Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-28
Iowa Newspapers
MANS LOVE OF NATURE.
Hoe Trigg.l
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nature. the soil and its products. no
matter where they live or what they
do. Thus the city man takes TO parks
shrubs and flowers. to lawn trees Tor
his city home. and. limited as OPP
nortunIties may be for nature study
there is still nothing which insures a
more intense and lively interest among
CITY children. This inherent love 10y
nature and natures works opens an al
most unlimited field for eXploitanon
ard is never undertaken. no matter
how crudely. but it rewards every
effort 81 hundredfold by promoting an
interest in the common ana practlca
things of human living and lts reflnlhs
and wholesome Influence on humanity
No better reform is now IN progress
viewed from an aesthetic. sanitary and
ciyilizing standpoint, than that OIL
teaching city people how they may
clean up, beautify and regenerate their
back yards The utilization of vacant
city lots for gardens, worked by the
very poor Of the municipality, not only
converts unsightly patches of weeds
into beauty spots. but in direct ana
helpful manner ministers to the COM
fort and happiness of those so en-
gagged 1t is passing strange that Just
where one would look for the evidence
Of this refining and cultured work
where natural facility was waiting to
promote it, there is where the least or
it is to be found. and that is on the
farm homesteads Of the country. WITH
ample room for grass. vine, fruit, flow
or and tree, there may be found the
most dreary forbidding and uninvit-
ing surroundings. Energy and busl-
ness enough, plenty of work and push
In the raising of hogs, corn and cattle.
plenty Of money and opportunity, but
with it all an utter Lack of appreciatio
of. what might be done at so small an
expense in the identifying OF the
home. which really. for a fact. repre-
sents to every man about all there is
worth working for, for no ownership OF
broad acres no generous bank ac-
count, no thrifty herds of cattle and
swine. count for much If the nome is
only a. place in which to just eat and
sleep-a human cattle shed. The most
delightful and attractive homes of
America should be found on the Aneri-
can farm. and will be some day when
the renaissance OF agriculture comes.
ANY farmer who will study this prob
lem of making the farm home beauti-
full and express in tie new and better
way with tree, shrub, plant, flower,
vine and lawn that refinement and Gull
ture of taste which are SO easily pos
sible will by his example do far more
in, Vx-hf r11 a
than he could as a member of the leg
islature or as the bishop of the church.
John Runyan pictures character In
his "Pilgrim's Progress" bowed to the
ground. eternally working with an old
muck rake in the pursuit of money.
while an angel hoated just above. but
unseen by him, with a golden crown
for him if he would only look up. You
men who live day by day In dreary
and desolate farm houses, who see at
your fireside wife and children with
every refined taste and aspiration
crushed out of them in your hog and
corn race for bank deposits, look up!
THE RURAL MAIL CARRIERS WO
TKahoka Courier.l
a terrible time this week on account
of cold and drifted snow. The govern
ment does not require and farmers
should not expect these hard working
public servants to break out roads af-
ter storm. 1t is all very we'll for the
farmer with a pair of big strong horses
that have been resting for perhaps a
week, to get out and pillow his way for
five or six miles to town. With the
rural mail carrier it is altogether diff
ferent. For his jaded team a drive of
twenty five miles up and down hills
and thru lanes piled high with snow is
O. proposition too strenuous for ordi-
nary brute strength and endurance to
go up against. The writer has seen
the teams this winter after struggle
of eight or ten miles thru the heavy
snow so tagged and done up that the
horses could scarcely set one foot
ahead of another. Rural patrons
should bear these things in mind, and
lend every assistance possible to aid the
carriers in the discharge of their duty.
USES OF ADVERSELY.
Davenport Deinocrat.]
One of the sweet uses of adversely
is it's open manifestation of friend
ship and affection and respect. In
health and prosperity we go along
the even tenor of our way, unregard-
ing little needing, but misfortune
its victims by raising
up friends for him where he did not
suppose they had existed. DR.. Har-
per for example. Perhaps no man in
private life has received more gem
eral and fervent outpouring Of con-
dolence and sympathy. Surely no