Show some reasons why the farmer should keep thanksgiving just now aport apart from our knowledge of food secure perhaps some of cis feel feet it necessary to fall back upon tho the private reasons for thank falness ful ness each oni u has some bit of personal well being that can be brought out and rubbed up and admired jut juit to keep nr cur home circle happy this thanksgiving day each one knows their own causo cause for con tent even where it Is so commonplace as not dot to be distinctly visible to others especially this year we lose sight of the personal bright spots on account of their everyday every day character A person was once visiting a friend whose homo home commanded a beautiful stretch of mountain scenery it was in fact a magnificent view what a wonderful outlook you have here lie remarked to his host 1 I am sure if it I 1 lived here I 1 should spend most of my time viewing the landscape 11 why I 1 never thought of it that way his host replied 1 I never neer con it anything remarkable I 1 have simply taken it as a matter of course thousands of people who live in the country enjoy a treasure which sch Is denied lo 10 millions of their fellow inen the blessing of good pure out of door air fragrant in spring and summer with perfume of flowers or new mown hay and in fall and winter la in dm with crisp life giving no one enjoys more blessings and treasures of this kind than the man or woman oman on the farm he or she if inclined to be of a complaining nature ie to apt to find fault that life on the farm Is eo so hard and composed to largely of drudgery furthermore far away fields are always green and the one on the form farm imagines that in the city all must be ease and contentment these imaginings how estr will not stand the tile test of personal acquaintanceship with the life that Is in lived in the cities by hun deeds of thousands of people farm work nork Is hard but there are no easy berths in life the average person on the farm lives better enjoys better nir air to breathe better water to drink better food to eat better conditions under which to work ork better health than the toan man or woman in corresponding correspond hig circumstances cum curn stances in the city |