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Show KEEPING BOYS IN THE ORCHARD A gool man) things are rilned on farms, but their best no lints, aftir all, In boia A farm without n boj Is apt to bo n desert waste nr barren Ideallti tTiifnrtnmte Is the pia,. timl ha m ehildrcii to cnliien it Hnd Ihe farmer without n li Is to l pte Mi un! Airs lohn Miandiew of South Union, Mich, rune to thin coiuliislon after innn) j.his without the eiilie. Ing Inilueiiie of cheeiful elm iren .THIh worthy ...iipio falm f m all plnnti.l In rrult tiees nnd f,)r iear lime. I ecu noted for their earl pm-Iiii pm-Iiii t of dell, Ions fruil, r mhU ill something wain la. king though the had an abundance of th II, ions up. Pes of nil larleilc, suitable to Hint l,t-Undo, l,t-Undo, and peaclie that make, jour mouth lvater, and luscious grams in limiting clusters, there was let nn nihing Mdtl thit bully pooled iiinn. Tin re line no liojs lo rmm oiei th oichard nnd climb the trees, or throw eliii.a up Into thoso healing the best fruit Ihere nn n pnlnful stlllniss. tinbioken bj the iries of h ippy uichlnn is they plucked the 1 lg red npplcs or tcnihtd for the penchen with sunny sides .Mr Sli indn n and bin good wife, nftci st indiiig the desolation for n long time begin to worij about It and tn stud) mine ,,U, lo ,),, A Ien,d Though they had no children ot their own might It not be possible lo obtain these Indispensable from other neiirien' In the cities the) knew wero thnusunds of children pining for the lit) dellghta which ncre going lo waste on tho Shandrcw farm Little tote, cooped up In tenements, who no! cr had nny Rrecn grass to roll on, or any fruit trees to plunder, and who neier enjoyed nn of the fascinations to bo found only In the country One da) a happy thought struck Mr. and Mrs Slnndrew. Thej npplled to n foundling hospltnl nt Minneapolis und requested the iminnRcia to send them n few children foi n sumnici outing, with the prl! liege of choosing ftom them a l.iy for adoption In response to this request came an assignment of twenty-two twenty-two bright, rosj -cheeked joungstera, whith nan the asjlum' Isllile supply oier the age ot 3 carn The owner of the ore haul hid not expected this man), but nfler the puty had nrrhel and romped utnund u while Mr. and Mrs Bhandrew found It diillcult to make u selection. They Si ere no delighted de-lighted with their nntles, so nmunetl by their cheery 1 lugliter, Innncent glee nnd robust merriment, th it the longer they stned tho mote reluctantly they neie to let any of them go. they wanted want-ed them nil! Neier before had the Shnndreiv place neemetl so nttractlic. Tho daik places had been Illuminated, the oppressive calm had been broken b that sweetest of all music, the olcen of children There was Bome-boly Bome-boly to eat tho fruit that heretofore had been going to waste. Not only wa there laughter In all tho oi chard and Iho bvwaja nf tho fnrm, but thcro na Minshlnt' In the hnuse, nnd llfo seemed much tnoio woith llilng since the nr-riinl nr-riinl of the hlltrloun nnl happy or-nil or-nil ins from the distnnt city Mother bhandrew and htr husband thought the mutter oier many times, but found It Imiioaslble to choose be-in be-in i en no much lichen, nnd finally ended by deciding to adopt the entire collection collec-tion of loungstcrn Thin, of course, be-left be-left the nslum of neirli Its entire population pop-ulation ot homeless Jiiicnllea, but what nf Hint? There's plenty of room ard plenty to eat for twent-two children on a hundred-acre fiult farm. It In true that tho Immediate tlnanclnl returns re-turns fiom n lot of little Imys Is not apparent, ap-parent, and the) seem to destroy rather than produce The can't be realized on nt tho time llko calu and lntnba nnd ducks or fruit Hut wlso people know Hint In lime they will be worth moie than all these, and thnt the real mlslnn of fin in Is primarily to raise bos and glrln, tho other thing being merely rni.lrtbutoiy to these. If wo ilont' rnlso boy wo ran t have men, and what n sorry world thin would be with no men on It Ho, wo think, and no doubt nil will ngrco with un that Mr and Mm Hhnndrtv. nf South 11a-en 11a-en haie net n most excellent example, wboeier In a big form, especially a fruit orchnrd, and no bo. should lose no Hint In stocking up. eien though, like our worth) Mlchlganders. they bnie to rob un nsluni, Amerliun Parmer. |