where daily papers, periodicals, post cards and 
so forth are dispensed. The mail is delivered 
morning and afternoon by a carrier via bicycle 
from North Long Branch. For shopping and 
bargaining one must go elsewhere. Monmouth 
is a borough of homes. The quiet of the place is 
indefinable. One can almost hear his own 
thoughts, but it is health-giving and extremely 
restful. “Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve 
of care” is here in full force. What life most 
needs to-day is a little more of nature’s peace 
and rest. And yet many of us, with clear vision 
for most things, see this truth as through a glass 
dimly. 
One Feline Inhabitant. 
So far as I have knowledge there is but one 
cat in the borough of Monmouth Beach. Of this 
lack of felines one hears no complaint. Birds 
are numerous, but not in such variety as farther 
north, Robins, blackbirds, meadow larks and 
sparrows waltz together over the lawns and trip 
across the piazza in most familiar ways. They 
nest nearby, and as you watch their pretty ways 
you find yourself acknowledging to yourself, and 
perhaps to your neighbor, the charm of it all. 
And he wonders why he has never before caught 
the spirit of these little creatures’ lives as they 
appeal to him to-day. Ah, my friend, you have 
been too busy to stop to throw open the shutters 
of your soul for a look into the heart of nature. 
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