. The business of farming . and purseof our philanthropic spirit. It is, however, as im-portant a problem in the workingmen and workingwomen districts of our cities. The incessant toiland grind of our underpaid workers, strugglingagainst the ever rising tide of the high cost of liv-ing, is cruelly breaking down the ambition, thehope, the courage, and crushing the health andlives out of millions of our people. But the farm has not been without this humantragedy. It does not, however, exist to-day to sogreat an extent as in past periods of our farmhistory. In the cities it is hard to remedy thec
. The business of farming . and purseof our philanthropic spirit. It is, however, as im-portant a problem in the workingmen and workingwomen districts of our cities. The incessant toiland grind of our underpaid workers, strugglingagainst the ever rising tide of the high cost of liv-ing, is cruelly breaking down the ambition, thehope, the courage, and crushing the health andlives out of millions of our people. But the farm has not been without this humantragedy. It does not, however, exist to-day to sogreat an extent as in past periods of our farmhistory. In the cities it is hard to remedy thecondition of the underfed and the overworked;in the country there has never been any excuse forits existence. The author has seen the farmer with his broadacres and large, young family, going the pace ofthe grind that drives from the farm to the city,the insane asylum, and that kills. Plenty of work amid healthful surroundings,with enough of the right kind of food, properlyprepared, with plenty of the life-giving balm of 232. 2 MQO CO Q ?^ W ?^ U o H ID in S a — OJ ? 2; o o ^ (/I •z. --H (3£ ::l; H C ig qj H w rQ 5^ 2; P K GJ o ^ w c o < H CONSERVATION OF HEALTH 233 sleep, a dash of harmless amusement and recrea-tion, never kills any man, woman or child. It isonly the incessant work amid conditions thatbreeds disease, without food properly cooked foreating, and without the period of relaxation andrest, that kills. The author has seen the youngfarmer and wife, even on a farm of 160 or moreacres, arise at the unseemly hour of four oclockin the morning, rousing out the young family ofsix or more children, putting them to work in thepreparation of the breakfast, feeding of the stock,harnessing of work horses, etc., then sitting downto a quickly and illy prepared breakfast, gulpingit down in haste; then the father hurrying the boysto the field long before the morning light had litup the landscape, where, with broken rest andtired bodies, they listlessly t
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