Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1917 — Exeunt Scarecrows. [ARTICLE]

Exeunt Scarecrows.

One of the hiany improvements 'resulting, from permitting women tn run the farm instead of to waste out their lives cooking for the thresher crew is said to be the substitution, on Long Island sound at least, of tailors’ models for scarecrows. It is not likely that crows can distinguish a welldressed man from an ill-kempt one, but no matter how the dear girls slump around" when they are by themselves, they do like a man who dresses up well. Besides, the models undoubtedly improve the appearance of the place more than the scarecrows do. For one thing, a man with good clothes is not expected to engage actively in the farm work; one in his old clothes is out of p’ace idling until the evening chores ate done. —Buffalo Express.