Evening star., 1932-02-27
The city is full of farmers.
Did YOU ever stop to realize that,

The city is full Of farmers.
Did you ever stop to realize tnat'
now?
People who want to go to bed early
and get UP early, instead Of going to
bed late and arising late.
Men and women whose innate sym
pathies run back past the automobile
to the plow, who still think OF a sleigh
ride as the finest on earth.
The pull of the city is the wrong
way for them.
It is toward the outside rather than
the inside, toward the show of" spirit
in man, rather than quiet accept
ance of life as it is.
The city tends to take a family out
of the home into the bright lights, 70
make people dissatisfied with what
they have and are because they see
so many others who have so mucn
more.
1t tends to make the home mere
stopping place, and in many instances
has turned 1t into q sort OF glor1neo
bar room.
The city farmer, If he may be called
that, never gets over certain character
istics. No matter how much he tries to
like the life of the crowd, he finds
himself withdrawing from 1t as far as
he can.
1t is not always possible, of course,
so one finds these misplaced farmers
living in apartments, where the near
est they can come to the soil is
small windowbox filed with petunias.
The city farmers wire, whose right
full place Is in vegetable patch, gets
along as best she can with a colored
Trffl
vine, the wandering jew.
The city farmer has several charac-
teristics, which set him apart from the
crowd Of those who are more easily
led, who do not exactly know their own
minds, who continue to live lives not
altogether congenial to them, and yet
wonder why they are unhappy.
X X X X
The city farmer, the true country
man at heart, may be recognized by
three or four characteristics, the first
of which is going to bed with the
chickens" as they say.
Even the small towns today are suf-
fering from cityitis, which proclaims
that to be fashionable, "in the know.
strictly up-to-date and truly sophisti-
Gated one must select late hour for
retiring.
But what a lie this sort of life is fol-
the average mani
1t had its origin among class Of
human beings who could lie abed In
the morning, who got up late. who had
their dinner late, and who conSe-
quently went to bed late.
That thousands of human beings
who have no business aping such q
mode Of living do SO shows but one
thing, that they ape it, not that they
should or that 1t Is best for them.
1t Is because they try to live as
their best interests call for them not
to live that one sees so many people
yawning in the public vehicles, on the
streets and In offices.
Here Is a youngster who Is making q
small salary as Stenographer, yet out
she goes to dances and parties, get
ting in at and o'clock, night after
night. One might think her q million
aire, but she is not, and has to be at
work next morning at 9 o'clock. If she
gets up at o'clock, she gets 4 hours
of rest; If at 8, hours.
The city farmer goes to bed early
because it is natural for him to do so
He loves to arise in time to see the
dam. He may never have handled q
plow, but "early to bed and early II
rise" Is In his makeup.
X X X
A liking for old clothes is imbeddec
in the fiber Of the countryman, whether
he lives on the farm or in the city.