The Washington bee., 1910-09-10

er part should be placed in the bank
to their credit during their apprentice
ship. When they have been trained
to respect the dignity OF labor and
taught to work and can and will work,
release them and use this aCCumulat-
| ed money to start them en- small
| farms, OF some other self-supportlng
enterprise.
In conversation with farmer and
/ his wife in one of the States the other
day they said: "4Ve hire hands to work
| and these hands, instead of giving an
honest days work for the pay prom
| ised, work TO kill time. When we
leave them they slip to the orchard
or to the watermelon patches, or go
to the spring, half a mile away, fire.
/ quently, and often leave the mule and
plow in the field and lie under a
| spreading shade tree and sleep" A
farmer in another State said: Il have
almost given up the hope of making
any progress on my farm with the
kind of labor now available"
But the industrial school, where ag-
riculture is taught in practice as we'll
as in theory, will make a more efficient
and reliable class of helpers in such
fields of endeavOr and solve many IN
tricate problems. Therefore, every
county should maintain a compulsory
agricultural wOrk-settlement for the
indOlent, nOn-CTiminal class, who can
work and will not work
Every public school should have an
industrial department, and teach the
girls to cook and to keep the house
clean. Such training is largely ne
elected in the home life of the present
day generation of young people. Is 1t
any wonder that there Is SO much
tuberculosis fatality? Work is pan
aCea for all disease. Let there be less
book grinding and more knowledge
about agriculture and domestic SCI
ence. A return to the farm will pro-
duce a better class of boys and girls
who will develop into self reliant and
reliable men and women.
In his Utica address, Mr.. Roosevelt
= told the farmers that they ought to
avail themselves of expert advice from
. technical men, and not be content to
go on without improving their meth
r DDS Of farming. He thought that the
farm life should be made more at
tractive and that the farmers wives
ought TO have an easier time. He
spoke of the country church, and
urged the farmer to have the right
kind of religion.
Adam and Eve were the first farm
ers, and they combined farm work and
religion, and had the best preacher
God On every large farm there should
be a church and a school, and the
preacher and teacher should be as
/ godly as it Is possible for human be
, ings to be.
Fl Says Mr.. Roosevelt: q want to be
= able to recognize the good Christian
by the way he acts on week days
, He says further: Il will never go with
/ the type of farmer who says, 1 an
down on the lawyers: [ am against
the business man. l will go with him
when he says, I am against a bad
, type of lawyers, or bad type OF
, bankers In other words, / viii sc
with him when he prOnOunCeS Judg-
ment on a man not on account of his
occupation, but in accordance with
/ conduct
. Please permit your correspondent
I to speak of farm III Virginia, man
aged and worked by lawyer and hi,
.wife Here farming and law are com
bined. These people are welding {
, imost hallOwed influence in the com
I munity. Because of its boundary
r two rivers and a creek-its plenty, it,
beautiful situation, and one man anC
, one woman, being its only human in
, habitants. it is named ''Paradis,
Farm" The mountains, the hills, tn,
iplains, the valleys, excellent water, anl
pure. bracing air, make it an idea
health resort. A visit to Paradise
Farm will convince you that all Mr.
Roosevelt says about farming is wOrtl
5 while
Everything the market affords /:
o. produced on this farm Hence the
- high-priced food problem here is no
a knotty question. They have many
horses, mules, oxen, swine, chickens
e } turkeys, apple trees, peach trees
\ cherry trees, all kinds of berries, beau
] tiful flowers. chestnut trees, walnut
- trees, and great towering pines anC
. oaks. To see those stately oaks, deer
] covered with moss, reminds one OF
S TennySOn's Talking Oak" The
scenery is magnificent! Goldsberry
r mountains, clothed in verdant vines
= Nat-Lu-Park, with its sweet-scenteC
: shrubbery; 'the Lucinda Picnic
= Grove" high, shady, and lovely. for
2 pleasure seekers, are among the at
: fractions of Paradise Farm.
Mrs L. S. Chase Goldsberry IS {
= most wonderful woman, having beer
E reared and educated in Washington
/, and being principal of one of the Iarg
/ est schools in the city up to the time
of her marriage to Lawyer Goldsber
' ~. and never before living on a farm
% until now 1t hardly seems possible
y that she has developed into a full
i fledged, up-to-date farmer. She her
5 self cares for about five hundret
: chickens The henery yields dozen:
+ of eggs daily, which she ships tC
e. market She mounts the machinery
y drives the horses over the farm, anC
n plants the seed the same as Mr.. Colds
j berry
t Paradise Farm Is located in Nelso,
T. County, Virginia. in two forks O
h Buffalo and Tye Rivers. 1t is on,
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