| Show rIlE OLD Ar hOME IX NEV E The dwellers In Ne t I little villages and on its fill scattered farm It they ore oung energetic love loe their native region or have nn ony ambition to RIG stay hore fate tAlo hoc hM placed them Instead they turn lurn longing eyes nod seek Hek excuse and unity to lo shift their to cen centore tore or of trade anti hurrying life lInt once let the desire to 10 go be gratified and the past takes on a bright hue ant and the affection for tor the surround surroundings Ings grows The work and the of those receding farm torm days day are aro In the Ihl retrospect l very r sweet The skies were bright then the no carefree and the that was home seems to alt an unusual de degree TN gree blessed an anti 1 delightful But to very er nanny of the young and le of our cities the thing that binde them closest to 10 the Now country Is the tue tart fact that It I is still the home of at the old folks New rUI rugged od hills and alluvial vial al alles leyn les have hae been n a nursing ground for pioneering and ond for city enterprise from earliest slays of oC theIr history It I is doubtful If this is III true IrUe to nn any like dl de degree Int gree of an any part or of the There is II something In the air or soil soli or mental environment that makes the nestlings as soon IOn as the they got get their growth want to 10 try their wings One IJ by one they lea leave but tim old folks tolk an ana a rule MIlt eta behind That the old should stay tay I is of often often ten a necessity yet et it II is II alit allt to 10 lie he choice besIdes A sapling can lit be tennis Irons planted and takes lakes kindly to nw new soil poll but the fuli grown tree has reach log InS roots ond is II almost n a part lart of the theol spot ol whore hEr It II ilia stands ne The t feelings lIng of the tho old ore are n with lIh the life of the Iho communIty or which Ihil they rare a part their habIts are established their old trl err ate them anti their home borne end the dati daily routine ot of their latin farm work nt fit them 11 an a glove 1100 does dolS the hand To tt try to them themselves selves folIS to n a different life lite would severely rl r rack ck their sensibilities Just JUIt th the moving Inlo mb another house hOUIE would lit be something or of ran on ordeal even en It If It ii were In Ih the sense arne neighborhood and even it II It were edIt better t than he one left and sire minor after ou once gt Inured to Co them So Sotire tire the daughter antI anal city ott ton be bethe the Q father mind mother to share hare their homes hi vain aln The old folks folka Iro gray and strati Infirm tanI ond still 1111 the they linger lingerIn ln In the bleak New e farmhouse through biting and lull sultry um sum mets till the end John Johnson son lIOn In Frank Monthly for November |
