The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1910-10-03

RETIRED FARMER FEEDING HIS PIGS.
of hardshilS. and the reward was only |
a few of life'S necessities. But these /
developed a class of hardy. |
virile nlen who have conquered the
continent and brought it IN
der mans control.
The days of pioneering on the farm |
are well nigh past. Now that the rough |
edges are worn off the true pleasure |
of life in the open is beginning TO be |
appreciated AT first people crowded |
together In the cities for protection.
later for convenience in transacting
business. The city never was intend
ed primarily as place TO live. In the
early days the cities were deserted as
soon as the danger which had forced
the people together was over. They
scattered out to their farms. where
they could live in peace and plenty.
When the development of the city
as business center began no particu-
lar provision was made for the home
life. People lived where they could.
existing for their business rather than
making their business exist for them.
In all the years in which the cities of
the United States have been develop
ing the home life always has Jagged
behind. True, some of the men who
were most successful in accommodating
wealth built palatial homes. But
there is no room in the city for many
such homes. Rather must people live
TERED one above another. layer upon
layer. On all sides. above and below.
the space in which they are free to
move at will is marked by strictly de-
fined limits. No wonder that in SUE II
circumstances man has longed for a
fourth dimension in which he could
expand.
People have endured these conditions
because it paid them to do So Bust
ness fed and clothed them, but bust
ness demanded that they be always
close at hand. They knew that some
where outside the web of paved streets
lay an open country. but they knew of
no wAv in which they could make a
living there. The stories they heard
from the country were stories of poor
" paid toll. few pleasures and q pre-
mature old age. They preferred the
discomforts to which they were accus-
toned
The coming Of electric transportation
widened the horizon of the city. 1t
made it possible for the best paid la
borers to have houses Of their own 1t
allowed the ealaried man, who put in
fewer hours, to live almost in the
country. With a glimpse Of suburban
and country life and what it really
meant to have plenty of room to
breathe. the city dweller began to cher
1sh an ambition. He began to long for
an acre of his own. with garden and
few berries and some chickens.
where he could rest and grow old.
The advance in the price of food
products made it not only possible
but comparatively easy. for the mar
VINO has given the best years of his
life to the city to retire to the coun
try. Perhaps ! should not use the
word retire. The swirling rush O,
twentieth century life has made tn,
. thought of retiring distasteful. TIL,
; ambitious man let's go his work will
reluctance. He would rather die il
, the harness than to rust away his re
: naming days in idleness But Their,
, comes time when the strongest mai
, feels his grip weaken and his min,
falter. The hard knocks of strenu
GUS life begin to make themselve
q felt The long hours grow weary o.
\ MS shoulders. Some men are situate,
9 30 fortunately that they can let 20 b.
- degrees. working as they feel like !
and turning over to others the task
OF which thev tire Most men. how
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