94 Outlook to Nature 



other business in unsalaried hours, not always 

 so much, I think, because they desire to add 

 to their income, as to satisfy the longing for 

 some greater measure of independence. 



The farmer is about the only man left who 

 lives directly on his own efforts, without the aid 

 of salary, speculation, or the non-intrinsic prof- 

 its that accrue from trade. There is a tend- 

 ency to organize agriculture, and thereby to 

 develop salaries in it ; this tendency is no doubt 

 to be commended, yet I look with some appre- 

 hension to the effect that it may have on inde- 

 pendent effort and opinion. 



We need the out-of-doors. 



Certainly all our people need the open air 

 and the example of contact with freedom, and 

 the practice of good unconventionality. 



A matron of a large boarding-school for girls 

 told me recently that many of the pupils corne 

 to her so thinly clad that she is obliged to keep 

 her houses too warm for health in order to 

 make the girls comfortable. This school is 

 an expensive one and the girls come from well- 



