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"the farmer's doin' swell!"
longer. She wanted the advantages of city schools for their children.
Max rented the Martin farm to Lee, and went into a real estate of' fice in the city. By working all day, seven days a week, and often far into the night, he manages to keep their standard of living something like it was on the farm.
ATYPICAL example of the Hfe of a farmer compared to that of his city cousin is portrayed by two families we will call the Martins and the Nolans.
The prospect of life in the city looked enticing to Rose Farley when she became engaged to Lee Nolan, who was visiting his uncle, Charley Martin, at Martin's prairie farm. But, transplanted to the city. Rose met none of the glamorous cafe society she read about in the gossip column of her daily paper.
Instead, the Nolans acquired three children and a small house very much in the suburbs. Lee's salary provided them with life's necessities; but there wasn't much left over for the luxuries. Rose didn't know how much she would miss the full larder on the farm, until she tried buying everything at city stores!
Came the war and the bonanza of a bomber'plant pay check. But there was no high living, no mink coats, no black market steaks, for the Nolans. When the end of hostilities coincided with the death of Rose's mother, she and Lee disposed of their painfully acquired equity in the city house, and made a down-payment on the old Farley farmstead.
Rose was looking forward to living "neighbors" with Lee's cousin. Max Martin, and his wife, Pauline, who had taken over the Martin farm at the beginning of the war. But Pauline had other ideas. The farm had served its purpose well, for hadn't it kept Max out of the draft? Now that the shoot' ing war was over, she had no intention of stagnating on the farm any
THERE is no place for sluggishness in Pauline's life, either. Her life is one endless round of bridge parties, canasta clubs, Kensington and garden groups. Not because she particularly wants it that way, but because she has to do it. She contacts half of Max's prospective customers while clubbing over a coffee cup.
And how about Lee and Rose? Have they missed the good city life by their move to the sticks? Not by a jugful! Their spacious farm home has been modernized to a far greater degree than the little house they left behind in the city. Not only have they paid off their own mortgage, but they are now setting up Lee, Jr., and his new wife in business on a neighboring farm.
Two other sons. Dean and Bob, still at home, are establishing their own bank accounts against the day when they, too, will want to launch out for themselves as farmers. Rose no longer has to wonder where the next week's groceries are coming from — she already knows, because they are waiting to be taken out of the deep freeze. The new Chrysler is waiting to take her wherever she may want to spend her leisure time. She has money in her pocket for shopping sprees in Kansas City, Denver or Omaha.