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We have a whole five acres for our back yard and all outdoors 

 for our conservatory, filled not only with beautiful flowers, but with 

 grand old trees as well, with running water and beautiful birds, with 

 sunshine and fesh air, and all wild, free, beautiful things. 



The children, instead of playing with other children in some street 

 or alley, can go make friends with the birds, on their nests in the 

 bushes, as my little girl used to do, until the birds are so tame they 

 will not fly at their approach. They can gather berries in the garden 

 and nuts in the woods, and grow strong and healthy, with rosy cheeks 

 and bright eyes. 



This little farm home is a delightul place for friends to come for 

 afternoon tea under the trees. There is room for a tennis court for 

 the young people. There are skating parties in the winter, and the 

 sewing and reading clubs of the nearby town, as well as the neighbor 

 women, are always anxious for an invitation to hold their meetings 

 there. 



In conclusion, I must say if there are any country women who 

 are wasting their time envying their sisters in the city, don't do it. 

 Such an attitude is out of date. AVake up to your opportunities. 

 Look your place over, and if you have not kept up with the modern 

 improvements and conveniences in your home, bring yourself up to 

 date. Then take the time saved from bringing water from the spring, 

 setting the milk in the old way and churning by hand, to build your- 

 self a better social life. If you don't take a daily paper, subscribe for 

 one. They are not expensive and are well worth the price in the 

 brightening they will give your mind and the pleasant evenings you 

 can have reading and discussing the news of the world. Take advan- 

 tage of the circulating library. Make your little farm home noted for 

 its hospitality and the social times you have there. Keep up with the 

 march of progress, for the time is coming when the cities will be the 

 workshops of the world and abandoned to the workers, while the real 

 cultured, social and intellectual life will lie in the country. 



INCONVENIENCES OF THE FARM HOME. 



(Mrs. W. T. Flournoy, Marionville, Mo.) 



An inconvenience is that which gives trouble, embarrassment or 

 uneasiness, disadvantage — anything that disturbs quiet, impedes pros- 

 perity or increases the difficulty of action or success. You can see 

 that the definition of the word gives me a very wide range ; I can say 

 nearly anything under that heading. 



