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ribbon took on added beauty, and, as the years passed, seemed to 

 fairly shout development. 



The time was ripe, and I began in earnest to work out my villa 

 dream, closely identified with which is the arboretum, tying our 

 Farmarcadia together. 



Does it pay to have no recreation gaps between the working 

 hours, hours that crowd each other hard in the mad rush to accom- 

 plish ? A genuine burden-bearer one forced by circumstances to be 

 a pack-horse-treadmill-worker loved to quote the well known lines: 



"Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay." 



Many a man in these strenuous days whose obituary gives his 

 age as less than fifty years, has lived full five centuries, gauged by a 

 slow moving past. Activity is joy, and roadways blocked with worries 

 and wearing responsibilities, when met in the right spirit, become 

 broad highways illumined from the source of all light. 



"God's in His Heaven, all's right with the world." 



