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CONSUMERS MILLING CO., Minneapolis 
Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
By Rev. George B. Gilbert 
School Again. —Well, here it is and 
vacation gone. How we do miss the chil¬ 
dren, and hate to have them gone all day. 
We have had a good Summer of it. The 
boys have had many a good swim, and 
the Parson regrets he did not go in with 
them more. They were always so pleased 
when he could go in with them. too. Lit¬ 
tle Ta has been “flimming.” too, sitting 
on the bank and watching the others. 
The first part of the Summer it was base¬ 
ball. but toward the latter part they got 
all interested in croquet, and that’took 
every spare minute. Croquet is certainly 
a good game for children, and good for 
the glass in the windows, too. as com¬ 
pared with ball. Ta plays with them, 
knocking his ball here and there-—most 
generally in the way. 
How Sweet IIe‘ Is.—Quite likely it 
might seem more than silly to an out¬ 
sider, but to the Parson and Mrs. Parson 
it seems the only thing to say over and 
oyer again—how sweet he is! lie loves 
his “mommo” so he cannot be out of her 
sight hardly a minute. If out at play 
with the children he comes in every few 
minutes to hunt her up. So much sweet 
loving as she gets. lie was out with the 
Parson the other day when time for the 
old Sand Man came around. “Mommo is 
calling.^ What do you suppose she 
wants?” “She wants me to give her some 
loving.” And off he trudged, to be rocked 
to sleep. He is such a loving little fel¬ 
low, giving so much and always getting 
so much. IIow all the children love him ! 
And liow they want him around and put 
up with him in all their play! 
Look Happy. —Some one was here the 
other day and Sit was setting the table. 
“IIow pleasant your little girl looks when 
she is working! My children always look 
so ugly when they work.” But it isn’t 
the difference in the children—it’s all in 
the way we grown-ups go at it. It’s born 
in the children to help—they love it. Lit¬ 
tle Ta has had his paint suit all Sum¬ 
mer and“him’s little brushy” to help 
Poppo paint. But children don’t like to 
work alone—at tasks heavy and hard— 
and to be ordered about and threatened 
all (he time. They don’t take to lugging 
water and chopping wood when the water 
ought to be piped into the house and the 
wood got up in the Winter and sawed by 
power. They don’t take to pulling rag¬ 
weed while father takes hours longer to 
go to town than there is any need of. 
Talking it Over. —The Parson always 
talks the jobs over with the boys, and 
they decide about doing them—then or 
some other time. You can tell in a min¬ 
ute by the shade of a shadow that flashes 
across a hoy’s face whether he takes to 
some piece of work. And before it goes 
any further you find out why he doesn’t 
take to it. It may seem too hot or too 
heavy, or too lonesome, or they may have 
planned that time for something else. The 
Parson profoundly respects all those feel¬ 
ings, and rearranges things till the job 
seems easy and they “just as soon.” And 
it’s praise, praise, praise all the day long 
when it’s done. 
Interested. —And the Parson is so in¬ 
terested in all their plans and play. lie 
helps sew balls and mend carts and paste 
kites and put up-tents and fix swings, and 
then they in turn take interest in the 
Parson’s things. 
When Away.— The boys have a great 
way of tackling some job when the Par¬ 
son is away, and surprise him when he 
conies home. How little Clossie chuckles 
to himself thinking what papa will say 
when he sees it. When the Parson came 
back from a trip to Vermont he knew 
right away from certain glances 'between 
Sit and Clossie that they had been up to 
something. When Mrs. Parson got him 
alone she said: “You must go over to 
tho barn when, you can.” IIow Clossie’s 
eyes danced as we approached the barn. 
You never saw what a cleaning out that 
place ‘had had! Places had been made to 
hold the forks, and old carpeting had been 
tacked over the hay at the end of the barn 
floor so the hens couldn’t scratch it about. 
The Parson hardly knew his own barn. 
How they led him around by the hand 
showing him each little thing they had 
done, and what a fit of delight the Par¬ 
son threw over every little thing. 
'Cheerful Outlook. —O e o r g e has 
started in with a new teacher this year. 
First impressions last, and the teacher 
certainly made an impression the first 
thing. They formed in line outside the 
school, and her tall form loomed up ahead 
of them in the doorway. Then she yelled 
at them enough to take their heads off 
because some of them were whispering in 
this line away out in the dooryard. Soon 
after this, when inside, she drew out a 
great strap and banged-it down on the 
desk as a sample of what they would get 
if they didn’t behave. Strange, after all 
these years of Christian teaching of love 
and affection, a school should have to he 
run on the basis of dislike and fear. It 
is a great way to make the rising gener¬ 
ation love learning and the pursuit of 
wisdom. 
