Part 34 (1/2)

If the thousands on thousands of pupils in our schools would becos and continue their work through life, then, in less than half a century, life in the country would be an unending delight

One of the problehtful, sociable, airls contented on the farm Every step taken to make the country horounds hbors, to school, to post-office, and to church, is a step taken toward keeping on the farirls who are most apt to succeed there

Not every man who lives in the country can have a showy or costly horow, any man ishes can have an attractive house Not every woman who is to spend a lifetime at the head of a rural home can have a luxuriously furnished ho to take a little trouble can have a cozy, tastefully furnished home--a hoery Even in this day of cheap literature, all parents cannot fill their children's hoazines, and books, but by means of school and Sunday-school libraries, bybook clubs, and by a little self-denial, earnest parents can feed hungry ry bodies

[Illustration: THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS FOR THE HOME]

[Illustration: FIG 291 AN ATTRACTIVE COUNTRY HOME]

Agricultural papers that arouse the interest and quicken the thought of far the best, easiest, and cheapest ways of farestions for household adornazines that amuse and cheer every member of the farowing minds--all of these are so cheap that thewill keep a family fairly supplied for a year

[Illustration: FIG 292 AN UNIMPROVED SCHOOLHOUSE]

[Illustration: FIG 293 AN IMPROVED SCHOOLHOUSE]

[Illustration: FIG 294 THE SAME ROAD AFTER AND BEFORE IMPROVEMENT]

If the parents, teachers, and pupils of a school join hands, an unsightly, ill-furnished, ill-lighted, and ill-ventilated school-house can at sed into one of comfort and beauty In many places pupils have persuaded their parents to forrounds Each father sends a man or a rounds Sturass sowed, flowers, shrubbery, vines, and trees planted, and the grounds tastefully laid off Thus at scarcely noticeable ives place to a char school yard Cannot the pupils in every school in which this book is studied get their parents to forround a silent teacher of neatness and beauty?

[Illustration: FIG 295 WAshi+NGTON'S COUNTRY HOME]

Life in the country will never be as attractive as it ought to be until all the roads are i people in their own ho so many of the innocent pleasures of youth, build towns and cities out of the wreck of country ho people who love their country and their country hoe in a nobler crusade than a crusade for ihways?

APPENDIX

SPRAYING MIXTURES

FOR BITING INSECTS

DRY PARIS GREEN

Paris green 1 lb

Lireen 1/4 to 2 lb

Lial

FOR SOFT-BODIED SUCKING INSECTS

KEROSENE EMULSION

Hard soap (in fine shavings) 1/2 lb

Soft water 1 gal

Kerosene 2 gal

Dissolve soap in boiling water, add kerosene to the hot water, churn with spraying pues to a creaallons of 66-per-cent oil eet 15-per-cent oil eallons of water