The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1920-02-06
LIFE! /! /: !: At ITS / 5 BEST! B :: 81!
Advantages Of Dwelling in Coun-
n: try Town. >> {: =, =. =
City Man Knows Nothing Of the Sweet
E *contentnent That Is the Lot Of
t3. 5G'% {: W. .;,@ the Resident Of Rural = -.

/ Observing the Inconvenience and
sometimes discomfOrts Of city life.
some of the brethren of the country
press are taking a shot at the city
dweller and emphasizing the fortu-
nate position of the citizen who con-
trives to spend his life In some quiet
town Of the. country, says a writer In
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The
country gentleman never cares wheth-
er the street cars run or not; he is
not concerned with the electric light
plant or the water supply, having his
reliable kerosene lamps and good
we'll in working order for emergency
use He. is not afraid that 100000 OF
bis townsmen will run out of coal at
: once and freeze to death. because the
old grove on the east forty is capable
of furnishing his fuel should his. sup
ply Of five cords of sawed and split
wood that he has in his woodshed be-
come depleted. He lives away from
the mass, and his small wants are
not pushed and crowded by the small
wants Of hundreds Of thousands Of
other people. He feels that If there
lis acything that he really needs that
he does not possess, he can 60 out
and procure 1t any morning without
much trouble, and he is generally quite
right about it,. :; os<~~.f- o-T r. : ..s~s~}
Charles n. Eorton, of Hadley, N. T.,
cites the cases Of the, city and the
country citizens in a recent issue Of
Golfers Weekly. Writes Mr.. Horton;
= The man who started the back>to-
the-farm - movement had something! :!
The man, who shouted Back to ma
ture. !" said something; The advice was
directed at city dwellers. Of course,
because folks who were living out Of
the cities already did not need 1t.
:. 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 SIS
Z week, owns his own home and q
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 silver
service and linen, modern pictures on
the walls, good rugs on the floors, mis-
sion furniture around the rooms, twin
beds. q dog. two cats, a bear rug, low
ceilings, plain wall paper, electric fix
lures everything, in short, that the
city dWeller has. Of wants, btu cart
have--and he is. clerk in a@grocery
tore at SIS a.week.= And he had these
hings when he was getting $18-stx
onths aSostbefore he got 4 raise
ND more in fact, because he owned
G trotting horse that could go some {;
Ills animal has since died.
q The writer himself was beguiled
0cem the country to the city under the
nmon belief that ths city is the only
lace for the man OF ambition Who
would go far. He had brains. in a
lneasure: he had money, in a measure.
And then he tossed the whole thing up
T. the air and made back for the coun-
~, where he now exists in content
nent. And when one sees city folk
6edeviled and harassed and bepinched
~ every human want, living from
land to mouth, and worrying lest
some necessity Of existence be cut of
BY some whim Of man or vagary Of
fate, one is inclined 10 give the argu-
!nent Of the country citizen large value
nhd rrodonno
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