born, who said : "I have traveled all over Europe and America 

 and seen something of vice and crime, but all that I have seen 

 as a man did not affect me half so much as did the dirty stories 

 the hired ma,n told me on the farm when I was a boy." (5) 

 The saloon. The Report ,of the Commission on Country life 

 has this to say about saloons. "The saloon as an institution 

 must be banished at least from all country districts and rural 

 towns if our agricultural interests are to be developed to the 

 extent of which they are capable". In this connection it is of 

 interest to note that the measure for national prohibition had 

 the support of more than one half of the members of the Unit- 

 ed States House of Representatives in 1914. The Anti-Saloon 

 League makes the statement that by 1920 no saloons will ex- 

 ist in the United States. At present 19 states are "dry". 



Improvements in the Farm Home. The first generation 

 is passing away. Their task was no light one, to conquer 

 the soil, to build fences, to drain swamps, to lay our roads, to 

 organize towns, schools and churches. Life for the pioneer 

 was stern and severe and in it there was little time and less 

 opportunity for comfort, conveniences and luxuries. The next 

 generation will not have to face the same conditions. For 

 them the way has been smoothed and it is likely that more at- 

 tention will be given to the development of better ways of liv- 

 ing. The greatest convenience for the home is hot and cold 

 water in the house. Next to the hot and cold water come the 

 bath tub and the inside toilet. Cleanliness is next to godliness 

 in the country as well as in the city, and the work of the farm 

 is often of such a nature that the bath tub would seem more a 

 necessity than a luxury. A furnace in the basement, doing 

 away with carrying of ashes and wood and placing the labor of 

 heating on the shoulders of the men rather than the women, is 

 found in the most up to date farm homes. An adequate light- 

 ing system such as acetylene gas does away with the labor of 

 caring for numerous lamps besides furnishing a light which 

 does not strain the eyes at night. The gasoline or kerosene 

 stove for summer cooking is a great convenience during the 

 hot months, and is in quite common use, while the laundry in 

 the basement though a great convenience is as yet rather an 



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