Show ADVANTAGE OF FARM LIFE A writer thinks that it Is in a mistake of the residents of large lare cities to sup eup pose that they enjoy peculiar advantages over too toe people living jiving in the country in the increased facilities for travel for mental culture and lor for the refining influences that are generally supposed to accompany it that are to be found most moat largely developed in the city there are 21 says Bays the same writer opportunities in working on the jarm to earn a comfortable living sod anu save something every year fur many thousands it lu the citius who now spend every dollar they bey earn and who are sure eure to continue to do so while they I 1 expose themselves to the gitya city s temp tat tatiane ione it in ia a mistake to suppose that abat in the country at ai d even on the farm there is not better opportunity to really cultivate the mind than there is for thousands who have bay no time to read or think lo in the city the variety which nature offers to la a constant ulous to thought there Is ia far ar leal fees routine work on Us the farm than there in ia in the monotonous olang clang of great areas machinery which almost operates oper atea itself with the smallest care on the part of the operator time the person who is really anxious for mental improve bentean ment can find it to in either situation out its ito best beet opportunities will be lound found in the country in addition io to the conditions favorable to observation reflection and prof liable reading there is an atmosphere of freedom conducive to independence if 4 thought and action to which we the dwellers in cities and towns are strangers A large per cent or the tien nen and women who have risen to eminence have spent their early days day un on the farm arm the farmer who is ia out of jeba can withstand a financial panic which would send a larie large per cent of other business men to the he wall ftfe on the farm is conducive to physical mental sod and mural moral growth and it is to the farms that the country looks for rugged honesty independence and u swerving to so direct we the i f tirs ot government as to promote the gc general welfare slid and to secure the blee slugs of justice peace and liberty to every citizen of this great republic journal ol of agriculture |