Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — Country Weekers. [ARTICLE]

Country Weekers.

Mayor Crump of Memphis in a re-i cent address on behalf of children’* country week associations said: “Astonishing is the ignorance of nature shown by these little pale, lean slum dwellers. One child, whose knowledge of trees and grass and flowers was derived from the early, closing city parks, said as she gazedj with delight on a green rural scene: “ ‘What time does the* country shuti up?’ “Another child watched a farmhand! digging potatoes and said: “ ‘ls tfiis wfiere you keep your potatoes, sir? I should think it would bo handier to keep them in bags in tho cellar.’ “And I know of a third child to whom a farmer offered a superb, ripo peach. “ ‘Let me pluck this peach for you/ right off the tree,’ he said. “But the child, a little girl, turned) up her nose and answered loftily: “ ‘No, thank you. I never eat them till they’re canned.*” —Exchange.