Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1915 — Loafing In City and Country. [ARTICLE]

Loafing In City and Country.

Loafing in New York is the most fascinating business in the world. Why, It seems as if you New York men actually struggle to get spare time. I’ve sat in your office and watched you on Saturday morning working yourself into a blue haze in your efforts to get done early enough to cord up a fine big mess of leisure on Saturday afternoon. That’s the difference between New York and Homeburg. In Homeburg you would have been stretching out your job to last until supper time— unless you were one of our 19 golfers, or the roads were good enough to let you drive over to. the baseball game at Paynesville. Leisure in New York means pleasure. excitement and seven dozen kinds of interest. But for many and many a long year in hundreds of Horneburg homes leisure has meant waiting for mealtime —and not much of anything else. City people laugh at country people for beating the chickens to roost. But what are you going to do when going to bed is the most fascinating diversion available after supper?—George Fitch in the American Magazine.