THE TENANT FARMER
The Socialists are working overtime in an effort to frighten the people with their tales about the tenant farmer. They point out that the tenant farmers have increased much faster than homeowning farmers, there being about 8 per cent. of the latter as against about 16 per cent. of the former. Recently the United States government made an investigation into the condition of the tenant farmer in the three states of Indiana, Illinois and Iowa and from this we find that the average size of farms managed by tenants for the three states is 172 acres; that the average income of each farm is $1,732, and the average expense $740, leaving for the average tenant farmer an income of $992 a year.
Mother: “Willie, I’m shocked at you. Do you know what becomes of little boys who use bad words when they play baseball?”
Willie: “Yes’m. They grow up and become golf players.”
—Boston Transcript.