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they have been paid and there is a good bank account and often money 

 lying idle and the owner is often tempted by the alluring baits which are 

 thrown out on every hand. There are mining and smelting stocks offered. 

 Rubber and coffee plantations are promoted which figures results in solid 

 gold. You are invited to invest in coal and oil and in manufactories, war- 

 ranted to bring fabulous dividends. Perhaps you buy and you find your 

 money goes to pay for those alluring advertisements to gull somebody else. 

 Well, look out. Millions every year are thrown away in just such wild-cat 

 schemes. The very best chances for investment are right at home and 

 under your own eyes, where you can v/atch them. Invest in things which 

 will improve the farm. Utilize the waste places, plant groves and timber 

 belts and ornament your grounds. Here is room for cash and care. Take 

 time to lay your plans, plant everything early in the spring, don't wait till 

 stock has leaved out, put things in as soon as the frost is out so they will 

 be rooted when the hot weather comes on. Then take care of them. Cash 

 and cultivation go well together. It is pitiful to see grounds well laid out 

 and planted and left to utter neglect. Weeds make poor companions for 

 ornamentals. It pays to take care of choice things. "Eternal vigilance" 

 is the price of beauty as well as liberty. 



Generally the man who leaves his farm to a tenant and moves into 

 town makes a great mistake. He ought to make the farm so attractive 

 for his old age that he can not tear himself away from it. At home, he is 

 a man among men; in the town, he seems out of place; on the farm, he 

 had plenty of butter and plenty of cream; in town, he must pay 6 cents a 

 quart for very thin milk. He generally moves in with a cow, a few pigs, a 

 team, and a lot of chickens. The marshal gently informs him he has 

 moved too much farm into town. His wife was a leader of society at her 

 home, but in town she finds herself left out, and it is hard to break into 

 the select "four hundred," and when she does she does not feel at home. 

 Environments are much more congenial among companions and friend- 

 ships which have been years in forming. 



When a man feels he can not do the hard work of former years let him 

 turn his attention to home adornments. It is a fact that as people grow 

 old and near the borders of the Eternal Beauty their attention is drawn 

 out to those things which are most pleasing and attractive. Every year 

 we witness the spectacle of men dropping the harder work for caring for 

 fruits and flowers. 



FARMERS' WIVES. 



If there is a class of women on this earth to whom should be accorded 

 the highest honors it is the farmers' wives. While other women, so far as 

 possible, avoid the burdens of motherhood, they are the ideal mothers. 

 They keep the race from deteriorating. Their sons, trained to hard work 

 and responsibility, go to the forefront in all the tremendous enterprises of 

 today. Their boys are filling our institutions of learning for an age such 

 as never before has dawned on this old world of ours. The success of the 

 husband has depended largely on the fidelity, labor, and wisdom of the 

 wife. She loves the beautiful. Flowers are her delight. Now, in her 



