Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1879 — Home Adornment Pays. [ARTICLE]

Home Adornment Pays.

Other things being equal, a country fßrm house, with •an abundance of shade and fruit trees, with sbiubbery and vines, and small fruits and bloom of flowers about, will always command a much higher price in the market than one bare of these attractions; so that time and money spent in these improvements make ample pecuniary returns. And if this were not so, a rosy, ebeerful home is far more jestful and refreshing to the weary worker than a bleak, barren and dreary one. One gets paid as he goes aiong for his toil and his struggle, when be sees his trees coming into fruit, his vines laden with grapes, his currant and raspberry bashes heavy with luscious fruit, and tastes the beat: ties his industry and forethought have secured.—[Ex.