Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-06-21

she ought OH arriving ut years Of dis.
erection to lend a hand toward a mu-
tual appreciation. The first lesson that
the young need to learn about their
elders Is that change of the point of
view Is difficult. II not Impossible. for
them. Their horizon may be widencd,
hut not shifted. Let the daughter lind
out what her parents really care for;
what most pleases them; what most
easily initiates them; what tires them;
what refreshes them; what they like
best to eat. to drink. to talk about. to
see, to feel. These facts once MASTER
cd and accepted. u long step has been
taken toward understanding-nnd I'M
Outstanding of one another Is the ct
mosphere In which home grows to be
indeed the dearest spot on earth.
While the father and mother are max.
Ing 1t possible for the childs life to be
enriched by education and by travel,
IL Is her business to see that their lives
arc enriched and broadencd by the In.
tercsts that come to her. She IL 10
open to them new and strange lands
without the pain Of travel. Her friends,
her enthusiasms. her pleasures are to
l,c marshaled before their Preside. SO
each generation may live twice through
the Joys Of youth. and gradually an IN
telligent unselfishncss may close up for.
ever that cruel chasm which has often
separated youth and age.
The Chicago Record. Herald deplOres
that the annual increase Of the popu.
latiOn Of that city embraces several
thousand young men from the farms
| who are the Victims Of the notion that
opportunity awaits them In the cities
alone. 1t Is true that this opinion on
the part Of 80 many young men is de.
fusion. but the young men themselves
are not responsible for 1t. They read
OF this or that man who hns risen to
some distinction In commercial profess
siOnal or political life that he twas
raised OH the farm" This Is said so
frequently that. very naturally. the
young man on the farm comes 10 be-
licve that success awaits him In the
cities. In the Illusion produced by the
glowing stories Of the few the young
man loses sight Of the failure or the OBJ
llvlOn Of the many who go to the cities
and are thereafter rarely ever heard Of.
The nine-tenths find that they must
struggle In crowded labor market
ind accept wages that will not secure
them the good living OF the farm. II
they marry they must, for the most
part, live In crowded tenement houses
II they go to the largest cities. II a
man IL more successful he cannot hope
for the larger success Of which he has
read and which has led him to the city.
30 II all who go to the cities from the
farm would tell the plain truth about
the matter they would confess that
they would be better back on the farms
II they could rent ana till small piece
Of land. Those people who write and
talk about the farm give the impress.
sion that 1t Is II life Of drudgery to be
escaped. This IL Il mistake; the aver.
age farmer does not toll SO many hours
In the year us do men In most city en-.
Payments. With modern machinery
the farmer Is very much u mechanic,
and mechanic the severity Of whose
labor has been greatly reduced by In.
bOr-saving ana MISUNDERSTANDING ma.
chinery. No man who so largely de-
ponds upon his daily employment for
his bread Is so much his own man as
the average farmer. At the present
time the drudgery of the farm Is no
greater than that of any other employ
ment. There are thousands OF men In
every one of the States who, farming
intelllgently, are forehanded and are
making money from year to year. 1t
was the opinion Of the late Governor
afforded such opportunities for acquir-
ing competency as does farming. While
1t may be that many of the brightest
of those born on the farms have cast
their lots IL the cities, there Is good rea-
son to believe that In comparison of
all who left the farms with all who re-
main on them the average of the latter
would be the better SO far rs living con-
dtions are concerned. During the last
few years the Introduction of the tele.
phone, the electric railway and the free
rural delivery Of the mails have chang.
ed the situation. The isolation, or the
-Of-the-wOrld life on the farm Is
practically a thing of the past, or will
be In the course of few years. Furth-
ermore. 1t has been demonstrated that
In no calling are brains more needed
than In managing the affairs of the
farm. In the near future the farmer.
above other men, must be man of in
telligence and ability If he would sue
coed. An evolution has begun which
will change the methods Of agriculture
as the introduction Of machinery has
revOlutlonized the methods OF produc.
ton In other industries.