The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-11

That's just the kind of a farm I've
been looking for" said the farmer. The
agent smiled, but the farmer did not
seem to understand the cause for the
smile at first 1t finally dawned upon
him, however, that the advertisement
described his own place.
He had listed his property with this
same real estate agent only few days
before. He had told the agent that the
old farm home didn't suit him at all,
and he was anxious for change. He
had pictured to himself the kind OF a
farm which he thought would appeal
to him, not realizing until he saw a
description OF his own farm in print
that he was then in possession of just
what he wanted.
The old saying that men and women
are but children older grown seems to
state a fact very clearly.
When boy passes the teens mark
a thought seems to fit into his mind
! apparently from nowhere that his
home surroundings are not what they
ought to be. Any place, he thinks to
! himself is far superior to home. He
can't hardly see how he has stood, or
endured, the home surroundings as
long as he has. So he gets the idea in
to his head that the best thing for him
to do is to leave home-get away from
everything about him, get away from
his brothers and sisters who do not
seem to hold him in the correct light
of mportance-father seems too bossy
a ~ n~ sr1r tLof l,
should be a goody, goody boy.
1t doesn't take boy or a girl either
very long to realize what the old
home is to them when they have been
away from it for short time. 1t looks
! mighty good from a distance. and
there is a feeling comes to them that
father, mother and brothers and sis
tiers are pretty desirable companions
after all.
This farmer, after seeing the de-
scriptiOn of his own place began to
j think a little and he said to the agent,
Il believe that | will not sell my place
after ALL"
1t is a natural characteristic fer a
normal human being not to be salts
fled. | cannot imagine a condition,
or state of existence rather, in which
] could be absolutely satisfied. 1t
doesn't seem to be the order of things
for life to be that way II it were,
suppose we would be sending cur
souvenir post cards in the form Of a
giant boulder with a few crude hero
/ glyphics chisled on it's surface.
| believe, however, that our discon-
tent can be carried too far, and often
times may cause us much grief. Just
| how far we should let our dissatisfac-
| ton lead us is hard to say. 1t is like
! the advice often freely given regard
| ing economy. We are advised to be
! economical but when we get too econ
| omical then halt is called because
we are miserly. An apple, they say,
should be ripe when we eat it, but it
can become over ripe-so it is with
our discomfort.
My advice to any farmer who is to-
! day making good living and little
besides on his farm is to be sure to
thoroughly consider a change before
he makes it.
Sometimes. we get the idea that
most any neighborhood would be bet.
! ter than the one in which we are liv,
! ing, and we can get sore and Disguised
with everything around the place
this feeling generally comes on the
gloomy days. If buyer would only
| come along, we think to ourselves
when in this mood, we would sell out
! for most any price he would offer. We
don't mean half what we say to our
selves at these times, and if someone
should come along and tell us they
were going to take the place whether
we wanted to sell it or not we would
! be up in arms in a minute.
I You don't believe this? Let me see
if cannot site an instance not so very
far away. ~
| Out near the Easthaven Institution
are several farms which thes state
would like to purchase to add to the
Easthaven asylum property. This fact
has stirred up quite turmoil amongst
the farmers out in that direction,
Perhaps many of these farmers have
at times thought to themselves that
they didn't like this neighbor or that
they didn't like that neighbor and
that most any other place on earth
would be preferable to that com
munity-if they could only sell out
they say to themselves, at a reason
able price, they would do So
| Nou the noiphborc all Jootr oood .