Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-05 | Page 5 | The Standard's U. A. C. Bureau

The Standard's U. A. C. Bureau jl Articles of Interest to Farmers, Housekeepers and Others ; Written for The Standard by Experts at Utah's Noted j J Agricultural College at Logan . I Wmbb BBSn i ii i in i PBgoBestrgnMamMy I FOR THE LOVE OF HOME-CLEAN HOME-CLEAN UP. (By M. C. Merrill. Professor of Horticulture,. Hor-ticulture,. U. A. C. I want to ask you readers of tho Og-den Og-den Standard If you love your home and your home surroundings. If you-do, you-do, there must be some reason for 1L If not, why not? Have you ever Analyzed An-alyzed your feelings on this subject irid tried to determine why you love! your homo or why you dp-'liot? Me-j thinks that as with so many other rela-j tionshlps of life, so you people of Og- den and Weber county will find it with your homos the more you do for them, the more you love them. This is the great clean-up season of the year. All nature in the spring time seems to awaken to new life after the dead dormancy of winter. She puts on a bright now dress for the occasion and smiles her best and prettiest Her apeparanco should be an inspiration to man to put his environment in harmony har-mony with her beauty nnd loveliness. It seems' to be a condition of man's make-up that he tends to become so accustomed to his surroundings, good, bad, or indifferent, . that he. accepts them without question and sinks into that pitiably satisfied rut of mind that desires no progress or change. If he lives in the most beautiful of homes in the choicest of locations he soon forgets for-gets to appreciate the fact. If he lives in a squalid hovel he soon becomes ob-livious ob-livious of Its discomforts. If his home surroundings are all littered up with junk and everything is disorder and messy untidiness he soon ceases to be aware of that condition. Have you ever noticed that the 'greatest changes in homesteads usually us-ually take place right after they change hands and a new man lakes possession? Ho goes oa to the place and see? countleRs improvements that ought to be made, and he undertakes some of them. Then in the course of a year or so hfi sottlos down and forgets mil abouUthe ideals he had In mind for the Improvements of his new home nnd jhpeomes as self-satisfied with things ICs was the former owner. I But wo can always see where our 'neighbor could improve his place. Oh, lyes. Our oyes are free enough of motes and beams and such things in thnt c:.se and think we have perfoct vision. We can see fivo pickets off neighbor Jones' fence, three boards off tile barn, a gate that does not hang well, a pile of rubbish back of tho house, some old wheels and worn-out machinery littered here and there about the place, the trees and shrubs In distress fori lack of pruning, weeds springing up In the corners, tho fence about the pasture pas-ture leaning awry, paint peeling off the house, a mud holo between the houso and barn, rocks to be stumbled over in the garden, the chickens running all over the house porch and you know what that means, and a thousand and oi: evidences of careless slouchlnoss. :Ono thing on Jones' place worthy of ! commendation, however, is thes well new garage all shining with proudly paint, the nightly resting place of the inew Cadillac. Yes, Indeed, tho garage must be swell and fine even if all the rest of the place goes to rack and ruin. Do you doubt It? Look around. Friends and neighbors, let us open oui eyes this glorous spiring time and really sec tho many things about our homes that ought to "- attended, to. It is not so much a quisllon of money ss a little time well spenk And I want to tell you that the more you do about your homes, the more you will lovo and enjoy them.