8 With Feet to the Earth 



out of doors all the time may be rough, 

 but^his manhood js. sound. The mean peo- 

 ple, l&eAnisWsj ih : sharpers, the tyrants, 

 ^haye Jip . vagcom dispositions. Soldiers, 

 s*aiJo*sJ GGwt>by, JluiftbVnjien, hunters, fish- 

 ers, prospectors, wagoners, missionaries, 

 you find them good company, don't you? 

 Yet it is a company that may spoil in the 

 house. The man who has sky in his eye 

 has sunlight deeper in, and the green 

 things of earth make fertile tracts in his 

 head. It is a self-preservative instinct, a 

 means to health, a business against glooms, 

 that gets folks out of doors. Only since 

 we had furnaces and radiators instead of 

 fireplaces, only since we invented tene- 

 ments, only since yards, trees, and song- 

 birds were abolished in our cities, have we 

 taken to nervous dyspepsia, lame livers, 

 Bright's disease, neurosis, pessimism, pare- 

 sis, and corns. Bah ! Get away from 

 them all. Turn your steps to the country. 

 Improve your leisure with vagrancy. 



When weather and disposition permit, r 

 the former does for eight months in the 

 year ; the latter ought to always, sprawl 



