Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — LOOK AFTER HOME GROUNDS [ARTICLE]

LOOK AFTER HOME GROUNDS

Farmhouse Is Attractive or the Re--1— verse According to the State of Its Surroundings. . Farmers just now have plenty of troubles: they are short of help, and much of the little help they are able to obtain is poor and unreliable. The women of the faintly are working like beavers; in fact the women on many of the farms along the roadside were helping the men in addition to doing their housework.' The plucky spirit of the women is unconquerable. Where there is a successful farm generally, if the real truth can be arrived at, very much of the credit will be due to the spirit of a woman, who in times of discouragement' insists on another and greater effort and who sees fliat the men are up and doing daily. If women knew how cheaply and with; what little labor the home grounds could be Improved they would see that the men. made the necessary effort, or more likely would themselves do the work. A house in the country, standing out prominently, surrounded only by broad fields, swept by the blasts of winter winds and consumed by the fire of the summer sun, with the barns and outbuildings as the only piece of landscape, is surely, a lonesome place, .to be avoided. There is no comfort there. —Exchange. ‘ t