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the wonderful and magnificent beauty that spreads all about 

 them on the farm and in every country place. The farmer 

 whose training is such as enables him to see and love and appre- 

 ciate this beauty and glory will, love the country. Drudgery 

 will be removed from his work, his life will be wonderfully en- 

 riched, and he will be inspired and enabled to make the country 

 and country life more ideal. 



WORK THROUGH THE GRANGE. 



(Mrs. James N. Hutchison, Johnson county, Mo.) 



Mrs. Phillips was asked to talk on what we have been doing 

 along the line of high school improvement. I hardly know 

 what else to speak of unless it be of our work through the grange. 



Our community is not so much unlike other communities 

 because we have just about the same kind of people; some of 

 them are poor, some of them are in good circumstances, but we 

 have none that are rich; and we have the educated and the un- 

 educated. The uneducated, I believe, are in the majority, and 

 they realize what they have missed. Seems like they are more 

 determined to put something before the younger generation that 

 will better fit them for life and make them better satisfied. 



Now, of course, Johnson county is very proud of all that 

 has been done for them. We are glad of all this and still we are 

 not satisfied with ourselves. We want to push on and do much 

 better things than we have been able to do so far. 



Our grange was organized last December with about twenty- 

 five charter members. As summer came on the attendance 

 dropped. There was so much work for the farmers that they 

 were not able to do very much in the grange until this winter. 

 Now it seems to be taking on new life and we are adding two, 

 three, four and sometimes five members at a time. 



Our programs have varied so as to suit each member, the 

 old and the young, the men and the women. We are taking up 

 the things we are interested in out there and things to connect 

 us with organizations that are trying to help us. Its interest, 

 I think, are broader and the organization stronger because com- 

 posed of men and women both. While the women are doing a 

 great work, they have the co-operation of the men, and the 

 interests being united, there is more of strength. The women 

 manage these things, but have to call on the men for money 



