The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1910-10-06
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How do you dOf'
The speak horseback
entire in the locality The other walking and they
had lonely road back county gorge Neither
How far is II to Mr-'sY" asked the stranger
miles guess said the other; then pro-
ceeded to do most of the talking.
"You don't to live close about here"
NO. my home is quite distance from here"
'WhereH If you don't mind telling
ooh, live way over in the - valley"
care there any good farming lands theref"
Eyes, our county has great many real good farms
Can they be bought pretty cheap"
Now and then there is farm for sale but they usually bring
good price Are you wanting to 6uy|
yes have been living farm on the head Of the branch
here forty years entirely and
land to clear and can't make living ON any longer
The stranger did not encourage questioner move
his way his thoughts in the following veins
"On forty gears and fast field wds exhaust
cleared and all the land is cleared and all
out That not farming and re don rant o kna o. men
end cOuId be starvation for he'Eee"
had all that What the remedy These people
could live long they had little neef or coal to SELL but
after that what?
This questionable serious that contents the
people Kentucky The remedy is not hard to outline
The strangers mind did not TO work till he had
found the solution Buthe himself admitted that the application
is easy the theory
Education the remedyindustrial education But that
very kind that appeals the least Where the inspiration to
the study agriculture when he sick OF the farm and all
them illustrated his fathers
gradually dying farm Where is the inspiration to study
tryS The carpenters he is familiar with have known but little
making living the farmer of
his acquaintance And where the inspiration the girl to study
and like her brother if she to school ALL
will the hope of getting training that will take her entirely
that drudgery Neither the boy the girl
the schools give such training will make both
the and the work in the house pleasure and
profitable And neither do the them
shouldn't people be trained do the things they
will thru life? The home and the farm
the which both the life and that which
plies e tchy housekeeping and f0Gangf
Away idea that only children school to make
teachers DOCTORS preachers out OF them
But again up the parents II they asleep, what
be expected chldren time ago editorial
showed learn they should in school the
with the the want Of the atmosphere OF the
school in the home-books, pictures, magazines.
equal il greater force that il parents
want children trained in the things that fe
they back from school trained the industries
the old farm and Guy the old home within
instead Of being estrangd from the home by their
education ready distant state the
parents give the inspiationthey must begin
the making the farm productive the home beautiful and
the farm life attractive and profitable
And howY Suppose the has been dying for forty years.
is now worn and the farmer himself is fifty of
age Even then him read the articles In
tene Farming The CITIZEN let him do more-spend two
three Clark the Berea Farm and Mr. Mulett in
the aud he will home il he has ordinary ntei
gnce with enough knowledge old mountain farm
inspiration to knde in his children desire for
the training well of the head and tie that
will him when he sends his children Beea
elsewhere will be the Industrial courses