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Show THE HOME, I K Edited by Miss Hazel Love, A. C.U. SOCIAL LIFE OF THE FARMER Ellora Kritchcner, B. Y. U. The farmer likes recreation as well as do mechanics, teachers, bankers, book-keepers, and other city folk. His life is no more complete without it, than is any one else's. Let us, therefore, sec what his advantages and disadvantages arc. As in every other vicinity, so among farmers arc found all classes of people; peo-ple; some naturally lively, others quiet and reserved never desiring to attend socials, let alone give them. Then, too, in the country, people oft n live great distances apart, which makes it hard to get a pleasant crowd tog thcr. It takes a, strong desire and an earnest effort, therefore, to arouse interest along social lines, there being so many that won't always al-ways do as you want them to. One noticeable advantage city people peo-ple injoy is in having better entertainers enter-tainers owing to their many opportunities oppor-tunities for cultivating that gift. As a compensation, ftowever, you arc treated with much more freedom and made to feel more at home on the farm. Another disadvantage on farms is in not having a large number to select se-lect your crowd from, therefore your parties cannot be choice. The -majority of people arc not apt to feel and think as you -db. But what arc you to do? Just sit down and stay at home? No, you must have some kind of amusement, even if you do have to mingle and associate with those that are not quite your ideal. In not having .parties, or social gatherings, very often people become distant and do not feel as near to each other as neighbors should. On the other hand, when parties are few nnd far between, they arc perhaps better appreciated, than in a city, where there is so much to go to in a social line, that you get tired of it. Farm life ties you especially "(hiring "(hir-ing the summer. After working from daylight until dark, you feel like do-,'ing do-,'ing nothing but go to bed just as quickly as supper is over. To think K of going to a social is anything but H pleasant. J H lif you do go, it's hard for you even fl to look pleased, and you leave all the JH entertaining for some one else. In Wk the winter time, you arc feeling your W best and arc "just aiching" for amuse- I ments. Then the roads arc so muddy and bad to travel on, that you feel and look uncomfortable and are iV5t "ffT presentable when you do get there. t Often times it is raining or snowing m IP and a piercing breeze is blowing, -T which almost freezes you stiff. Those I who go out, in such weather arc ccr- I lainly "gritty" and cam all the pleas- 11 urc they receive. But on the farms it is hard to go, j either summer or winter to many so- I cials. Therefore country people lack-in lack-in sociability and do not get all out of life that they could. 4 I U |