The Pulaskian., 1920-02-06
LIFE AT ITS BEST
.dvantaces of Dwelling in Coun-
 try Town.
u., Knows Nothing of the Sweet '', ,a..ntment That Is the Lot of the Resident of Rural
 Places.

observing the inconvenience and
 ,otinoes discomforts of city life, s0ns' % of inc brethren of the country sOnrs rs are taking shot at the city poror and emphasizing the fortu- use .o position of the citizen who con- p%, .s,Tas to spend his life in some quiet tan,n of the country, says writer Tn .So .S Seattle Post-Intelligeneer. The us ,+rv gentleman never cares wheth- ~ tbe street cars run or not; he IS
 o4 concerned with the electric light 1,on+ ar the water supply, having his pa,,obla kerosene lamps and a good well in working order for emergency
 so Ha is not afraid that 100000 of s,s towns1nen will run out of coal at amoo and freeze to death, because the s,a crove on the east forty is capable of furnishing his fuel should his sup u,u of five cords of sawed and split rood fiat he has in his woodshed be- ooma depleted. He lives away from tho mass. and his small wants are mi pushed and crowded by the small wonts of hundreds of thousands of otbor neople. He feels that if there ,s anything that he really needs that bo does not possess, he can go out md nrocure it any morning without much trouble, and he is generally quite right about it.
 Charles NJ. Forton, of Hadley, N. T., rites the cases of the city and the country citizens in recent issue of Golfers Weekly. Writes MT. Horton
 The man who started the back-to- the-farm movement had something! 1! The man who shouted Rack to na- ture," said something; The advice was directed at city dweIlers, of course, because folks who were living out of the cities already did not need it.
 He takes up the case of the $25 a week married man, who hardly exists in the city, and shows what he is ac- complishing in the country town:
 A clerk in the store here gets $25 week, owns his own home and a boat on the lake and a jitney, goes hunting in the north woods in the fall, fishes evenings and days off without number, picks berries, kills his own beef in the fall, raises his own pigs, has piano and library and a silver service and linen, modern pictures on the walls, good rugs on the floors, mis- sion furniture around the rooms, twin beds, dog, two cats, a bear rug, low ceilings, plain wall paper, electric fix tures-eyerything, in short, that the city dweler has, or wants, but can't haye-and he is a clerk in a grocerJ store at $25 a week. And he had thest things when he was getting S1S-si, months ago, before he got raise had more, in fact, because he owned a trotting horse that could go some; this animal has since died.
 The writer himself was beguiled rom the country to the city under the cmmon belief that the city is the only place for the man of ambition who would go far. He had brains, in measure; he had money, in a measure. ana then he tossed the whole thing up m the air and made back for the coun- uy' Where he now exists in content meht. And when one sees city folk oeueVlled and harassed and bepinched oy every human want. living from nand to mouth, and worrying lest sVne necessity of existence be cut off " some whim of man or yagary of ia'e' one is inclined to give the argu- ment Of the country citizen large value and credence.