My neighbor, who came from a city where her husband worked for a salary, said to me, “It is difficult for any one who has worked for wages to get used to farming. There is a great difference between having…
Tag: Quotations from Laura
The Hot Wind Blew
At last the wheat was in the milk and again Manly estimated that the yield would be forty bushels to the acre. Then one morning the wind blew strong from the south and it was a warm wind. Before noon…
Happy Fourth of July!
“It’s nothing to be solemn about!” Pa jumped out of bed. “Hurray! we’re Americans!” He sang. Hurray! Hurray! We’ll sing the jubilee! Hurray! Hurray! The flag that sets men free! Even the sun, as it rose shining into the clearest…
The Lotus
The lotus is the sacred emblem of Buddhism, because in its rise from the bottom of ponds to the light and sweet air above where it puts forth its large green leaves and beautiful blossoms “it symbolizes triumph over self…
Your Code of Honor
What is your personal code of honor? Just what do you consider dishonorable or disgraceful in personal conduct? It seems to me that we had all grown rather careless in holding ourselves to any code of honor and just a…
Victory May Depend on You
“It is a war in each man’s heart. Each man is fighting as the spirit moves him,” said Hira Singh, speaking of the war, in the absorbing story of author Talbot Mundy. Every day is showing more plainly that Hira…
From a Farm Woman to You
When Rose Wilder Lane wrote me about the street of the alchemists in the old city of Prague, it gave me a sense of shock that people, not so very long ago, should have credited anyone with the powers which…
Each in His Place
I know a farm woman who is wearing overalls this spring at her outdoor work. “They wear overalls in the munition factories,” she says. “Isn’t the raising of food to preserve life as important as the making of shells to…
Learning from Experience
I have just learned something new! Isn’t it a wonderful thing that we are “never too old to learn” and also sometimes isn’t it strange that no matter how many years we have numbered we still learn best from that…
Listening to the voices of nature…
With the birds singing, the trees budding and, “the green grass growing all around,” as we used to sing in school, who would not love the country and prefer farm life to any other? We are glad that so much…