not vacation so far as
education is concerned. "My childs education shall
not begin until he is six more" said the moth
ooh, no, fond mother, you powerless to
control that matter. His education began when
lying in your lap he first opened those round
wondering eyes," my daughters education is
complete at seventeen" said the mother whose
child hau just returned from fashionable finish
ing school. Alas! if it were So seeing how meager