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the Walras said
“People are always talking about the weather, but .never doing anything about it.”
Somewhere along the line, I got told the thing needed was “constructive criticism.” The ex-, planation was: when you do not approve of a situation as it exists, state where it is wrong and offer suggestions to improve it.
Here are my plans for improving the weaitber situation.
Next year all hay crops are going to be got up in April. It’S pleasant to jje out of doors on the beautiful first days of spring. The weather is not so hot as it is now in July and the /workers in the hayfield will mot be apt to get sick from over-heating and sunstroke.
October will be a better time for wheat harvest. If you don’t sweat and get sticky the chaff won’t itch so bad. Again, too, the weather is more pleasant.
All canning and other hot kitchen work will be scheduled for the long, pleasant winter evenings. ' ■Now,
that’s all set. Hot-weather work has been re-arranged to take place when the thermometer is nearer a decent height.
This constitutes my contribution to “constructive criticism,” and, if you’ll pardon my mentioning it, It’s about as sensible as most such criticism usually is.
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Life has tyecome entirely too complicated. It used to be when you needed a "new chicken house, corn-crib, or any other out-building, you got the materials and a carpenter and built it. Now, it’s a permit for this fend that, permission from the state, town, or county to build, and inspection to see that it’s right.
The ladies in Washington had someone donate money to fix up a playground for the children, and there was sCme .talk of the posts
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