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Show THE BOY .ON THE FARMAND ...AFTER , I ; J . f jv, s . ' .1 Til Philadelphia Public Ledger: Thef boy born 'on the farm has fcasonsforv? 5 ""if 7 'being' grateful. ITc is apt 40 begin life, with the heritage of health upon.' which .to build.- He is not isolated,'.. as' a few decades ago. The probabili-; ty is that the mail is brought to his?, door; that there is available a't'cle-fc vf phone service. The school withinj- reach is as good as the. school of the. city, with better sanitation and a bets ter nigral atmosphere. The amuse-..?' ments, simple as they may be; arc , as instnijctivc and -as elevating as- the ohcap theatres. Yet the boy, getting 4 to the age of lfberty, leaves the farm, J where he would have developed into 1 a subst-ant5 citizen, and hurries tpi tc city, in winch the chances are that he will attain no more individ- uality, than one fly jiitf.a ' myraid rwarm. , ' When this boy arrives-at an age of more serious discretion he regrets that he elected to make bootless conquest con-quest of the city, but it is too late. IP he has been one. of the exceptional exception-al successes he may purchase the old farm from the hands of strangers; but if wealth has not crowned his efforts, ef-forts, and generally it has not, he has to let the years pass while vainly he yearns for the -country that once had seemed so dreary. He had wanted to bear the damor of traffic instead of the song of birds, the rustic of ripening ripen-ing fields; and the traffic has become a deafening roar. He. learns to place a new value on peace, to respect a new standard of happiness. But all this comes too late, when strangers till the acres of his fathers. There arc farmers who make their lives narrow and hard, and to youth hateful. They fairly drive the boys away. There is no excuse for this. The farmer boy is entitled to his vacations, va-cations, to reasonable hours, his social relaxations, his visits to the city. But among the many, thousands of boys who have been inipcllcd toward the city there is arising a wave or reaction. re-action. Among the new generation of farmer boys, alert, intelligent, reading read-ing papers, books and magazines, getting get-ting an insight into the world's realities reali-ties without hardening and dispiriting contact with thcni there is forming als n o'pinion that the country is the cttcr' place, the place for greater enjoyments,; surer returns, fewer temp-tations, temp-tations, a saner and vmorc satisfactory existence. |