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Show Teach the Boy Agriculture. One soultion of the city boy problem is to give him education in out-door-life nature study, country life, farming. It may be paradoxical, but after all why not.? Our training of country boys is, on the whole, for the pursuits of the city; perhaps per-haps partly because the city is the romance world for the country boy. But in turning his interests to the ctiy, the schools are stimulating and aidmg that widespread and ever increasing movement from the farm that is held to be so dangerous to our civilization. Why notthen turn the tide back by offering to the city boy a training in agriculture? agricul-ture? It will appeal to him. The big world out there under the open sky, with its mountains and plains, its rivers and lakes, its fields and its woods, and its wideflung wastes waiting for the trained mind,Jthe skilled hand, and the strong and courageous heart to subdue them to the purpose of mankind, may be made to draw him asthe city draws the country boy. But stronger; immeasurably immeas-urably -otronger. becftuae-tlve Uw riungor thafe-is oldur than Adam and the earth lure as old as life, will aid the school. |