The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-05-21
CONVtNIENCES ON THE
FARM HAVE INCREASED
IN LAST FEW YEARS
MANY FARMERS HAVE ALL AID.
VANTAGES OF THOSE LIV.
ING IN THE CITIES.
KORE SHOULD HAVE COMFORTS
Farm Life Will Be More Attractive
in Proportion as These Grow in
Number-Water, Lights, Automo.
bIes and Fare.
(By Capt. T. F. Peck.

The happiness and comfort of the
human race center in the home. The
home has all to do with what life
is to us, what we get out of our stay
on earth. This is where mankind
lives, where they go to rest from
their toll, and by this we may Judge
their care of or in life. For ages
young and old, rich and poor have
crowded toward the cities simply be-
cause the opportunities for supplying
the conveniences of the home. The
city with its sewerage, its water sys-
TEN, its lighting plants and heating
apparatus has been the envy of the
country, time out of mind.
But thanks to the progress of the
age, the country is fast catching up
with the city in the matter of enjoy
able things. We would not have the
reader think for a minute that the
thing that makes life a JOY and a
pleasure are are anything like so uni
versally in the country as in the city,
but the idea that we wish to convey
is that the conveniences of the coun-
try home are no longer an unsolvei
problem as they were Is or 20 years
ago. The progress of mankind is
rapidly placing the delightful things
we are pleased the modern conVen-
fences in reach of the man on the
farm.
Among these everlasting hills the
country home may be supplied in
many cases at less cost than the
city resident has to pay. The difficult
ty in the years gone by has been to
provide the individual plant at cost
that would not in most cases be pro-
hibitive. Today the Injuries of the
country home do not stop at hot and
cold water and sewerage. These are
essential, but the telephone connect
ing country homes and the city ena-
bles friends to exchange friendly
greetings is no small thing in coun-
try life.
The rural mail is another matter
that compares favorably with the free
delivery of the city. Then to add to
all this comes the automobile divid-
ing the country home from the city,
stores, the theatres or churches only
by so many minutes.
These are the things the city peo-
pie enjoy and there are some things
vouchsafed to country life that the
city has not room for. These are the
fresh milk and butter, the cream and
the buttermilk The fresh vegetables
and fruit all home grown, together
with these tempting rations come
poultry and eggs. But the farmer
takes these things as matter Gf
course He has always had these on
the farm and does not make any ado
over them. They are, things that
have ever been the pleasure of the
country class. The people Of the city
don't know what good living is when
it comes to crisp stuff for table use.
They are further of from the en-
joyment of the delightful than the
farmers wife who is without the
equipment that makes life so easy.
The city conveniences must ere long
be classed as home comforts whether
in city or town or country, and must
be sooner or later regarded as neces-
stiles. The family unaccustomed to
these things does not know their val
ue but once their are introduced it
seems impossible to get along with
out them.