Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1918 — CONSIDER LOOKS OF THINGS [ARTICLE]

CONSIDER LOOKS OF THINGS

Any Number of Reasons Why Every Effort Should Be Made* to Make Home Attractive. “In traveling through a certain section of Rlinois the other day I noticed that most of the homes \vere cheerless nmi desolate,” Director Charles Adkins told me the other day. “The yards were full of weeds, there were no flower? nor vines, and tlie majority of the houses were unpainted. “Who would want to live in such a place? What attraction is there to keep the boys and girls on the farm? I felt like asking these people why they didn’t paint up and clean up and ■make their homes look like something.” Soldiers are required to keep their equipment clean and their faces shaved because of the effect on their morale. A clean, trim-looking soldier has more self-respect and fights better than a slovenly one. The man who takes pride in the appearance of his place Is a better farmer and a better man cn that account. The whole family undertakes its tasks more cheerfully and -more successfully because of IL — Prairie Farmer.