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Show THE COUNTRY AS WELL AS THE CITY Wo hear a good deal about the "city beautiful," and It Is all right, for tho more a town can bo beautiful tho bottor It Is every way. Hut why not tho "country beautiful" also? Hut It may bo said that tho country coun-try is always beautiful. In a sense that Is true for wherever you get landscapes with grass flowers, trees, hills and v alio) a and water you got beauty. Hut the troublo Is that man oftentimes disfigures that which Is naturally oautlful. Poor roads with weeds growing luxuriantly" on ulthor side, farms poorly tilled and buildings build-ings nnd fences In disrepair, unslght ly and uncomfortablo schoo houses nil thoso nro so many blots upon tho landscape. Of course thoso blomlshcs suggest tho remedy, which Is tho replacing of tho unsightly by the sightly. And tho groat thing nbout It Is that nil thoBo Improvements of hotter farms and schoolhouBos, roads nnd school grounds not only result In making tho country more beautiful, but also in making llto moro beautiful and wholesome. Financially also these things pay. for thoy lncreaso tho value of the property, add to tho fortuity of tho soil and result In largor crops. This may not always Immediately appear, but in tho long run It Invariably docs nnd that brings with It contentment nnd bettor conditions of living. |