Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1906-07-14
AN INTERESTING
COSBY CHAT
With Secretary Wilson Of the
Department Of Aeri-
culture, an
FSIHUAASHc FARMER OF IOWA


avenue this afternoon yeu win nnd
the air d. heavy wllh The scent 90 the
dying blossoms OF the linden trees.
said Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson.
did you notice that9 And around
Dupont Circle the Magnolia blooms
are just dropping Dld sou notice
thHig
Amer an uusuccessluI attempt 90
hide hia disgust because huu not
noticed. De continued.
They are all my intimate friends.
! Gao hardly Say We speak as Wp pass
/ hy. bat $50 always nod.
Are you very fond of trets2
n love an those fellows. { knew
them when they were nule puny
things. many years ago when ! was
honr ln congress. and / drive through
every afternoon when I have nuIshed
wy work. pass the time of dag with
/ them. and receive their saluiatiuns
frees are the best friends a man can
have. 70 nc,er matters 90 them TO the
leas. whether : ana feeling giua about
something Or whether some verj good
news has just reached my ear tntb
always bend their pretty heads par
/ ticumrly u the aiud happens aioag to
remind them Of their manners.
ssauty Of Washington.
"Thcj make the capital very
pretty"
Washington one OF The most
beautiful cities in the world, re-
Apuuded tine secretary IL To- already
Tihe heart OF the nations politics. aud
the scientific center. and % la rapidly
I getting 90 Dee The social center also.
"Hu the women here need Co go q
iowa. Tney are the prettiest creatures
in the world already. except the wes-
tern girls but they need "a gear Ia
Iowa Co Improve their figures. and
! their compilations. They need TO De
able to jump ON q horse and race
around a big farm. getting some good
air into their lungs and some color
into their checks
why. most women think they are
already very pretty I protested
"They are pretty but they might be
prettier An old man. sou know, mas
10 tell the truth
AN old man should have learned 10
tell b. more Automatically
"Not hc.' declared Mr. Wilson, !
au- To- charge of Uncle SANS agricul-
cure. not state department
We'll 10 yuu don't IKE Washington
girls then you are Nery hard 20
please
His Ideal Woman,
"lm not 100 hard tO phase in WUmen
iolk &c "a gir. who can tide a
horse no matter hos hsfd hp kicks;
then when n comes dinner time She
must gallop up Co the house hop on.
tIe the horse so he wont got away,
and go loo 90 see thar dinner is ready
and things iu order Tor the home
coming uf the men u Dee 10 a far
mer's daughter she ought go Dee able
to climb up on reaper and run Il
like man
with which modest demand secre-
liary Wilson leaned back redectIvely.
And I suppose she must have AT
the drawing room accomplishments.
too"
"Oh. yes. she must bee able 20 play
the piano. and paint aud she must
have had "a college education"
"Nou won't end her. ! said, with
conviction. bui Secretary WILSON only
smiled enigmatloally.
"Werr You over len lowa7' he de-
imRnded You Werent2 Then YOU
ton buow anything about e. We
llave women lihe thai Ia Iowa"
Longing for His Farm.
"But " Isn her women that call me
4ack 90 Iowa. for you know I'm an
old man uoW. but d Is my farm out
there. that tended myself before
came to Washington The old trees on
my farm I planted when ! was o very
young man. and ! feel Ike I'm at
tending a family reunion when ! 90
ont there % see them. ! have my son
write me when the spring comes
which Cnes at the old fellows are
showing their age, aud II any enter
prisinE ones are starting new
branches. or " some old one, perhaps
has grown discouraged ana died.
Every man carries ga his heart
some longing 90 GET on farm, wheth-
or he was ever there before or not
md YOU can imagine how who lived
there 1ll doing my boyh0od and made
their the iirsi attachments of my life
should get hOmealck for the old place
again. and resolve 20 go beck there aa
soon as ! can
SO you won't stay Ia Washington
after your work here is hnlshed?
Washington Won't Hold Him.
"N0t one minute logger than I can
help" WAS his emphatic reply I'm
less than twenty four hours after
have said good by TO the department
OF agriculture l'll be on "a train that
ls spinning toward Iowa There are
some things that n man never fOrgeis
and never ceases 20 want and that Is
what lies nearest 90 my heart You'd
/ never think 20 see me hummiue
around the department over yondel
thnt I was slghing an she time Tor an
old farm out Ia Iowa, but thar ls true
II have taught my sons the science
OF farming. aud re love OF So wa.
born IN their bones n / had my va,
, there would be a department In every
+ American college which would teach
, boy the properties OF he soil anC
the wonderful things you can do with
&c."
"But would you highly educate q
man and then pat him on the farm q
, lives"
~ he had the proper education so,
. couldn't keep him ON the farm" re-
Z piled Secretary Wilson with th'
/ whole hearted enthusiasm he would
have na believe 10 he the peculiar
property OF Iowa
Then, IN order 10 keep himself from
getting homeslck he hegnn to MAKE
fun at Washington. "Eyoryhody hers
is very lazy Tho only pouhle heu
who over hurry are the fellows wh'
rush ln 10 take new office ana ever
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