The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-09-20


allowance at all for interest on their
money or for the fertility which they
are selling away from their land that
/ they can hardly belieYe that the time
has come when the farmer Is getting
enough for his produce to enable him
to put farming on a business basis
Probably this change has affected no
one on the farm more than the women.
The country girl has different idea
Of career now. She lives In mod
ern farm home, or if she doesn't she
knows that such homes exist and are
well within the range of possibility for
her. She has had her longing to see
the world satisfied by visits to city
friends and relatives She has seen
that all the conveniences 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 $1O,-
600 or $4,000 measured in money, but
his house and grounds are equal In all
essential respects to many of the mil
ionaires' 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 a 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 it. They can hitch up
and go where and when they please
The laundry in the basement has TAX
en- away the terrors of wash day. The
conveniences in the kitchen have great
ly lessened the work of feeding the
hungry men folks.
The farm reading table is strewn
with the latest magazines. and the girl
has a piano or at least an organ. A
ern states recently told me that he
sold fifteen pianos to the farmers in
one township last year. If the farm
ers 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 a career. but it is
a 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