2O4 LIBERTY AND A LIVING. 



bition of every one has been to get away from 

 it. The farmer's son deserts the farm ; the car- 

 penter's son leaves the bench ; any occupation 

 which allows a man to wear a coat and keep his 

 hands white is considered better than manual 

 labor. It is commonly considered that of all 

 the occupations farming pays the least money 

 in proportion to the care 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 dol- 

 lar an hour can be earned at other work. If the 

 accumulation of money is the end of life, I sup- 

 pose 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 



