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how to frown but to serve her young people and help them to smile. 



A boy gets a lot of exercise plowing corn, but a boy is three-fourths 

 dirt and one-fourth noise till he is ten or twelve years old, then he 

 divides the fractions so that part is fun. And you can't eliminate any 

 fraction and retain him as a normal boy. So the church has a won- 

 derful opportunity to provide proper amusements and recreation for 

 her young. 



All work and no play "unmakes" the boy. We used to keep slaves 

 till they were sold or dead. Now we keep a boy tied till he is twenty- 

 one and then he gets such a start in freedom he often makes it into 

 license and wrecks himself. 



When I was a boy we were given our Saturday afternoons and we 

 met to play ball. It helped in two ways, better boys, and on Sunday 

 no one wanted to dissipate, we had had our fun. The church was 

 gainer. 



Young folks must play; that is as necessary as breath if we want 

 them healthy and robust socially and spiritually. Some country 

 churches put a few dollars into picture machines and other parapher- 

 nalia to entertain their boys and girls under proper scrutiny. They 

 think it's better to spend some cents (sense, too) keeping them at 

 home, rather than dollars to bring them back home after they have 

 gone, and too often for good. They tell the churches and old people, 

 "I am going where there is something going on." 



Well, they will find something, all right, but as a rule their new- 

 found pleasures are closely related to crookedness and shade. Age- 

 blind guides! Look at your shortsighted business! Save dollars and 

 damn your sons and daughters! 



Churches, spend a few dollars and a few acres in fixing up ball 

 grounds, gymnasiums, skating and swimming ponds, picnic parks — 

 anything that in your open-eyed vision for growing young people you 

 can see. Spend, and it will come back to you a hundred fold. 



It has been true too much that the church is the biggest institu- 

 tion on earth for manufacturing "Don'ts." But "don't" never did 

 anything but stop. 



What will you have the young people — and old — do? 



Then do it with thy might. 



Serve or sink. 



HOW ONE GRITTY WOMAN RAISED POULTRY WITH ORDINARY 



EUILDINGS. 



(Paper Read by Mrs. Geo. D. Jones, Cascade, Iowa, at the Dubuque 

 County Institute.) 



As I have been very successful in the poultry business, J have been 

 asked to tell my way of handling it, that you may profit from my ex- 

 perience. In order to be successful, one must have in store patience, good 

 sense, energy to work hard and long and stick-to-it-iveness. With these 

 qualities in hand, a few chickens and some feed, you are ready for the 

 work. 



