Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-08-16

friends and relatives. She has seen
that all the convenlences OF city homes
are duplicated in the country. She
has admired the spacious lawns and
beautiful grounds of some of the best
of the city houses, but she has been
Observant enough to note that such
houses belong only to the few. She
has gone to the theater With her
friends and enjoyed 1t. but no more
than she enjoys the homemade the
atricals in her home town or the plays
and lectures she has attended in the
larger country towns by trolley. She
has been surprised to find that her
friends In the city do not Know their
next door neighbor The excuse that
they are not In our set has puzzled
her democratic little soul. 1t is diff
ferent In the country, where every one
sympathizes with every one else's sor-
rows and laughs with all in their joys.
The girl comes back from a trip to
the city better satisfied than ever with
her country home. Her father may
not be worth more than $1,000 or $lO,-
600 or $4,000 measured in money. but
his house and grounds are equal in all
essential respects to many of the mil
lionaires' residences she saw in the
city. Her girl friends in the city were
coaxing their father to buy them an
automobile SO that they could ''go
somewhere" The country girl and her
mother have horse and buggy that
are sacred to their use. The horse is so
gentle that he will not even bat his
eyelid at an automobile and the buggy
so shiny that they are proud to be seen
anywhere in 1t. They can hitch up
and go where ana when they please
The laundry In the basement has TAX
en- away the terrors of wash day. The
conveniences in the kitchen haze great
~ lessened the work of feeding the
hungry men folks
The farm reading table is strewn
with the latest magazines. and the girl
ha' piano or at least an organ. A
piano dealer in one Of the middle west
ern states recently told me that he
sold fifteen pianos to the farmers in
one township last year. If the farm.
er's daughter wants piano he is go
ing to get it for her He may have to
raise few more hogs next year to pay
for it. but that Is easily done.
Taking everything together. any com
PARSONS that the country girl may be
able to draw are favorable to the farm.
She has been raised in the open air.
The pigs and the calves and the chick.
ems are her playmates. The colts will
come when she whistles. for who ever
heard of country girl who couldn't
whistle? She can name all the trees
in the wood lot. and she knows the
note of every bird that sings in their
branches. Every day is full of sun
shine. and she sings for the very joy
of living where air Is free and room is
not bought and sold.
She still longs for career. but it is
q career Of different sort. She wants
to live the rest OF her life on the farm.
and she looks forward to the day when
she will go into partnership With some
ambitious. resourceful young farmer
To be successful wife. to help make
the most out Of the old farm and to do
her part to make her community the
most progressive in the country-this
is the career that appeals to the mod
ern country girl. Schools have been
provided to teach her the things she
needs to know about her coming bust
ness. If she Is in one Of the most up
to date communities. she begins to
learn sewing and cooking in the rural
school. If not given there. it comes
in the high school or the preparatory
school or the small college All OF