The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-10-08
The Joeund Farmer.

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900
The Jccund Farmer.
Almost as regularly as the moon
gets full-that is, quarterly. ] go out
into the placid country to pet the wab-
bly, calf to watch the busy little bee
gather honey and to scratch the pig
with a cob / always leave the city
mart full Of enthusiasm. One reason
| ! leave 1t. is because ! cannot take II
along
| You may remember one of the Rog-
ers brothers, when asked II he took
his wife to Paris with him, replied:
You'd you take a ham sandwich TO
a banquet"
And that's another reason why |
leave the city behind when I go into
the country.
| like the country for the country's
sake. 1t is TO me what a glass of eff
! fervescing champagne is to the man
who is city broke, high stopper and
afraid of pigs along the road" Not
that ever have hankered for farm.
er's life. Ny divine afTlatus and dis.
proportionate central statuary that
| bothers me when lacing my shoes
/ forbids the freedom of yeomanry,
but have dreamed OF being gen
tleman farmer. In my minds eye
have fitted from flower to flower on
| the farm, currying the pigs. feeling
| new horns sprouting on the infantile
rams. sailing the new kittens. halter
ing the turkey sobblo:. gathering the
eggs when the horses have failed to
eat them, sharing gophers from post
holes, teaching the dog to bite book.
agents, fighting the chinch bugs, i'm.
porting skinned milk to the village
Dragging about that new colt and how
near the lightning came to hitting my
barnl
Up to a recent visit this was my
dream of the farm. Now | know
have been deceived All farmers OF
to-day are gentlemen farmers, and
just as soon as can find a farmer fool
enough to swap places with me, I an
going out into the rural dis riots "a
eat green corn Off Ire cob and be
happy tho marie !.
was met IN the lite country
town by the farmer. After getting 9
shave and offering in payment a bill
so big neither the farmer no. I coult
change IT, he bought some sc )G cigars
and said he was ready.
II was a glorious morning. In the
air there was no essence of redolent
cafaterias, ne ancient alley-stench. nc
slop-wagon fetor-only the sweet in
cense of meadow and field.
At the farm home the grass In the
front yard was clipped with a lawr
mower, there were hammocks ant
easy chairs. The dinner was dream
The farmer spent the day enjoying
himself, while the hired help did the
work. There were yet two picnics ant
a sale to attend that week. He was
going to all threel
have always contended that while
the farmer feeds us all he usually
keeps the best for his own arder
There is a huge overgrown belief IN
town that a farmer skimps his owl
table to carry food.stuffs to market
Perish the error. The farmer has
fresh eggs and vegetables. the yellow
legged chickens cavort about his legs
and the apples In his orchard are as
ruddy-hued as the cheeks of his prett,
daughters. His mail is delivered a
his door, he has telephone and takei
forty''leven periodicals which he readi
before passing them to that bourn,
from which newspapers never return
His life is not ideal, but It has {
leaning that way. Don't pity IN,
farmer! Save your sympathy for tn,
town slave.
600
Ten Lives Lost
We had eat, "A big mouser. who wa
always ready for a Job. In a stable. on
bed OF straw, was big dry goods no,
with homes for mice. When clearing IN,
stable we brought the cat and raised IN,
box. The cat. at the first jump, had on,
under each paw and one In her mouth
she snapped each and caught nine al
told, jumping under the low roof for I'M
last one They were all large and nom
escaped. Just at this juncture Cutler
frisky Newfoundland dog jumped GU
yard fence and snapped poor pus
through the back. The murder murdere,
by murderer!-Horicon (wls) Re
porter
600
She Loves One Of EN-.
A Chicago girl claims TO have re
ceived forty-seven proposals OF mar
riage-only one of which she IL aorr,