| Show telling Us how here is nothing more diore irritating to the people tin there in a small town than tho the air that people from larger towns have towards them anil and their village r it is hard to say just what aliat prompts the city man mail to feel greater than the villager but lie almost invariably does and what makes it worse shows it in his actions it is the weakness of city people this belief of theirs that country people are back numbers tile the man from a city concern pays the country business man mail a visit awl ami shows allows plainly that lie considers the little merchant a very andall potato but if lie were wise enough W t the truth of their respective businesses lie lie would know that the back number merchant as lie ho looks upon him is laying by each year more than the city chap i is s drawing as a hired man maii from it a company that could find a thousand like him in a days time tho the narrow brained lecturer drop i into the bill and at tile the beginning of liis his talk me mentions that lie lias has changed ilia his subject for fear the one announced would bo be over the leads of liis his audience then proceeds to ramble along for a couple of hours with stale stories and disconnected ideas boring his auditors half to death deatle 1 1 tile chautauqua entertainer until lie lias has had a good deal of experience the traveling salesman up to the time he becomes of sonic some value to liis his house tile the transient visitor on oil a chance business or pleasure trip the young city employed emp loye before lie he learns the lessons of the relation of capital to business wherever it is employed all of them make the same mistake of misjudging tho capacity the intelligence and the character of country people if there is such a thing as superiority between between city and country folks tile tho latter have the best opportunity of securing it but as people there is no difference between those who live in cities and those who livo live in the country they all read the same the same periodicals and the tame lame magazines and the same books they hear the sanle same leet lecturers tire s and see the same theatrical they attend the same high hiigli schools and graduate from the same colleges and universe uni universities versi they take the same trips visit the same vacation resorts and make as many excursions abroad they ride in pullmans us as often and pay their bills as regularly and when every everything tiling is counted it is hard to point out any differ difference enco between them except that the alio country people have the advantage of freedom from the lift life in ill throngs and froni from tile scramble for a livelihood with great numbers contesting for a share wo we have no contempt or for who prefer to live in a city boutwe but wo do object to their attitude of scorn for the doings of ta those ose who live in the country or in ill small towns there is no good basis for their fooling fealing of superiority aull and to a person with a 0 proper understanding of the relations of things lings ti itis it is nonsensical and uncalled for |
