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Show RETIRING IN THE 'COUNTRY. In an address recently to the citizens citi-zens of Manhattan, Kansas4, Prof. A. M. Ten Eyck saicj, Jn jecrring to. farmers who "retire" to the town: "Neither a farmer nor his wife falls in with city ways; they arc used to the ways of the .country and they are too old to change, and often live unsatisfied un-satisfied livens, in town, pining for the! old home o"nthe farm, Hqw much batter for them and for the coilntry community, if they coud retire from active business and still remain in fbc UltQr, juid 'instead of building a house jn tjf,4bujld new home, iicar the old 9ne,Scm3ycd from fc"1 Wrt c' o(JgJwoUfere Mr, "Farmer could plod along among his trees and vines andIrs. Farmer could care for and enjoy) Jicr new home and both could have leisure to take part in all the good works pro- iVosc?d to make the country more pros- p-erous, more agreeable and more v$n- joyablc, and in this day and age with - , . the qtr.r money which it.would take to maintain the city home they might have their automobile and drive to "town ifny day to trade and sqc the sights with never a thought of time or distance. If farmers would take up this practice of retiring in 'Uie .country, the country would soon be supplied with all the advantages of the city; with good roads, rurali-dc-livcry, .rural railways, electric lights, telephones, and local water and' sewerage sew-erage systems." , , |