YOUNG PEOPLE'S SPECIAL.
'j " A Farm and the Carolinas, Virginia, ;
;:,-73k'-" teli,: ; JSE'- Georgia and Tennessee,
tw. FOUNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol XXVn. No. 24. SATURDAY, JUNE 15 1912. . Weekly : $1 a Year.
WHEN THE FARM COMES INTO ITS OWN.
WE know that many of our boys and
girls expect to live on the farm af
ter tney are grown up ; but we tear
that there are many others who, deep in
their, hearts, are longing for the time when
4eyi;can leave the old farm and try life
elsewhere. Now. if the boy or 'girl has
special talent or special training for some
other work, it is the proper thing for him
or her to leave the farm ; but to leave the
farm just because one feels that it is not a
good place to live argues something-'
wrong either with the person who -wishes
to leave or with the way : the I farm; is ;
managed : -, '-'.i -lA:iXP'7i-'
There are farms, of course, which no
enterprising young person could be blamed
for wishing to leave farms where there
is a ceaseless' round of hard work, little
pay, few recreations, a general lack of
hope and progress and ambition. Such
farms, however, are becoming scarcer,
and the farms on which the boys and girls
are able to earn money of their own, to
get a good education, to enjoy the society
of their friends, to live in comfort and to.
grow up into well-trained, cultured, pur
poseful men and women are all the time
becoming more numerous. ,
Indeed, this is the only kind of farm
there should be in this land of ours the
only kind there will be when once we all
realize the possibilities of farm life and set ourselves in earnest to re-i
alize them. Some of our readers live in homes just as beautiful as the
one shown on this page and have everything necessary to.make them
contented and hopeful. Many others, who have not yet attained to
all these things, live on farms which are every year becoming more
beautiful and giving to those who live on them more of the good
things of life. Still others there may be who see in farm life only one
endless round of drudgery and who ceaselessly contrast their condi
tions with those of the lucky boy and girl who live in the city.
Wrong as this last idea is, it has in it a grain of truth, for it is true
that the country has in the past lacked many of the advantages of the
city. The great fact of our day is the new realization that the country
need not lack these things. For the farmer to add to the good things'
which belong especially to the country most of the good things which
have heretofore belonged exclusively to the town, is possible is com-:
paratively easy, if once farm folks set out in earnest to do it.
And it is the boys and girls of today who must do this great work
and so make life on the average farm as inviting and satisfying as it is
oh the very best farms of today. They can do it, too, for the boys
and girls of today are the makers of the future and it is theirs to
fashion and mold it as they will. If they prepare themselves, by. earn
est study, by doing well the tasks of today, above air by living true,
helpful and earnest lives, they can bring even the poorest and most
neglected farms of the South into their rightful heritage and , make
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WOULD ANY BOY OR GIRL WISH TO LEAVE A FARM HOME LIKE THIS?
them charming and delightful places to live. Let it be remembered,
tho, that only the boy or girl with real energy and purpose can do
this, or help to do it. The one who says "I can't," and, because pres
ent conditions and circumstances are unfavorable, gives up, will surely
not do it, and is not likely to accomplish much anywhere or for any
cause. Things worth while are done only by those who, have a real ...
purpose in life and who prepare themselves for the work- they wish
tO do. ' ' '"" : : ' ' '' - : -
FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE.
ACCORDING TO SAINT JAMES A Talk to Girls, My Mrs, Pat
terson. 6
A SEASHORE VACATION The Kind Any Boy Would Like 5
CARE OP THE MOWING MACHINE Valuable Suggestions by a
Farmer 9
GIVE THE FARM BOY A CHANCE Why He So Often Leaves
the Farm 1
KEEP THE CHILDREN SAFE Don't Run Needless Risks...... 8
"OLD-TIME RELIGION" AND . DRY ROT Why Some Churches
Always Have Poor Preachers. v 17
THE BEST WAY TO LEARN SOME LESSONS By Mis Susie V.
Powell 7
TO MAKE CHEESE AT nOME Plain Directions. ...-. . 13
USE THE DISK HARROW Run It Ahead of the Plow 3
WITH OUR YOUNG POULTRY RAISERS Some Interesting Let
ters 14