HOMES NEAR TO NATURE 



79 



Vol 



ame 



V 



JULY 1912 



Number 3 



A Village of Rest in a Valley of Peace 



BY EDWARD F. BIGELOW, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



VER the hills of many dif- 

 ficulties and through the 

 vales of many trials, 

 winds and extends up- 

 ward and onward, ever 

 onward, a wide and well 

 travelled road. Along" this 

 way pass all sorts and conditions of 

 humanity. Some hurry by, straining 

 every nerve ; some plod slowly and 

 wearily ; a company of the young and 

 gay, laughing and singing in their mer- 



riment, is followed by the slow march 

 of the funeral. 



The "road" is but another name for 

 Life, and the never ending procession 

 of travellers is humanity. And is it 

 strange that of all this surging throng 

 a few should turn into a bypath for 

 rest and recuperation? The wonder is 

 that there are so few. This is pre- 

 eminently an age of the utmost nerve 

 strain and tension. The race is to the 

 swift, the strong, the capable. This is 

 yet a new country. Though we do for 



EVERYTHING PLEASANT AND HOMELIKE. 



Copyright 1912 by The Agassiz Association, Arcadia: Sound Beach, Conn. 



