FARMERS 7 VACATIONS 



soon be the regular thing for young people 

 to have some education away from home. 

 The narrow idea that the country school 

 course is all that farm boys and girls need 

 in preparation for life is passing away. 

 How much more that country school course 

 itself will mean when passed amid the new 

 community which I am predicting! 



This bettered country community will not 

 come while farmers postpone all pleasure 

 for a long term of years in order that it may 

 be a more welcome guest when the work is 

 done. Work is never done and it is better 

 so. Work is the greatest blessing of life and 

 is the medium of all enjoyment. It is the 

 continual contrast of pleasurable relaxation 

 and strenuous effort that gives spice and 

 snap to life. To put aside pleasure until a 

 distant season is to rob oneself of it entirely, 

 then as well as now. We must educate our- 

 selves to enjoyment as to labor, and unless we 

 begin that education early we lose the 

 faculty; so that, after years of toil, we 

 find ourselves hopelessly warped and unable 

 to fit the molds of normal life. Of course, 



