| Show the danners Far Fan ners nars home the hon DW D W adams master of the national grange of the patrons of husbandry in closing bis his fourth of july oration at ottumwa iowa gave the following as his idea of what the farmers home should be select the handsomest spot of all ail and erect a house of neat and tasteful proportions and convenient arrangements range ments the size ninish finish and expense will of course be governed by tile the means at command plant trees both forest and fruition fru itin such a way as to break the sweep of the winter winds donate a reasonable patch of ground to small fruits and vegetables sufficient to supply yo your tir table with abundance of all ali de hirable kinds all the tho year round mae make an acre or more of or lawn in front and around the dwelling interspersed persed here and there with some ornamental shade fraade trees evergreens ever greens and flowering shrubs train an ivy over the porch a honeysuckle on n the window hide the sheds and buildings outbuildings out with a clump of trees or climbing vines your wife and daughters will have some artistic flower beds cut in the lawn and a roe rose bush by the door while singing birds will build nests in the nees make the inside of the house attractive a pleasant place to sit with inducements sufficient to keep your sons from saloons and your daughters from the streets among the absolute necessaries of ilfe life I 1 mot mott decidedly and emphatically place amusement amusements sport fun A good ringing laugh is worth more to stir the erand liverani liv live promote digestion than a dose of calomel I 1 and a deal pleasanter plea santer to take if you ou ever come across a person oly oil old oid or young who cannot on provocation give out a good ringing noble and hearty haugli laugh watch him he is eith either elther er after your pocketbook or the undertaker joy fun laughter sterling good healthy wideawake wide vide awake happiness re among the most desirable of human attributes nothing but men can laugh do not smother but cultivate this distinctive feature of humanity especially youth must have amusements it is no matter of convenience it is a dire necessity the love of fun is born with their birth and must have vent in some form or other if it cannot be gratified at home surrounded by its hallowed influences it will seek for it abroad among dan dangerous berous pitfalls and corrupting examples you may evade the truth as much as you please and feed the youth who is starving for fun on good wholesome moral precept it will not satisfy the craving and at some unlocked unlooked for moment nature will assert its rights and seize the delightful morsel even though sod sodden en and corrupted with bitterest sin we must yield to the inevitable especially when in this case it is synonymous with the delightful and provide amusements healthful and mirthful and if at the same time you oil can include instruction all tille the better but amusements for amusements sake we must have on the lawn have croquet ball leapfrog leap frog hi spy dances chase the ril and nd other sports in which boys girls parents and visitors ganjoin can ean join in doors checkers cards backgammon jackstraws jaek jack straws thumbs up dominoes dominges dom inoes and other innocent games gamet should be always at command that the youth may not be compelled to seek them in the purlieus purlie us of vice debauchery and drunkenness vice is not attractive amusements are and thousands of youth have been compelled to encounter the one to enable them to attain the other which with the best but mistaken motives was denied them at home 1 maps books agricultural and literary papers should be supplied in abundance and this can annually be done with the money now spent for tobacco in its various forms in short a farmers homo should equal or excel in beauty attractiveness and comfort that of any other calling and then and not till then can we expect the talent the energy the ambition of our youth to seek seeka a farmers home when this becomes a fixed laet fact our girls in both city and country will not look with aversion upon the position of a farmers wife and seek alliance with a dainty youth who I 1 is s engaged gag in the manly and intellectual business of measuring out molasses and tape |
