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has any. I must carry out other people's feeUngs 

 and views. Very well, I am going into the country 

 to make a home for mine own self. I have about 

 two thousand dollars to use, and now I want your 

 advice. Can a woman make a living in the country, 

 without a man to take care of her ? Why cannot I 

 keep bees, or raise chickens for broilers, or have a 

 greenhouse, or grow small fruits ? " To be sure, you 

 can do all or any of these things, if, with a small 

 capital, you have grit and judgment. Another letter 

 is from a young fellow who says, "I was born in 

 the country, but my schooling did not fit me for life 

 on the farm ; it only taught me how to ' do busi- 

 ness ' ; I did not understand that farming is business. 

 City life seemed to me something better and larger 

 than country life, and handling capital to be the 

 greatest possible ambition. I have done business, 

 and I have handled capital. I begin to see now 

 that my life is not broad, but desperately narrow. 

 I wish my children to grow up with the trees and the 

 birds. I should like your advice about how to get 

 a home, where we shall be right in the line of what 

 I call modern progress — that is, progress toward 

 simple and natural life. I shall gradually let go 

 of city work, and my ambition will be to create 



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