This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...surrounded the gay bouquets than were gathered before the neatly arranged rows of corn. Anything that brings people together in friendly intercourse is good for a community. The older one grows, the more one appreciates the beneficial effect of a broad community life. The county fair is a civilizer in this, that it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...surrounded the gay bouquets than were gathered before the neatly arranged rows of corn. Anything that brings people together in friendly intercourse is good for a community. The older one grows, the more one appreciates the beneficial effect of a broad community life. The county fair is a civilizer in this, that it brings realization of the good things possessed by others, and leads away from introspection and toward the larger affairs of life. The tendency of the modern exposition is less to encourage fierce rivalry than to get the people together for a harvest home visit. This was the sentiment of the fair ground throng. Those who had lived in the county when fairs were devoted chiefly to horse-racing and a few doubtful entertainments rejoiced at the change, and praised the new condition of things. They said that it had taken years to build up the fair sentiment on the right basis, that it had been expensive at times and often seemed likely to fail entirely. In the end, perseverance won. and the result was helpful in both a business and a social sense. Other counties adjoining had been less successful, but were trying to conduct annual shows on a similar plan--which simply goes to prove that the county fair, homely and apparently simple as it is, depends for its success, like other public gatherings, on the intelligence and the grasp of correct principles possessed by its managers. BY ARCHIBALD R. COLQUHOUN Author of " The Mastery of the Pacific" " Greater America" etc., etc. DESPITE the progress of democratic ideas, there is still a kind of " divinity doth hedge a king" in the minds of most ordinary men. To be born in the purple, with such high and often tragic destinies, does set a man apart from his fellow-beings, and alth...
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