The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-05-15


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bers in touch with the important
things OF the world It united them II
helpful study. In some instances IT
has done much more. Many a West.
ern city has q public library, because
clubIwomen u~nse1issly toiled, giving
"rummage' sales and entertainments,
soliciting books and funds. More than
one has cleaner streets, beauty spots
and more slightly public grounds be
cause of the work of the women's
clubs. 1t is difficult to maintain an
afternoon bridge club in the West
but a literary organization meets yea
after year with unabated zeal.
why don't you move to a big city,
asked a visitor of the Major.
Why should I? What does the city
man possess thai I do not?" was the
reply. w have water-wOrkS, cleo
trio lights with a day current for ma
chinery in my store, local and long
distance telephones il my home and
business place, sewers, good schools,
with the high school preparing for
college, morning ape delivered be-
fore breakfast-what more has b
city MANI"
He might have added that soon in
terurban trolley lines will unite the
towns, and that paving aid gas are
on the way.
The fastener oes not understand
all this unless he has seen the west
he fails to grasp it from printed pages
1t would be a good investment for
any Western State to send a portfo-
lilo of a thousand photographs, show
ing its homes, is farms, is towns, to
every leading citizen on the Atlantic
slope.
In the town whence the Pushtons
came the opera house" was over a
hardware store; in their new home
it was modern, though limited. in size
and was called a "theater." Not much
going on? Is it not something to have
three weeks of ten twenty thirty cent
repertoire during the season? Then
now about For Her Sake" 1.-The Hid
den Hand" three minstrel shows, and
two evenings of Shakespeare? To be
sure the scenery of LAS You Like IT.
was much the same as in aThe Little
Homestead" and electric lamps from
the china store were used effectively
on Petruchio's banquet table-but
those are trivialiteS.
Then the lecture course-the delec-
tation of the serious minded. Two OF
three glee clubs entertain, a scientist
expou1ds, and some famous mel in
strlpct.
You mistake if you think the West
erner out of touch with h world. The
greatest preachers, the leading au-
thors, h famous generals and states
men, are brought year after year to
mid-continent towns through the unit
ed efforts of those having the good
of communities at heart. TIE dwell
Ter in central Nebraska probably saw
M heard the famous Senator before
he appeared to the resident of the
Bronx.
Nor is this all. In nearly every
is more than one who has travel
ed in Europe; the college alumni are
enough for a colony. The
other day a woman in a little mid
Western city died, and the local pal
per mentioned that n O vas at
Princeton, another was loading a !
steamer at Mobile, to start for Rio
Janerio, one daughter was in Califor-
MIA, and another was enjoying, in an
automobile, a bridal our OF Europe.
Occasionally he East shows it's I'M
consciousness of this Western world |
For instance, a famous
New YOrk author was introduced a |
months ago to a Kansas oma |
and learned that h resides in a
of less than two thousand popu-
lation, nearly two hundred miles west
the Missouri river. After her re-
home he sent ner "a Tale Of Two
Cities" and Browning's poems, with
the hope that she would find soEace
for her isolation" evidently
commiserating her sad fate. 1t hap
pens that her dwelling is furnace heat
ed, lighted with electricity, equipped
with hot and cold water, that she be-
m ~ To fh-no 11h Hho1 - hv-o wy Of 1
hundred well selected books,
in her own motor car, and mas
far more extensively than he.
Six months after the arrival the
Pushtons' baby died. The modest
parlor its figured Brussels carpet
comparatively few houses yet have
hardwood fOorS-waS a smile with
masses of flowers sent by the neigh
bors, the lodges, the societies. The
church choir sang; the house and
porch were filled with sympathetic
friends; it vas as if they had been
among these people all of their lives.
The family could scarce distinguish
between lodge n church in the kind
was it necessary that they
should do so, for the memberships
per expressed 'the sympathy of the
entire community" and told how "a
~co1course of friends and neigh
bors followed the little form to it's
last resting place, showing the high
in which the family is held"
It is no worth while to live among
of this sort?
These kindly expression of the
Western church and lodge are their
strength. The deficiency of the church
in its constant struggle against
the business activity and ambition of
congregation. 81 can get money
from the men OF my church.
but l can't get their time and atten-
-ion," n minister expressed 1T. But
despite their number-altogether too
great in most townsville organiza-