NOT ALL FULLY DEVELOP THE JOY OF COUNTRY LIFE. 



I wish I were qualified to write the kind of a letter you want ; that would 

 be a help to many people who have the same advantages that I have, but who 

 do not seem to get the same joy out of country life. 



I loathe cities and I love the country. I wish I had land enough to create 

 a real old-fashioned farm that could be made to pay for itself. Big old trees, 

 fields of waving corn or yellow grain, crooked apple trees, paths bordered 

 with hardy herbaceous perennials enclosing or leading to the vegetable gar- 

 den, with spaces of green and shaded lawn, this is the sort of nature I love 

 and would recommend to any who long for peace of mind and happy tran- 

 quility. — Mrs. Nathalie Alexandre. 



