The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

One can readily see that folks are be-
ginning to appreciate the comforts OF
home more, or they are making home
more comfortable. Numbers of women
are asked by us each day. both residents
of the city and shoppers from out the
state. where will you spend your sum
mer?s oh, at home: we cannot lind
such comfort anywhere else. Perhaps
later on We may take a trip for week
or two. but for a genuinely pleasant time.
home is the real place to take life easy
and keep COOL
Riding around. even through the remote
country places. we find the porches are
being more appreciated as places to live,
eat and sleep, and the galleries are be-
ing screened to keep out the enemy to
health-the fly.
Tic country homes are being supplied
with every commodity of the city, with
mooern lighting system and waterworks,
a.sd lee NOW co not nov have the bath
privileges Just as perfect as we who live
in the city. With large grounds and
plenty Of shade with food supply grow
ing In your sight, it is no wonder the
people are beginning to stay at home dur
ing the long heated months. One lady
asked, Isn't Il strange for SO long time
We We're suftocated with nets to keep
out the mosquito and the fly? Just to
think of the pure, fresh air we get and the
| protection from these unfriendly visitors
| by process OF screening the houses .
People are making closer study of the
details of living preyentives rather than
cures. The reasoning faculties are being
cultivated by a system of training along
| all the avenues of life. OF course the pro-
cess seems slow to those who are handling
the problems, but to the onloolIers won
derful stride has been made in n course
of few years. Think of the malaral
districts being so infested in the past
| that families would vaeate their homes
for the mountains in early spring and
| remain away until heavy frost Now. in
stead of leaving home they are remedying
the evil, destroying the cause by scientific
| treatment. and many of these old home
steads today are ideal summer homes
| They are no longer inaccessible, the
good roads are being extended over the
country, and in summer time the natura
prairie road of the black belt is equa
to any macadamized highway that has
| been constructed, though in winter, after
a rain. they defy travel
| 1t is wonderful. too to see the inya slor
of the automobile; everywhere you hear
their warnings that they are on the way
and neighbors at miles distance are right
within your reach in a few minutes
drive
The old folks who sleep in the eeme-
teries the roadside would never have
predicted such a future for the country
from the chaos that retarded the progress
] of their period-that following the loss of
, fortune during the war times. The coun-
| try has begun to bloom again with the
introduction of new farming methods, ma
chinery and a market ready for its prod
ucts
Think for years what a nuisance the
johnson grass was to the canebrake.
even the sandy lands; today it is a source
of profit, and the johnson grass hay is
in demand among foodstuffs. Cattle rails
| ing is being made profitable and a better
| grade of stock is being introduced on all
farms. even though only for family use.
| The home-maker realizes the best is the
cheapest in the end. One south Ala
| hama plantation in the last few years
| converted into a Jersey stock farm, pur-
chased a few months ago a Jersey bull
at cost of $4,000. Think of the manifest
| faith in what good stock will mean to our
market.
Such enterprise and activities as are
| seen in the home life today is forced to
make the life more interesting, more COM
Portable and more enjoyable. Some years
back, before farming became a study in
stead of a theory, at this season of the
year king cotton was watched an in
| FAINT. 1t was either too hot or too cold
| the rust or the worm. Today cotton Is
more of an incident. the diversified crop
| has reinforced their income and If the
cotton crop is short, starvation isn't such
| a close neighbor.
The habit of leaving home each year