The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-12-06

good house keeper at such a plac,
II she had the training, and she lack
training because circumstances have
been against 1t. Saddles In one room
of the house; saddle blankets, grain
mice; all these have been agains
good house keeping, the boots tina
tramp about in that stable yard II
wet weather would take the freshness
out of any carpet that ever came ou1
of a loom. The whole situation IL
hopeless, and the whole farm, house
and premises remain on a par with
the original arrangement of stable
pig pen and chicken house.
These children are attending the
schools of these counties now, and
the school house and premises will
be like the home we have described
unless the better element in the neigh
borhood prevails in its management
Rye grass grows in the school house
yard, and in wet weather the mud
is tramped into the house, for there is
no board walk, and no porch worthy
of the name. The house looks DESC
late on the outside, and in bad wealth.
er it resembles hog pen on the In
side. Into these places the children
of such parents may go from day to
day to be educated, and the teachers
from Illinois and Michigan will work
under disadvantages until the end of
the term and nothing will induce
them to return for the next year.
There is no library in the school,
and the reading matter in the house
we have described is poorly selected
and trashy. The chief amusement
of the community is dancing in the
school house in the winter season
and on the Fourth of July, and there
is nothing in the child's life to make
it sweet to him or to give him cul-
ture or training that will enable him
to go out into the world and make
a home and provide the comforts of
home.
The Westerner.
The men and women who we're
raised in Utah or other western states
may have home built on the pattern
of the one described above, with none
of the sweet memories of childhood
enumerated, though they recall the
days of the buffalo and hardship and
privations of early settlement. So
far as the Children are concerned,
they are likely to be brought up
under about the same conditions, tho
we have described the worst condi-
tions that may be found among those
who try at all, and If we sum up
the amusements and social privileges
provided for them, there is a grand
total Of dancing, and marked alb
sence of anything that gives them
intellectual or religious and moral
training. This Is a condition that
the adults should study and meet;
the children are not the ones to have
forethought about them, but they
may look back from future years and
feel like passing Judgment upon
their parents who neglected some
things altogether or drilled them in
something or drilled something into
them that compromises their whole
lives by narrowing their scope of
thought and work.
Another Picture.
In the Lost River Valley in Idaho.
is a ranch, cross sectioned with old
fences, and bitches, with old corrals
and stockyards. The log building
are standing out in the open, and
never a tree nor shrub nor a garden
plant has budded on the premises,
yet family was raised there and
the young birds have flown. They
left the nest as soon as they could
safely fly, and when the parents were
left alone they quarreled and parted.
There was no tie to bin hem to-
gether, not even a flower bed that
had been cared for by a daughter
nor tree put out by the sons when
they were old enough to study nature
and watch the growth of bulbs and
roots. A barren yard with tin cans
in It, big store bill always pi1ing