CHAPTER XXIV 



BACK TO THE LAND 



VOLUMES have been written upon this sub- 

 ject. Some true and sensible things have 

 been said about it, but much that has been written 

 gives no practicable suggestions. 



There is no city man or woman who came from 

 the farm but what has a yearning to "wander 

 back again" to the land to be touched with Na- 

 ture's charms. And many men and women who 

 never knew country life also yearn to throw off 

 the burden of city life for the freer country ex- 

 istence. And yet but a small per cent, of this 

 dreaming ever becomes a reality. Many who once 

 get hold of city or town existence cannot let loose, 

 and the probabilities are that many of them would 

 make a failure of the business of farming if they 

 could loosen their grip on city life and get back 

 to the land. 



By instinct man is a social animal and is ever 

 seeking to be amused. He delights in stimulation 

 and excitement, in the weird, the mystery. This 

 trait in man is susceptible to cultivation by mental 

 processes. Let his mind run even lightly in that 

 direction and he reaches that state where life is 

 as a dreary waste, unless he has an opportunity 

 to indulge in those things that stimulate and ex- 

 cite his many senses. 



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