q8o Rural School Leaflet. 



FARM BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBS 



To All Good Country Lads and Lasses: 



A good many of you must begin to feel acquainted with us who are 

 down here at Cornell — at any rate we are getting a good many letters 

 from you. Every day now we are getting letters from the boys and 

 girls, big boys and little boys, big girls and little girls, city boys and 

 girls, village boys and girls, country boys and girls. How would you 

 like to be in my place and be able to read all these letters and answer 

 them? It is fun, all right. 



Of course I would rather slide down hill with you or catch on bobs 

 or go snow shoeing or skating with you if you would let me, but since 

 I can not do that, the best thing we can do to become friends is to write 

 to each other. Now I'll write to you if you'll write to me. That is fair, 

 isn't it? When you write me, tell me about anything you want to 

 and when I write you I will tell you anything that I want to. That 

 is fair, too, isn't it? 



How many of you are going to be farmers some day? I would like 

 to know, so tell me when you write. I hope a good many of you are 

 going to be farmers because I am going to be one pretty soon. I know, 

 of course, a good many of you will not want to be farmers. Some will 

 want to become engineers, some doctors, some teachers, some merchants, 

 and some ministers. It doesn't make so much difference what, whether 

 you are a farmer or a lawyer, a teacher or a soldier, so long as you are 

 the best kind of a farmer or a teacher or a soldier you can be and if you 

 want to be that kind of a farmer or a teacher or a soldier, you ought to 

 begin right now. If you don't try hard to do things well and cheerfully 



