Loyalty and Contentment 11 



these broad acres of America, under the flag 

 which we love, we are to help transform the 

 rude surroundings of the pioneer and the slov- 

 enly homes of the careless into pure and beau- 

 tiful nurseries of American citizenship. Having 

 shown, in part, what a rural life has to offer to 

 those who are trained to appreciate the beauties 

 of nature and to obej^ her laws, and having 

 shown that the average farmer always has an 

 assured though modest income, and that the 

 better farmers have an ample income for main- 

 taining improved rural homes, the further dis- 

 cussion of how they may be made to minister 

 to the natural longings for broader and more 

 refined lives may be taken up. 



