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Make The Homestead Attractive

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Parent Issue
Day
16
Month
February
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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It neod not cost mach money to adorn the place one lives in. Begin by digging out the briars and thistle of the door■wsy. Plant a few trees, then add se veril flowering shrubs. Perhaps 'that will answer for the first year. Next year make a gravel walk or two, and set few Wering planta by their sides. Your wife and daughter will sow some flower stede if you.will only prepare a neat border fr thtenu Look. at i these few imjrovemeirts morning next June, and we guarantee you will be glad you made thom. And these labors, so reharding, will load on to others. The fences and buildings will be kept in repair. Trees will bo set out along the roadside. The house will have wiudow blindé, the rooms will be painted and p&pered ; good furnitnre will be providedandbooks and papers will not be missing. All these things will be regulated aoeording to one's ability. Andr as a general rule; whatever our means, it is better to make improvements by degrees, froni year to yer, than to do thom. all up -at" once " by the job." Be assured this is the way to find the most happiness in home adorning. And remember,. the influence of suoh improvemeni does not end with the individual faniily. They teil silently, but with great effect, upon sooiety. ■ Évery neighbor and e"eiy gasser-by feels them, and nmiiy are led? by such examples to go and do likewise.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus