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Show " - - i In the midst of a farming region ' the visitor now frequently come up-! on a well-constructed, well-lighted j school building of brick or stone, a building worthy of any city of mod-j erate size. The little one-room, insanitary in-sanitary school-houses, each presid-j ed over by a single teacher, are dis- j appearing. In the new hygienic structures specialized instruction is given country children by a well-equipped well-equipped teacher for each grade. Little towns Jshow industrial es- tablishments which, while smaller, than those of the great industrial ; centers, are in many cases just as; modemly equipped. ' The farmhouse now is likely to have a telephone in the kitchen,- a phono-' I graph in the parlor, a radio aerial on ' the roof. Less distracted hy local j cares and necessities than are the ' inhabitants of large cities, the people ; of the country districts are often better informed regarding world affairs af-fairs than are city folks. Out along the new good roads, promoted by hordes of. new motor cars, good houses appear in thousands thous-ands and thousands of quiet valleys and upon thousands and thousands of hills where formerly there were only cabins. In the fartherest tangles tan-gles of the Appalachians and in the deepest recesses of the Sierras one now comes upon houses which a generation gen-eration ago in the best cities would have been called mansions. Good , roads, automobiles and other agencies for rapid movement and quick dissemination of intelligence, together with labor-saving machinery, machin-ery, good wages and good times, are wonderful- developments throughout through-out this great country. Chicago News. ', SPREADING THE BEST For the traveller whose duties carry him up and down the United States or who takes a summer tour by automobile through many sections sec-tions of the country the rapidity with which the whole nation from coast to coast is getting leveled up to standards that formerly were only for the privileged few. This is shown in small things as well as in large, in trivial as well as in vital things. The improvement in clothing, of men no less than women, in the small towns and in the rural districts dis-tricts has been notable. The metropolitan metro-politan mode begins to flourish almost al-most as generally in Painted Post as in New York and Chicago. The cheap eating-houses that afflicted af-flicted the traveller of twenty-five years ago with filth and flies have been transformed in myriads of cases into clean and wholesome places providing excellent food and agreeable surroundings. |
