COMMONPLACE AND COMMON SENSE KNOWLEDGE 



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equally strange to most people. Even 

 more important is it to know, indeed, 

 there is no excuse for not knowing 

 corn, potatoes and other commonplace 

 things. Life does not consist entirely 



Thoreau were writing of this he would 

 say that all people should take copious 

 mental draughts of the esthetic tea 

 plant. I venture to predict that if 

 ArcAdiA were to send out an appeal for' 





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COLORED CHILDREN PLUCKING TEA AT "PINEHURST," SUMMERVILLE. S. C. 

 Illustrations from Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



of shop. It is possible to know how 

 many bushels of corn to the acre, yet 

 not to know corn. There is an in- 

 trinsic, educational, value in even po- 

 tatoes and cabbages. I fancy that if 



financial assistance after an elaborate 

 series of efforts to make the leaves of 

 the tea plant twenty-one and five- 

 tenths millimeters longer, or to mea- 

 sure the length and the breadth of 



