Milford chronicle., 1924-12-26

En routes
Middle-aged women on this trair
have beautifully quiet. peaceful
faces.
Consider the couple sitting across
the aisle in the dining car. They
come from a farm, their hands
and complexion show it.
The light and fire are dim in
his pale gray eyes. Many weary
miles his feet have walked behind
the plow and the harrow; many
miles he has driven over bad
roads in a slow, rocking buggy to
and from the town.
His shoulders are bent by heavy
weights, and worry has left deep
wrinkles. But that is over, the
life of hard work has brought its
seward. The children are settled.
She sits next to the window,
booking out at the kind Of country
she has known for fifty years. Big
brown fields, stretching away to
the horizon. Stacks Of straw that
would be worth $50 q ton in the
city, but it doesn't pay to ship
them, houses in the hollow where
the cold settles, tree3 planted to
break the force Of the wind from
the north.
Her face is peaceful, happy as
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Jap. For the first time in her life
there is nothing that she ought TO
be doing.
Earnest, patient, calm and beau
eiful Is her face, as she looks out
ct the changing scene. And still
more beautiful her expression, as
she takes the things that the
waiter brings and arranges her
husbands breakfast. She will not,
while she lives. lose the habit Of
taking care of him.
Here is not the face that
launched a thousand ships or
burned any towers, anyway. It's
better than that.
It's the face that weaned a
thousand calves, cooked thirty
thousand meals for family and
farm hands, sewed and mended
and washed for a family of chill
dren, caring for them in sickness
and health, helping with the chores
and economical on herself.
ATIIo Is&AJo Ill ,v~;AI, Al. ,.,,.Ir
and the plaid dress, she is our
youngest granddaughter. Our |
daughter will be lonely without !
her. But they are letting us take
her for little while so she can see
the country while she is young. |
We had to wait a long while"
Every dollar they take with
them, to provide for a well-earned
old age Of peace, and rest, is a
dollar raised by hard work. Crops
raised by their hands have fed
thousands. For every dollar they
have had, the public has had ten
dollars in value.
Happy is this nation in possess
ing such States as California and
Florida, in which those that have
worked hard may spend their lat
ter years, prolOnging their lives
and enjoying the results Of hard
and useful work.
Those now living win see in
California and in Florida cities
greater than any now on earth.
They will not be cities Of crowded,
windy streets, but cities that will
cover millions Of square miles,
spreading over hills and valleys,
with beautiful roads and great
landing fields for flying machines,
that viii bring swiftly through
the air passengers that the trains
now carry slowly. S
The East and Northeast will .
send their millions to Florida. T
The Middle West and Northwest
will send them TO California. Cali a
fOrnia and Florida will send back il
TO the North energetic young peO- a
PIE to work in the colder climate.
The development Of this nation t.
has only begun. California or Flor Il
ida could easily feed, under inten- il
sIve cultivation, the entire popu- II
latiOn Of the United States, and +,
Texas could feed the population
of the world. ~
With the flying machine fully v
developed, all the people Of the
earth could find beautiful DWELL n
Ing places on hills and mountains . .
now uninhabited.
Nothing to worry about, over 7
:rOwding least of all, if the people q
:ombine imagination and common !,
Ienses