Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1914 — REAL LIFE IN THE COUNTRY [ARTICLE]

REAL LIFE IN THE COUNTRY

Fact Is Shown by Man’s Eagerness to Escape From Congestion of the Crowded City. Why is it that railway magnates, - presidents of banks and heads of great enterprises who must perforce do business in cities, almost all try to have, homes on farms in the country, where they develop soils, plant crops and breed animals? It is because there is wearisome monotony in piled up brick and stone. There is confusion in crowded streets and! clanging trolipy cars and hot smoky railways. These things man has made, and they are needful, but they are not life, much as the farm boy may Imagine them to be. ■ • • T/.; . Life lain the open country. Life is in the grow|ihg grass, the waving fields of wheat, the springing corn. Life is in the trees and birds, life is in the developing animals of the farm. Any man who works with the land, who feeds a field and watches the result, gains a real fundamental knowledge of the underlying foundation on which rests all our civilization. It makes him a sober man, a thoughtful man, a reverent man, and if he eXperlments wisely a hopeful optimist Life, ip where things are born and Mve and grow. On the farm It real life.—Breeder’s Gazette.