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prieved. It is, therefore, to be hoped that there 

 will be a large and rapid extension of this com- 

 mon sense principle. 



The plan undertaken will provide occupation, 

 training and support for those who are convales- 

 cent from consumption. Little work is to be 

 expected from those who are ill, but when the 

 patient is cured, or the disease arrested, the per- 

 son requires outdoor life and the opportunity of 

 self-support without returning to indoor labor. 



This is no experiment; it has been done on a 

 charitable basis in more than twenty places in 

 the United States. That it can be done and 

 how it is being done by the use of very small 

 patches of land intensively used, is amply shown 

 elsewhere. The paralytic, rheumatics, drunkards, 

 defectives, cripples, women, even children, can 

 shift for themselves, if they get to mother earth. 

 Says Lyman Abbot: "For one man who can 

 find a job there are thousands who can do a job 

 well when it is found for them." We must find 

 it for them, but how? 



People will work and work effectively, when 

 they have the opportunity and intelligent super- 



