CHAPTER X 



OUR GUEST BOOK 



POSSIBLY one great reason for the general 

 exodus of the American people country-ward is 

 the realization that we are living at too fast a 

 pace; that the whirl in which we take our pleasures as 

 well as our more serious occupations is lacking in some 

 of the attributes which were dear to our forefathers. 

 Certainly a country house is a pleasing remedy; for 

 here the real individuality of the owner may be ex 

 pressed, and here he may have time to become really 

 acquainted with those friends whom he likes the best. 

 Sometimes I think that the chief charm of a home 

 in the country is the opportunity its leisure gives to 

 know one's friends better, to make friends of mere 

 acquaintances, to become familiar with the people who 

 are actually accomplishing things in life whether 

 through settlement work, church work, educational 

 work, painting, sculpture, architecture, books, or na- 



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