Art Displayed On Back Door

HELLO FOLKS! — Some people born with silver spoons in their mouths never stir for themselves.

It isn’t the pounds of steel in a piano that bother people, just the pounds of little people.

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WE HAVE an Art Board in our home. It wasn’t meant to be that; it just happened.

We have a door in the living room that leads to the back porch. We never use it so decided to seal it up. I put in a chunck of ply board and intended to use it as a back-drop for nick-nack shelves. I didn’t get at ordering the shelves for a while.

In the mean-time the girls were looking for a place to display their art. One day when I came in the house there was sign displayed at the top of the doorway saying ART BOARD. Below it were several colorings and drawings. It has remained that way ever since.

Now that it is there we have decided that it beats a nick-nack shelf. Standing at the bottom of it one of our book cases. Zina seems to be the chief artist here; most of the things on the board belong to her.

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OF ALL the many conveniences and services we have in this day and age, one of the very delightful and useful is the mail delivery system.

Sometimes we may not appreciate it completely.  That would be when we get an over abundance of bills, or bad news. For the most part, however, the mail brings news from far off friends, especially at Christmas time. It brings the daily news, much of it that we might have heard over the air waves, but still interesting to read over and confirm what we thought we have heard.

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WE CAN receive a world of information and education. We can learn about people in far off lands, whom we will probably never see. We can receive information of almost any sort; from the latest and most scientific to the ancient and almost forgotten history of the past.

We get our share of mail at Edvera Farm. We subscribe to two dailys, some weeklys, and a host of monthly and bi-monthly papers and magazines. Among them are a good proportion of Agricultural publications such as The Farmer, Successful Farming, Farm Journal, Nations Agriculture, Big Farming, National Hog Farmer, Farm Bureau News, and several others, along with a number of company sponsored magazines such as The Furrow and other publications.

A list of general magazines would include such popular names as Life, Readers Digest and Popular Science.

Then there are quite a few Childrens publications. The Childrens Friend, Boys Life, Exploring and Calling All Girls.

Magazines of sentimental value would include, Guide Posts and Sunshine.  Last, but certainly not least would be the periodicals of spiritual value. The Church News, The Improvement Era, the Instructor and Signs of The Times.

What a wealth of information is delivered to our doors or gates, regardless of wealth or position. The poorest person around can receive a broad education just by subscribing to a few periodicals.

Transcribed by Vera Smith