Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-09-23

was about them thatNndehnahe something which is as
inseperabe from the country the urban ruscy Of the
city jay" when he leaves his native heath for babblng
brooks and the beaing sheer Some city people smiled
at the country folks and went their way along the hot
streets say-the Kansas CITY Journal.
And the country folks what of them? They
ed to the farm and resumed the life which ubiquitous
is striving hard to relieve and upl-a life
and mootonous and unatractve that three country girls
who ran away from it and another city the other
day yearned for ardenty within few days that the
police helped them get back the farm The papers;
said they were hungry for the green fields,
That hunger is the mmemoral longing Of the instinct
born into the race. The hrs was gardner we are
told Certain is that the first ters of the SOIL
after they ceased to be wandering warriors That is where
we get our love OF nature. That is why we build parks
and have flowers camberng about premises That is
why strangely at peace when get out into the
mountains and lose ourselves among the fragrant woods
hat is why we oathe at times the smell OF pains that is
civilization and long for the perfume of the life that R
close the green leaves and the wild flowers That is
why we happy when camp out and why we are
reluctant to return. That is ny earliest recoec-
ons Of the old farm the eetest and tenderest Of
our lives. That is why we Joke at the simple
life and back to nature and that-when somebody
is around and why know, ~ down in our hearts
that the simple life is the life worth living and that
we canuo get close anything seer or purer than ma
ture, Mother" Nature whose and daughters we are:
from whom we may wander IA ii to whom We return as
prodigals finding the pTodgas Welcome and the prodi
gals peace
1t is not matter ol mere sensimentaIiy The farmers
ite is not all poetry, by any Neither is the city
householders lite. The poorest rmer as Croesus 10
Dives in comparison with sum weller in the city and as
ascend in the scale Of classification Of standards Of
living the disparity found The moderately we'll
todo tarmers the most enviable the planet right
~ considered OF course. cannot be all farmers and
we should be very unwise all tried TO be- Nor is
the city ODE condemned in favor Of the farm in all things
Each has its place in the economy Of racial evolution
Neither can exist without the other though the city Is
absolutely dependent upon the farmer. If crops failed
throughout the world for single year. and the farm was
eliminated from the food problem the world would sarve
to death before the next crop came in.
But IS not hom these great world vie,ypoints that the
farm need be regarded though there is something element
al in the life Of the soil The old Greeks fashioned a.
NEUROLOGICAL hero Nvhoin his struggles with antagonists
became hundred times stronger every time he touched
the This may Be homey alIegory o teach Us that
defeat makes stronger and knockdowns are the real
blessings Of physacia culture. may bea personazae
ton OF the fact that the almost unvaryng story Of history
is that the who spring from the soil are the bone and
sinew OF the national lie Of peoples who have done ma
tons work in the world Ii our own country this has
been particularly true, and not even TIE growing COM,
pexty q national lite has vet robbed lie farm II s
trophies though may explain Why there arc rct 50 many
giants as there were IN those days Of fly years ago.
The rural view Of rural life may notake much stock f
the back nature Theory The CITY lights eIesm seduc-
lively the hills and across the prares The call of
the seepes IS Increasingly iHstrnt but III lie shadow 81
the steebles and the huge Pills Of brick and stone and
steele are dangers and temrIsons and trials and heart
aches to which the farm is stranger So that on the
whole the rralite As not entirely object Of amusement
Or subject for Jest and ridcuIe