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1 was compelled to get the help of a young man, and with that young 

 man and my poor arm we built a log house so as to get a place in 

 which to live. We had an ox team with which we rode around. Recently 

 I went on a visit there, and they took me around in a palace automobile 

 and gave me a ride on a steam launch. Those pioneer days are past 

 and we are on the verge of an era of advancement, an era of parks, 

 an era of lovely homes and luxuries. We are on the verge of a most 

 magnificent development all over the country. Think of a beautiful 

 home richly adorned and tastefully arranged. Think of one such home 

 and its influence. Think of a farm put to its very best — that is the 

 ideal — we want farms put to their very best. Beautiful homes and sur- 

 loundings will add thousands of dollars to the value of the farm. A 

 farm in this condition surrounded by a beautiful home would be a 

 sort of mecca to which people would flock. What one man can do 

 another can do and then others would see what they could do, and, in 

 this way, this influence would spread so that the whole section would 

 soon be beautified. Surely this influence would still further spread so 

 that the whole township would be put to its very best. All this is 

 within the range of possibility. You would then see people coming 

 in for hundreds of miles to look at those things. So, I say, we are 

 right on the verge of a stupendous development. It is coming. While 

 it Ms possible that many of us will be silent when it comes, yet I tell 

 you the time is coming. People will then remember some of the things 

 I have uttered. The works published by me will live after me. I repeat 

 it, my friends, that we are on the verge of a new era, an era of beautiful 

 parks and beautiful homes. [Applause.] 



The President: We will now listen to a paper entitled "The Home 

 "Beautiful," by Mi's. .T. A. Reuling, of this place. 



THE HOME BEAUTIFUL. 



.MRS. .T. A. REULING. WYMORE. 



Our city's welfare is our just concern and who promotes that best, 

 best proves his duty. 



Literally speaking not every one can own the "house beautiful," but 

 <;very one may own the "home beautiful," the home of well kept lawn and 

 garden, showing care of trees and shrubs. Each one of us is a unit in 

 the community of which we may be a part, responsible in a way for 

 our own door-yard, our own street, our own town. 



A well kept lawn is the foundation for the home beautiful. The care 

 of this means ozone for the lungs, red blood, sound sleep and health. 

 Next to bodily health the influence of the open-air work makes for 

 goodness, for it is easy to be good in an environment of beauty and 

 neace. It is not at all necessary that the lawn be a large one, or that 

 the house be fine or artistic. The satisfaction of caring for and having 

 done something well is universal. Competitive achievement is more 



