POSSIBILITIES OF THE FUTURE 



energy to getting more, we shall begin to set about 

 enjoying what we already have ; and the feverish pace 

 of our pulses will drop to a normal and healthier beat. 



The era of the man entirely wrapped up in his busi- 

 ness is passing. He is, after all, only partly a man. 

 Remove him from his daily task, his office seat, and 

 nothing is left for him but to die, to stop running, like 

 a machine whose single motive power has ceased. 

 The young man of to-day is more concerned in giving 

 his faculties free play, in fulfilling himself in as many 

 directions as possible. He may be, and usually is, a 

 specialist so far as his work is in question ; but he does 

 not allow his work to swamp him. Art, philosophy, 

 and play enter into the scheme of his conception, and 

 he is likely to prove a far better citizen than his father 

 before him, as well as a happier one. 



As for women, their wider activities nowadays make 

 them the more desirous of a contrasting peace. The 

 number of women earning their own way who lay aside 

 something with the object of eventually owning a little 

 place in the country is surprisingly large. Women 

 have always loved gardens, and the fact that they are 

 becoming more able to get what they want is going to 

 put many a woman in the center of an exquisitely 

 tended acre or two who would formerly have been 

 obliged to fret her soul out in a boarding-house, or, at 

 the best, content herself with sharing the home of a 

 more fortunate sister. Many a sweet seaside garden 



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