The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-09

long after mid light and Saturdays sun
does not surprise them abed.
Two hours sleep is all they allow them
selves. BY Z o'clock the brown horse and
the covered wagon are of, and ne partners,
side 10y side are on their weekly selling
expedition
LITERARY.
One drives and the other reads book
aloud. and they manage to keep up with
the reading world by this and other little
economies of time. Waste not hing IL q
maxim with them.
They have a lot of other savings, too,
one of which is: Sell what YOU can; what
YOU cant cell, feed To the pigs, and what
the pigs won't eat, eat yourself " but
that's only joke, for they don't keep pigs.
and nobody's table can speak better for
Oakinere than it, own. They raire every
thing they put On 1t except the forks and
knives and POSSIBLY "A few Of the dishes
Another Sweet 4 twenty maxim is:
Strangers for hei friends for advice.
relatives for nothing" II sounds cynical,
but you wouldn't mind if you heard them
say II
After the SATURDAY. customer are sup
piled the rest OF what the farm produces
goes to some Of the bast hotels, one In
Brooklyn and another overlooking the
Central Park plaza, and they are glad 70
60 above the market rate for all that tho
firm will send them.
HOW 1T DREW
Oakuierr has been u growing enterprise
from The start. The firm now employs
two men and a woman. keeps two horses
and a COW and has twenty-fv acres where
!, began with ten. You might count In
two dogs, possib y hut they constitute" the
non-producing class Of the community.
Life at Oaknere Is not a bit prosy. They
sold COW last spring but rhe pinned for
her old friends and proved such an I'M
"a in aSt lfnu 10 for no
that he sold her back for half what she cost.
aud she cane home with "A smile on her
face never TO leave II again, IL one u
the firm said. calling her dear old girl
and darling and other names quite
ridiculous. according TO all the established
rules Of practical farming Imagine a
farmer who cnll- his horse Brownie dear,
only it isn't "his" horse, It's her horse,
which makes a difference
When the days work il done and the
sha dOws fall around Oakinere what home
Is more snug and cosey than its fine old
fashioned half What hearth is more
cheerful than it, broad open fireplace with
sparks and flames from great log. chasing
one aLother up the chimney
HELPING OTHERS,
The evenings are short for Sweet Il
Twenty. but short IA they are, one inetnber
| q the firm can always spare haH hour
to write and toll some other woman, seeking
7
H. They get great many letters asking
for information Of that kind in the course
of year, and every one is kindly and ex-
plicity answered.
You have 10 he very domestic to enjoy
this sort Of thing said one Of the firm a
few days ago. You must love your home
and everything about !, and just liveior II.
We AWAY say that when We get mar
! ri.cl We shall want cur htlsf ands 70 stay
! right here and do their work AZ home
/ literary men, yu know. or something
! like that" which shows that -um" day oi
/ a her there Willie a pair of -poi'e husbands
/ az Oakmere il the firm ever geIs time "a
! take a day n for matrimonial purposes
| One day would l." enough, for il would tie a
! double weddiur, # course. nrd the whole
! job would lie duie up AZ once,
Meanwhile the firm l. keeping mp fol
/ itself all the refrcmcr's Of beautiful
| home and all tn" activity Of n thriving
! business. They hav. been very hapI y
out of the beaten path and will he YER,
glad to walk il for many wears TO come
Oakmere could have leon sold long age
at a handsome profit. but there Is nothing
else 20 good that tNe money We uld buy
and nothing they could lowe 80 we'll.