Country life and the country school- a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community (1912) (14760888041)

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Title: Country life and the country school: a study of the agencies of rural progress and of the social relationship of the school to the country community
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Carney, Mabel, 1885-
Subjects: Schools Rural schools Country life
Publisher: Chicago, Row, Peterson and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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heir number is verymuch larger than commonly thought. Such homes are notoften found among land-owners, but rather among the moreshiftless class of tenants and in the overflow of humanity onthe outskirts of cities and large towns. They are to thecountry what tenements are to the city, and their lot is appeal-ingly pitiful since land values have gone so high. Their pres-ence suggests the country slum sometimes mentioned inrecent literature, and the hopeless despondency and fatalismof country life is nowhere more apparent than within their 24 COUNTRY LIFE AND THE COUNTRY SCHOOL walls. Though not, in most cases, a product of rural forcesalone, nor particularly characteristic of country life, theresponsibility for the care of these homes is upon rural socialinstitutions and rests most heavily upon the school. Amongfarmers little personal charity is tolerated, but it is time,nevertheless, for more decided action for the betterment ofthis element of the rural population. The whole problem of
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An Inferior Farm Home A rented farm, the owner living in a city forty miles away. $250 per acre Land valued at such improvement, however, is based largely upon the adjust-ment of the farm labor problem, which cannot be furtherdiscussed here. The Improvement of Farm Home Life. The immediateneed for the improvement of farm home life is for the bettercontrol and decrease of household labor. This in turn callsfor the better planning and reconstruction of farmhouses and THE FARM HOME 25 the vocational education of country women. In this wayonly can the time and energy of farmers wives be conservedfor participation in community affairs and the spiritualizationof home life. Household drudgery is unquestionably the chiefcause of any lack of idealism and social-mindedness amongcountry women. Four important needs for the improvementof farm home life suggested here, then, are as follows: 1. The decrease of household labor as effected throughthe remodeling of farmhouses, the use of labor-saving m