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Day’s Work of a Retired Farmer 
An Envied Change. —When a farmer 
gets along in years and feels that strength 
is failing him, so that it seems best for 
him to give up the active work of the 
place for a few months of the year, and 
live downtown, it comes over those who 
never have tried making such a change 
that their neighbor must be rolling in 
.wealth and have reached a place where 
lie has nothhing to do. "(lone to live 
downtown! Lucky folks! only thing 
they have to do is to sit round, tell 
stories of the old days and have a good 
time.” If these kind friends could but 
pull back the curtain a little and look 
behind the scenes, they might change 
their minds. 
The Boy Returns. —In our case, we 
are fortunate in having a good boy t< 
take up the burden of the farm, so that 
we have not had to sell it. as many far¬ 
mers do when they reach the time of life 
when they cannot walk the furrow all 
day. This*son. by the way. made a good 
record as a teacher after taking a normal 
course, fitting himself particularly for 
that work. The confinement of the 
schoolroom, however, was too much for 
this child of the open fields, and he tried 
as a middle course a year or two in a 
store, where he also did well. _ AH the 
time the call of the farm was singing in 
his ears, and the day came when he 
wrote home, saying. “Father, I would 
like to come back to the old place. I'll 
do the best I can. and I believe I can 
make it the best place in the neighbor¬ 
hood.” 
Keeping Busy. —Well, that was a 
happy day for father and mother. Of 
course the boy came, and with his new 
wife has been there ever since. Mother 
and I spend a good deal of time out there 
every year, there being, fortunately for us 
all. an extra house nicely fitted up for 
the extra family. So we vibrate hack 
and forth, mother and I. but in the Win¬ 
ter we keep pretty close to the home 
downtown. Is there anything with 
which we may busy ourselves? Mother 
will have to tell her story one of these 
days, but I know she never was busier, 
and all the time at something worth 
while, work that will help to make some- 
nne a bit happier, while T. well. I have 
enough to keep me out of mischief. Let 
me take a scrap out of a real day’s ex¬ 
perience. all th(‘ record of a day less 
than a week ago. 
Beginning the Day.— After doing my 
morning chores, caring for the furnace, 
shoveling snow off the walks and such 
things, it is my rule to go to my desk 
and work till noon. I do not mean to 
lot my mind rust out if 1 can help it. 
Seems to me it is our privilege as well 
as our duty to stay young as long as 
we can. So I have a little while every 
day when I work at my desk. The mail 
brings ns a letter from our youngest 
son. who is now home from the war. and 
has located as a doctor in a Middle West 
city. He is getting well on his foot, and 
we are glad to hear from him. But be¬ 
fore noon the "phone brings us a little 
different news, this time from the farm. 
Bad News. —Our boy’s wife has slipped 
one of her knees out of joint. She needs 
;m elastic bandage to hold it in place 
after the doctor gets it there. It is Sat¬ 
urday afternoon. No more mail till 
Monday. Maybe not even then, for Sun¬ 
day is Washington’s Birthday, and the 
postal men must have their vacation, and 
they may take Monday for it. To cap 
the climax, our boy is sick in bed and 
the snow drifts sky high, shutting autos 
in. and nobody to drive them if they 
could run ever so well. Eighteen miles 
out. by the best road. How can band¬ 
ages be got out to the farm under such 
eircumstances! Looks like a had job. 
But where there is a will there is a way. 
A Friendly Adviser. —Before further 
progress can be made toward getting the 
bandages out to the crippled wife, an¬ 
other appointment must be kept. A few 
days ago an old lady of the city had 
asked that I should come that very day 
at two o’clock and advise her on a mat¬ 
te of business. Poor old woman ! She 
has been living alone for a number of 
years, and it is my candid opinion that 
ibo city is the loneliest place in the 
world for a woman, especially if she is 
not well, and lame with rheumatism. So 
I hurry around to see this patient old 
woman and fiud her in a peck of trouble. 
She owns the little house in which she 
lives, and enough beside so that by be¬ 
ing very economical she can have a 
-canty living the rest of her days. And 
now comes in the trouble. She has a 
-on who wants her to deed the house and 
lot to him. The question is. shall she do 
it? She feels that this son has not been 
iust as good to her as he should have 
been, and that of late years lie has wan¬ 
dered from the straight path he once fol¬ 
lowed with her. It troubles her that lie 
should do as he does, and she has grown 
poor in flesh and troubled in spirit since 
I saw her last. What would I advise 
her to do? I tell her if she does not want 
to do what the son asks her to do, it. 
would be my judgment that she might 
better not do it. She has put it in her 
will that the place shall be his when she 
is gone. Why should he not be satisfied 
to wait the course of nature, and be 
good and kind to his mother as long as 
she is here? This is a delicate matter, 
but I try to counsel .her as I would like 
to be advised myself under the same con¬ 
ditions. My advice agrees with her 
own better judgment, and she decides to 
keep the place in her own name its long 
as she lives. Seems to me this is sens¬ 
ible; but I can see how she may have 
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