A Pumpkin and a Prince 



must keep the fountains of sentiment 

 flowing!" Woodrow Wilson is an apt 

 phrase-maker. Probably no president 

 since the lamented McKinley has pos- 

 sessed that gift in greater degree, and 

 in these few words he has given expres- 

 sion to a truth, the important bearing 

 of which is not sufficiently recognized 

 by so-called practical people. 



One might say that there seems little 

 room for sentiment in the "tending of 

 cattle and tossing of clover;" that 

 there is little place for the play of the 

 imagination in the effort of trying to 

 make two blades of grass grow where 

 only one came forth before. That the 

 evolution of new and finer types of 

 grains and fruits and flowers is an 

 occupation fit for the merely patient 

 plodder only. That the creation and 

 maintenance of choice herds and flocks 

 is a task to which only dull minds may 

 profitably address themselves. Wash- 

 ington on his loved Mount Vernon 

 acres proved the hollowness of such 



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