The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-01-06
COUNTRY LIFE
R. w. RICE

From Idaho Home and School
December Issue)
The question is: How shall enc
man keep his son happy and content
wading around the barn lot knee
deep in filth, while his friend walks
the pearly streets Of the city in his
patent feathers and chews Wrigley's
Spearmint?"
And the other question is: How
is the farmers wife to be happy and
content in her commonplace sur
roundings while the other end of her
telephone wire reaches her city sister
in her beautiful environment"
When God wished to make Heaven
attractive to us he spoke of the CITY.
He continued talking of the CITY and
mentioned pearly gates and we'll
lighted streets. In order to interest
the covetous and attract them there
He spoke of the golden gates with
their rich hinges. Satan has added
still other attractions to Heaven and
guaranteed that when once inside you
will never more have to milk cows or
feed swine or shuck corn or grease
wagons or curry horses or clean out
eOw-stalls or ride bareback on sweaty
horses or plough sage brush soil or
quit school in the seventh grade.
Our humorous cartoonists and
funny editors picture the farmer with
long shaggy whiskers, a narrow fore
head, low and with the improper
slant, and show him eating cheese
and crackers in front of the city
hotel.
The city merchant knows what he
will do with the stuff he can not I'M
load upon the city trader, and so do
you know.
The church knows what it will do
with the preacher who cannot longer
jolly its members into righteousness
and humble egotism, and SO do you
know. Send him to preach to the
country folk.
Thescity school board knows what
it will do with the teacher who isn't
up to grade, and SO do you know,
send him to the country.
The immensely religious city wo-
man knows what she will do with all
her old short skirts and out-of-date
waists and husbands trousers Of
ancient date. and so do you know:
she will pile up treasures in Heaven
by palming them off as gift to
some country worker" in the cause
she loves SO dearly,
The architect knows where to put
finish on the house, and
that is not out in the country.
The rural mail delivery was the
thought of the town, not of the
The rural telephone was the child
of the city, not of the country.
The grange was the child of the
city, not of the country.
Organization in the country is the
offspring of the city and not of the
The farmer used to sell his best
Jersey to his city friend and keep
The old blue-milk COW for himself.
He doesn't do it that way any more.
The farmer used to go to town
md ask the merchant what he would
allow for his grain; then what he
would take for plow He doesn't
10 that way any more Good sign. |
The fond mother used to feel
pleased when Susie got a chance to
ollow up the acquaintance of some
young fellow in town, and she would
lie awake nights to further Susie's
'hances there. She doesn't do that
my more. Bingville Joe looks pretty
,ood to mother-if Bingeville Joe is
Industrious and frugal
The locomotive is a civilizer; so
5 the shirt waist, The farmers wife
as discovered the fact. A four dol
ar shirt waist will do more good
han sermon toward Country Life
appiness. A Dormer window
oothes he. spirit and cupalo takes
* the bumps while ninety cents
yard" sounds better than thirteen
ents a yard" and farmers are begin
ing to see it. 49,.
A lawn mower sings sweet song
s it cuts the grass about your door,
ut the yearling mule is offensive.
he farmers wife has thought this
ring out. |,
A little piece of statuary brings
~ to the shady porch and you do
OF have to scrub after 1t as you do
'r the barred Plymouth Rocks and
uff Orpingtons; consequently the {
Irmer's wife invests in a chicken /