FINE ARTS OF A COUNTRY HOME 253 



off for several hours of work at the churn or other 

 service. 



We shall not go backward to pick up the charm- 

 ing industries of elder days, but we are surely going 

 forward to make indoor life more beautiful and less 

 taskful. This it seems to me is what the country 

 home is going to be, not a whit behind town life, but 

 very far ahead of it in its arts and its sciences as 

 well as its pleasures and its profits. It will have 

 about all that heretofore has been associated closely 

 with the crowded town, and will also have its rural 

 charms, its freedom of simplicity and its association 

 with Nature. Agriculture or land tillage in any 

 form will not only be the equal, but supreme among 

 the industries. It is left now for the Burbanks and 

 the Munsons and the Budds and the Baileys to mar- 

 shal mankind and lead the world. 



