March 16, 2018
You are reading “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County
Historical Society.
The readers
of the “Union” newspaper in March of 1877, found an article titled “Make Homes
of Your Farms”. The author wrote:
“Farmers and homesteaders were told that the farm should be made an enjoyable
“home” and not just a place of confinement, deprivation, hard labor or
discontent. It advised farmers to make a
delightful home; to lay out plans with their children to constantly increase its
attraction; to enlarge orchards; build a drying room and pressing room and
teach boys and girls to dry and preserve food; to can fruit and let the
children share in the money which they earn from the processing.
When parents
pay their children for work done, do not advise them to buy a pig or sheep,
because many thoughtless farmers did. They should tell their offspring to
subscribe to some good publications and then establish a reading circle in the
family where each could read aloud in the evening.
If they bought good furniture for
their houses instead of fancy guns and hunting dogs, their homes would be
comfortable and attractive. They could
rest assured their children would regard it as the dearest spot on earth and
they would never wish to leave it.”
Some of these may still be good ideas
today. I am not sure that all of today’s
children would never want to leave their parents, no matter how much they
appreciated their parent’s house. Well,
anyway … that’s today’s story on “Our Past Is Present” from the Historical
Society.
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