Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-02

JsN a week. he was glad to pay the fares back to get rid of them.
 One couldn't stand 1t because he wasn't able to get his beer three times a day: another refused to- get up be- fore seven o'clock in the morning.. another took 1t as an insult that his wife was asked to come down to the kitchen at five a. m. and help her employers wife get. break1ast an5 other declined to work more than eight hours a day. even in emergen- lcies: one was so all fired lazy that, the minute his employers back was turned, he would stop work and. when blamed for it, get mad and demand to know if they thought he was mig ger slave' and didn't need any rest: all of the families denounced him, by the feminine mouth, because he didn't his tenant -house. with sewer connec- tions from kitchen sink and bath tub: some couldn't stand it because it was so noisy, nights. and some be- cause it was so quiet, days: one fam fly gave it up because therea were no cement sidewalks for the children to roller-skate on, and another because the wife couldn't have her daily shop ping and show window round.
 Another neighbor, himself a city man and therefore, of course, free from suspicion of. being rurally nar- TOW and opinionated and stingy and cranky. etc, has been bringing speci- mems of the city unemployed ssup with him, every summer, for six or eight years, to take care of his place and do the farm work on it. Not one has he ever succeeded in getting for a second year: only once has one staid so long as three months. and then on- ly because his employer .resolutely fn m n, capacity and paid him about four times as much as he was worth. Farming is both business and . trade. It has. to be learned, as any other business and trade must be How much is a green landsman worth 1 on a sailing ship? He may be better A. B. on the craft, but when the mate
 begins to bawl out orders in tho teeth of an approaching squall he'i about as useful as an ice-creau l freezer in 8 hen-house. He's got tt i learn the ropes before be even knowl
 to pull it effectively. One traine.
 sailor is worth a score of greenhorn in a storm, even though the sailo may may not be much to look at il his baggy oilskins, with his dirt, Ehands. and his unkempt beard fou I W1LA CO01SSO Stdl1AS.
 f Many farmer isn't much to IooI at. He may perhaps wear old clothe of almost prehistoric cut: he tnay no l know much about the latest movie nor care much about the standing o ! the baseball clubs: he may make al i awkward or even grotesque figure ol his name may be MacGregor, for al
 that.
 l Another thing; The pictures whicl
 many city born and city bred peopl
 have in their minds of country lis
 are apt to be sadly untrue to nature
 They are often based on the readin
 of rural fiction,-whfch is quite a
 common in the pages of ostensibl agricultural journals as in the "all
 story magazines; ;-or on 1.-the brie
 glimpses they get of the country dur ling some short trip of summer after 1 noon.
 The real farmers life is one of har
 and sometimes gruelling work. It
 one whose hours of labor neither ar
 nor can be regulated by any unio
 scale or legislative act. being who'll
 dependent upon the whims of tn
 weather and the needs of the crops
 Moreover, it is what seems to man . people accustomed to city luxuries on I of privation. The farmer does an has to do withoit some things whic city-bredN people have come. to rt gard as daily necessities. Now, thel 5 are not a great. many real necessitie Most Of what are called. such al simply cOnveniences to which u [ users have, grown wonted and whic 5 they miss. if withdrawn. That u farms of the United States furnish a
 which are really necessary is provs
 by the fact that half the people of u t United States live on farms and sa . dom die Of starvation. But they dor as rule. have steam heat and ele, esI jtric lights. nor movie theatres on e, al cry side, nor beer shops at every co v ner, nor billiard rooms handy, n ;, big ball games twice a week, nor d
 partment stores just around the bloc t nor free deliveries many times d d f of milk and ice and meat and veg : tables. There may be grocery d 'l livery once a week and perhaps l., butchersss cart twice a week. But f
 the most part. the farmer. must mi : his own COW and put in his own i
 and raise his own meats and. veg
 tables-or go without. sEi+s>s v There is a simply &ray,aendous ri