Healthy People 



who appreciate the buoyancy and exuberance that comes from pure 

 blood and strong muscles and who find it worth while to obey natural 

 laws of the physical body, and who have time and the will power to 

 bathe not only in water, but also in the life-giving sunshine. 



Industrious People 



who are absorbed in their work because it is the most natural work for 

 man, and who realize that the work of producing is the highest and 

 most noble work given to the hands of man to perform, and who 

 understand that "Man should earn his bread by the sweat of his 

 brow," before he can truly enjoy it, and who perceive that "he who 

 does not get pleasure out of his work does not know what real pleasure 

 is" ; who work not alone for dollars, but for self-perfection, for the joy of 

 activity, and for the beauty and wealth created. 



Social People 



who love to mingle with their neighbors in the community Club House 

 and exchange ideas on the best ways of conducting life in order to 

 obtain the greatest happiness; who love to listen to good music and 

 readings from the best literature. 



Moral People 



who are not afraid to worship the good, the true, and the beautiful, 

 wherever found. 



These are some of the virtues of the people that have made Runny- 

 mede a desirable place in which to dwell, a land that "flows with milk 

 and honey," a land of peace and prosperity, health and happiness. 



We want only the highest type of men and women for Runnymede, 

 and if you, dear reader, are searching for that promised land, where 

 peace and plenty, good will, intellectual and social life abound, we 

 invite you to investigate Runnymede, a place of garden homes with 

 poultry and rabbits and bees and goats and cows and hogs and all 

 that pertains to the comfort of man. 



44 Where There Is No Vision the Nations Perish" 



RUNNYMEDE is the realization of a vision that was dreamed by 

 Charles Weeks more than fifteen years ago. For fifteen years he has 

 been proving, step by step, on his own little plot of land, the wonderful 

 possibilities of a little land and a living. He has evolved a system of 

 poultry raising that is fool proof and so simple and sure that any 

 intelligent, industrious person can work it. He did not wish to "hide 

 his light under a bushel," but wanted to show the whole world the 

 sanity of this natural, peaceful, healthful way of living on a little laud; 

 and so it came to pass that from out the vision of many years before, 

 RUNNYMEDE, THE CHARLES WEEKS POULTRY COLONY, 

 was born. On the rich, level, well-watered, garden loam soil, there 

 sprang up, as if by magic, pretty garden homes with long rows of 

 poultry nouses filled with profitable laying hens. Soon the first 



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