The Glenwood post., 1918-06-22
TRY TO GET POSSIBLE COM
FORTS FOR FARM INHABITANTS

all backward about providing them
selves, their homes, and those Who or
which there abide, with all the means
for good living their purses allow.
They are continually surrounded with
temptations to spend and buy and get.
Every page of every daily paper bris-
ties with bargains or near-bargains.
Every hour brings a peddler to front
door or huckster to back door. Every
trip down town means the sight of
hundred windows set in the most al
Turing manner by experts to display
the latest and best in necessaries and
luxuries.
1t is the country people who need an
occasional scolding; a reminder that
this is no longer the bleak frontier;
that parcel posts and mail orders pene-
trate the remotest sections of mountain
and plain.
In late years the desire to secure an
automobile, cream separator, silo,
better barn, more roofing for shell
ters, has diverted some of the farmers
attention from the chronic hankering
for more land. But these are, in a way,
along the same line-the worthy ambi-
tion to enlarge the business, just as the
merchant wishes to extend his business
by securing a larger stock.
The continual pressure for these
larger desirable things almost causes
the want of minor comforts for the
home and its inmates to be irritating.
Not only the farmer but all on the
place are economical in the matter of
money, habitually frugal, but as geu-
eral thing their time is also fully oc-
cupied and they have none to spare
even for making the commonest COM
forts beyond mere living. Attendance
at social picnic means harder work
next day to ''catch up' for time lost.
When the cold winter was coming on
this column presented an exhortation
IN favor of "dogging in.'' For exact
~ reverse reason, to keep the heat out,
we now argue in favor of digging in.
1t seems so needless for people to
s"elter IN the intense heat of summer
in a flimsy thin board shack, where in
winter the temperature goes to the 9TH
er extreme, while in both seasons there
IS marked superior comfort only few
feet away, if they would only 90 after
1t. 1t is not intended to ask that the
home be made a basement house: this
depends on the ideas and means of the
individual; but surely one neat room
can be placed partially below ground.
In the case of sick child, an invalid
OF low vitality, the GOODNESS of quiet
basement room at home is better and
infinitely cheaper than an expensive
Journey to a mountain resort.
Lumber is costly; yes, but even if
the price were doubled it would be
good job to build slanting shade over
that unprotected west window through
which the glaring suns rays beat in
like flames. The two broad sides of a
dry goods box which can be bought ia
town for so cents would furnish shields
for two windows, and when the Swear
hall storm comes these projections
would save several dollars worth of
glass panes.
Somewhat larger amount of lumber
necessary to make porch, but even
little bit of porch is infinitely bet
ter than none. If no longer supports
can be obtained, then a couple of fence
posts, value Is cents each, could be set
foot in the ground and spliced out to
feet with short pieces of 2x4 or Aka.
Sections of old buggy wheel tire would
splice them nicely without looking 50
clumsy as pieces of wood. Suppose the
porch is only five feet wide by ten
feet long, and the lumber costs $50 per
thousand, the surface for this porch, so
square feet, is obtained for $3.50 which
is exactly the price of a round Of
drinks before the state went dry.
OF course the objection in all this
botherstion is that Zone thing leads to
another,' and as soon as the porch Is
built one Of the kids will want a swing
tied up in it, SO there goes another
good quarter to buy rope. Then Sis
ter wants to lattice one side with laths
and grow vines. Buddy sets up his
fielding cot and wants to sleep in the
now porch At night.
In no particular can the farm people
make few cents Of money OF a few
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