Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1911 — Back, Then, to the Farm. [ARTICLE]

Back, Then, to the Farm.

Richard Croker, during hl3 visit to New York last month, discussed with a reporter the high cost of living. “The farmers are all right,” said Mr. Croker. “It is the people who insist on living In the towns who find everything too dear. In the towns, you see, the expenses are as bothersome as the children. “A little boy In a tiny flat looked up from his drum one day and said: “ ‘Mother, Adam and Eve lived in Paradise. What was it like there?” _ “ ‘Like what it is here,’ hi 3 mother answered, ‘when you eight children are all at school."