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and labor expended. Therefore farming and 

 gardening must be the last occupation that a 

 man of parts will take up. To devote hours 

 to digging or gardening or any work which a 

 laborer at a dollar a day will accomplish as well, 

 is considered folly when a dollar an hour can 

 be earned at other work. If the accumulation 

 of money is the end of life, I suppose that 

 public opinion is right; but even upon this 

 point it may be doubted whether or not in the 

 long run the man who acquires sound health 

 by systematic out-door work does not stand a 

 better chance in the race for money than nine 

 tenths of his fellow-men. 



Dress is not an art founded upon fixed princi- 

 ples of beauty. What one generation admires 

 the next will ridicule. Perhaps the time will 

 come when patches will be in fashion. We 

 already find it possible to admire Oriental rugs 

 in tatters, and vast sums are paid for bits of Per- 

 sian carpets about to fall in pieces. Does not 

 every one know that should the Prince of Wales 

 appear in public with a shabby coat and a patch 

 upon both knees, that patches would appear 

 upon every fashionable knee, and t*hat un r 



