THE CALL OF THE LAND 



There is to come a richer, deeper and 

 more general appreciation of the country 

 and of country things. The country is not 

 alone healthful, to unspoiled men and 

 women it is every way enticing. If any 

 think it dull they lack culture. Young peo- 

 ple will stand any amount of drudgery if 

 mind work and culture accompany it The 

 farming familiar to so many youths doesn't 

 answer any aspiration. 



Happily, farm life is undergoing reform. 

 Farmers and their families are learning 

 elegance in and about the home. More and 

 more they insist upon spacious houses, 

 decorated interiors, pictures, tasteful lawns, 

 lavish flower gardens, rare trees. The 

 tillage of fields, the whole management of 

 farms, is becoming an intensely scientific 

 process. Farming will soon be so carried 

 on that the mental faculties and art sense 

 of farmer boys and girls will be appealed 

 to by it more than would be done by almost 

 any kind of city work. 



Reaction in favor of the country is not yet 

 marked so far as concerns schools and 



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