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one side. The children want to feel that the work is theirs. "I 

 am caring for this tree," "I am caring for this bed of flowers," and 

 if they grow up with that idea in mind they will continue that way 

 throughout life. Another important feature that we need to recog- 

 nize is that the parents and children should move along through life 

 together. The ordinary method of school life takes the children 

 away from the parents. The children grow up and learn to feel 

 that the parents are left out; consequently, they grow up to a con- 

 siderable degree separated. Now if the home training in connec- 

 tion with the school training is such that parents and children 

 can move along together through life, the parents will become 

 interested in the surroundings of their children, and the children 

 will reflect the sentiments of their parents, and it seems to me 

 it will accomplish the great end of American life. Some method 

 must be adopted by which they can move along together in life, and 

 greater things are certain to come about. 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wis.) : I don't want to discuss the paper. 

 but I want to discuss what you said, Mr. President, as you looked 

 around at me as though you thought I was the fellow that bought 

 the horse. (Laughter.) My wife says it is the other way ; I bought 

 the trees, and she had to go afoot. A few years ago I went up to 

 Sturgeon Bay to see a man, Mr. Zettel, and his great seedling 

 orchard. He said to me, "You are the man from West Salem, 

 and I am glad you came. I am pretty near through with this world, 

 but I want to show you some things we have here." We went out 

 to the orchard and looked at the trees. While I was examining a 

 tree, I saw the old man digging in the ground. I looked to see 

 what he was doing, and I saw that he had picked up an app 1 e, had 

 taken out the seeds and was planting them. I said to him, "What 

 are you planting seeds for? You just told me you did not expect 

 to live over winter?". "Well," he said, "I have got boys, and there 

 are other people who will come after me that will like apples." 



Mr. Poore: I am a new member of this society, for I have 

 just joined it and become a life member. I read in the papers of 

 this wonderful state, we see its wonderful exhibits at our fairs, we 

 see its beautiful farms, and yet we see many farm homes where 

 there is no dividing line between the barnyard and the door yard. 

 Many of the farm children have no beautiful lawns and flowers to 

 make an impression upon them. They do not see such things at 

 home. I have studied to see why it is the parents do not take 

 pains to beautify the farm home. I do not wish to hold myself be- 

 fore you as one who boasts of his own surroundings, but my first 

 aim was to build me up a home, an ideal farm home. I had no 

 idea of selling out in a few years and building a home elsewhere. 

 I did not wish to leave my home. We were just told that parents 

 and children should move along together. The children are am- 

 bitious to plant a seed and see it open and develop into something, 

 as their father has done. The thought of home is in their minds 

 constantly. One of my children went to Florida, and he wrote back 

 how glad he would be when he got back home again. That did 

 me good. 



