Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1914-09-25

Is working in the city and see what
she says about this. Every breath
she draws, all her time and all her
strength. every particle of the bodily
and mental force she has belong to
the man who pays her her weekly
wages. Talk about comfort! She
does not know what it is. How
many, many times she wishes she
We're back on the farm!
May | now come TO the last of the
superstitions mentioned above, that
OF shame On account of the farm life?
There, am persuaded, is one OF the
greatest reasons why girls choose
anything rather than farm life. They
look at heir fathers and their broth
ers and compare them with the men
ard boys of the town and they sec
that fathers hands are rough and
calloused With hard work, and that
the clothes brother wears are not as
fine on week days as are those of
the boys downtown.
There IS the comparison, and il
hurts a little bit to know that her
own cloth IS are nor just as neat nor
are there us many of them as has the
girl from town. And she is a little
bit ashamed OF it all and wishes she
might get away where folks have IA
better chance to be somebody Be
jng somebody counts for so much.
you know, sometimes.
1t will pay to make the life OF the
farm just as helpful and just as at
tractiye rs we possibly can. How
can it be done? BY thinking more
OF the personal appearance of every
body about the farm. | know some
kinds of work can not be done with a
white shirt on, but there are pretty
shirts that are not white. and mother
may have neat, dressy suit, even If
she is doing housework. The boys
and girls may have things to wear
that will make them feel just as well
clothed as anybody downtown. Then,
too, there ought to be good book
and papers and music in every farm
home. 1t is better to put some money
into these things and keep the boys
and girls with us than to lay it away
in the bank and lose those we love
so we'll. There ought to be nice, at
tlactive rooms for everybody. The
boys and the girls love pretty little
things that do not cost much, but
which do help to make the room at
tTactive.
Then, 90, the farmer and his wife
ought to live better than they do.
| don't mean eat better food, though
that is a good thing, but | do mean
they should get out and mingle with
folks more and be part of the little
world in which they live. The farm
er is now the best citizen there is in
this country; he is going to be still
better Thought, inventive genius
and the whole trend of events are all
the time pushing him that way. And
he is quick to respond. He is re-
spending.
Every farmer boy and girl ought
tC be given some definite, actual part
in the farm work and it's returns. No
use talking, there is an attraction
about having little money one may
call his own. Along with this there
is the greatest need that the young
felix's should be helped to understand
the world and the possibilities of
money. The worst thing in the world
is money in the hands of a young
man or young woman who has alb
no idea what it costs or what
may be done with it when properly
expended.
Not all the responsibility for pleas
ant home life rests on the parents.
An active interest in the farm opera
tions on the part of the young peo-
ple, a purpose to be help to father
ard mother, and not be always COM
planning, will generally be rewarded
with greater consideration by the
parents.