Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1913 — Making the Farm “Beautiful” Is Also an Important Thing. [ARTICLE]

Making the Farm “Beautiful” Is Also an Important Thing.

■' •■N ‘ J Z". ■' - It is just as much in order to make the “farm beautiful” as it is to make the “city beautiful,” and the farmer has every facility for making it so. A spacious lawn, shrubs and trees judiciously planted, flower beds bright with bloom and fragrant with scent are possible for almost everyone who lives in the country.' All that is needed is the disposition and a little taste. And the results repay the effort a thousandfold. The down-at-the- f heels appearance of many farm dwellings and grounds is a reproach to their owners and dwellers. No wonder that boys and girls living in such surroundings, if they have any ambition and taste at all, dislike the farm and leave it the first opportunity.