Show THE faier ID AND HIS american farming honor thy father and thy mother will perhaps always be considered st a binding commandment and it ought to be an easy one to obey tor for it follows only the natural inclination to reverence reveren ce ones ancestors and one Is likely to do so unless there Is a mighty good reason to the contrary the plain duty of parents seems to be to make it easy for their children to love and obey in childhood and continue to do so to the end parents must never be so occupied with work or other matters that they forget obligations to their children it is poor policy for them to work hard all their lives to acquire fine farms or other fortunes to leave to the children and at the same time forget to prepare the children to use such wealth to the best advantage how to keep the boys down on the farm when there seem to be greater attractions elsewhere Is doubtless causing hundreds of thousands of parents many nights of worry and days of anxiety tho the answer is not an easy one but it will continue to be a serious question while conditions remain as they are at present maybe a suggestion will help the father should always honor his calling as a farmer and the mother her place as a farmers wife they should not feel that is Is lacking in importance and dignity even it its rewards are not always what they should be feeling this way it will not be difficult to instill in the minds of the children a sentiment of reverence tor for the high calling ot of farming that they will not easily shake off when the lure of the city presents itself the farmer who seriously thinks himself a hayseed and who never wants to be anything else need not wonder it his children get the idea that the farra farm Is no place for them if on the other hand the father early interests his boys in agricultural matters he will make them proud of the business and glad to have a hand in it the father who spends much of his lime in town leaving the boys to do the farming should expect trouble As well might the father teach children that home was the best place tor for them and then go gadding around every night just how the farmer who in middle life sells off and moves to town expects to advertise the advantages and opportunities of 0 farm life is not apparent but many of them do it A lot more good examples sandwiched with good teaching will help a great deal of not work wonders in ili making the coming generation realize the worthwhile of life in the open country and find joy in honoring their parents by remaining on tha farm |