Wonderful. — It is wonderful what 
lectures some of these women can give 
who go around telling mothers how to 
bring up children. The Parson was in a 
town the other day which had beeu 
blessed by such a lecture. After she told 
them all just how bringing up children 
should be done, and after she had gone, 
they found that she had had one child 
herself, a girl, and that she had gone 
crazy when she was 12 years old, and 
had been in an asylum ever since. 
The Old District School. —The Tar- 
son heard a big gun talking on district 
schools the other day, and he brought out 
what seemed to the Parson the one great 
thing that the old one-room school had in 
its favor. Everyone knows that under 
this present graded system the normal 
child is the basis of all the work. There 
is no room for the child that is backward 
nor the child that is forward. There is no 
low or high—it’s all in second. They 
must all go along together, like cornstalks 
on a self-feeding cutter. But in the old 
school everyone could go as fast and as 
far as they pleased. Quite likely he was 
the only one in his class, anyway. Big 
boys and hired men went to school during 
the V inter term, and) took up whatever 
they thought they needed most. They 
could put day and night on it if they 
wanted to. A retired lumberman was 
telling the Parson only the other day how 
as a young man he went to a district 
school to tiie Parson’s father one Winter. 
He wanted penmanship and bookkeeping 
so as to take a job in the city. He got 
it all right. He put the whole Winter 
right on it, and then went off and got a 
fine position in the city. 
Old Home Day. —We have our Old 
Home Day down at one country church 
the last Sunday in August each year. It 
is well to have such a day always on the 
same Sunday of the same month. People 
plan ahead for it. Many thought that this 
year we had the best Old Home Day we 
had ever had. Just about 100 people 
c:ime, and we all had picnic dinner around 
the church, and then speaking and a 
short service in the afternoon. We al¬ 
ways have a communion service in the 
morning. Autos make such a day much 
more _ possible now than it would have 
been in years gone by. 
The Old Methodist OnuRCii. —Our 
church _ has bought the old abandoned 
Methodist church of which the Parson 
has written. It has got to be fixed up a 
good deal. We are going to make it a 
real community house. Last week the 
Parson took down a big stove that some 
one in the city gave him. It was quite 
a trip—11 mi’es—with old Jim in the 
lumber wagon. But we got it up all 
right. We had a meeting with the Countv 
Farm Bureau Agent that afternoon, and 
arrangements were made for a poultry 
club. The agent is coming to see us 
every month, and that same night every 
month we are going to have a social. We 
will probably have sen-ices once a month 
to start with, as that is as often as the 
Parson can come at present. The men 
will make a bee and shingle the horse 
sheds, and this little hamlet will soon be 
on the map. The Parson hopes to have 
a big sign put up on the front of the 
church with the name of the place, and 
right under it the words “Community 
House.” 
The Potato Crop.— Yes, the Parson 
has been up to his old home in Vermont. 
Seed potatoes are the cash crop in this 
section. All this seed goes to Long 
Island. Indications were a yield of a 
little over half normal, but of fine qual¬ 
ity, with almost no small ones or seconds. 
This seed is sure to bring a good price 
this year. Most all fields had passed the 
second inspection safely. It was a great 
year for what these farmers called tip- 
burn. After the two weeks of hot, muggy 
weather, making rank growth of vines, 
the scalding sun comes out and scorches 
the leaves. There was a great deal on 
our potatoes here, and the Parson sup¬ 
posed it was blight, and gave his crop up 
for lost, but it was nothing of the sort. 
It did not seem to hurt the potatoes 
much, either. . The small yield in New 
England seems to be due to the severe 
drought just at the time the potatoes 
were setting. The boys and the Parson 
expect to have about 125 bushels on the 
acre they put in. We shall put quite a 
lot of them in the cellar, as potatoes will 
most likely go higher before Spring. The 
crop is short everywhere. 
Wayside Markets. —It is interesting 
to watch the developments of the wayside 
markets in this section. This wayside 
auto trade seems to increase, and some 
farms sell all they raise in this way. In 
most cases it seems to be left to the chil¬ 
dren to do the selling. Is it hardly right 
to make the children sit by the roadside 
all day Sunday, and will the farmers be 
honest in their packing and reasonable 
in their price? Right in this vicinity the 
Parson noticed a sign out last Sunday: 
“Eggs 70 cents a dozen.” The most we 
have got here this year for eggs right out 
of the nest is 55 cents. All the retail 
stores ask in the city is 65 cents. At 
this price of course they are delivered at 
th(> back door, and can be paid for at the 
end of the month. Why should this man 
ask 70 cents, and expect people to come 
to the house and pay cash for them? 
Already around here farms on the State 
roads are worth more because of this way 
of selling. 
