Show by elbert hubbard I 1 SCHOOL FARMING city boys I 1 have said take more k adly to the bus n 3 of farming than do the country lads the rea son farmer boys sometimes hate the farm aud and are filled with the desire to get a vay from it is because they have had a double dose of the farm too much of adyth ng is bid indoor school work and farm farin ng should go hand in hani and I 1 b lieve the time will come when agn culture w 11 II be taught in the public schools food is the primal need we get our living out of th so I 1 and no man can be healthy happy or w se who is separated ion long from mother barth larth the child will dig dim in the sani be fore he can talk and nd find satis fac tion in the exercise and a inov kno v ledge of the so I 1 and of the things it will produce when rightly man 0 4 t is the foundation for 8 sanity aday 11 and efficiency in every walk of I 1 fe FT in fact mm man is th product of the so I 1 and constantly I 1 find that my kno cledge ga ned on th farm of trees plants flowers horses s vine poultry fros fro s polly bogs bugs I 1 lees ees and butter fl es forms a valuable ad to my vocabulary all nature says emerson is for symbol and suggestion everything we see should rem nd us of some thing else no man can be consid ered an educated man who is not on good terms with mother earth and with all the wonderful tangs th that creep era vl vi run cl mb bur row swim and fly there are two kinds of navies just as there are two kinds of armies one is called offensive and the other iq i called defensive but these names mean little when we consider that a defensive navy may easily become an aggressive one somewhere there must be a limit to national arma went 4 the bondage of mothers is being loosened we acknowledge that a mother is working for the state if she supports her ch idren after the death of the father that is we are making public provis on for a stated income tor for the mother we are be beginning to pay w do v moth rs for their work for the state we have at last recognized this potent fact that a mother cannot well care for one two or six children and earn enough money to supply their needs and yet present the state with de citizens so we are cons d cring the necessity of paying w dow mothers for their work 4 I 1 expect to see the day when the conversational method will be s u preme and teach ng will be done practically without books by object lessons thinking things out and do ing things 4 f we are ever damned it will not be because we have loved too nou much ch but because we have loved too to lit tie tle 4 I 1 do not want any one to belong to me I 1 would hold my friends only by the virtue that Is in my own soul 4 let health and wealth be incident tal and you 11 have them both 4 if you r thank god it I 1 I 1 a sure sign thit that you are alive 4 intellectually and morally the fit test have never survived hence an intellectual race of 4 life wr tes teg the history upon th face so that all those who have bad had a like experience can read and un der stand 4 when a man and a woman be come absolutely irksome to each oth er when m hen their heads beads are in a dif ferent stratum nd they breathe a different atmosphere atmo and ere ani have no common ends or ambitions NN hen they cannot sit in e w th each other without positive discomfort then it la is time the state should take its heavy hands off and give the man and woman I 1 bety betty unrelated peo pie give ave no joy to each other they never bring brin out the latent and un suspected po veri vers that each possess 4 it is far safer to trust a normal human heart than a critical legal mind 4 infidels do not revile christians to the same extent or degree that christians revile christians |