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Show 1 Make your rural house beauti- 1 ful. Lay out spacious grounds I around the farm house, plant 1 . shade trees, lay gravel roads and 1 - plant flowers. Don't lay up all 1 your net earnings for the benefit I of your jieirs and lawyers, but 1 spend most of it in beautifying 1 your home. The farmer who al- I ways shuts his eyes to the aes- I thetic features of his life and screws himself down to the task of making money, loses a larcrc portion and the biggest portion too, of his existence. His heme should be an attraction to h iir-self iir-self to his wife and above all, to his children. Unpleasant homes in too many instances drive the sons of farmers to the towns, to excitement and dissipation, and to wreck. Such sons do not generally gen-erally leave pleasant and beautiful beauti-ful homes. |