214 LIBERTY AND A LIVING. 



through kaleidoscopes that they may discover 

 the particular figure which this generation re- 

 quires to-day." 



In writing of clothing, I wish, however, to 

 make plain that inexpensive clothes do not 

 imply shabbiness or carelessness in personal 

 appearance, but simply that the blouse of the 

 French workman is better than the dirty linen 

 shirt of the American workman. To be appro- 

 priately dressed does not, in these days of cor- 

 duroys and flannel shirts, cost either much 

 money or time, and the man who allows him- 

 self and his children to go dressed as scarecrows 

 misses one element for good in country life. 

 Clothing which may be out of place in town 

 may become just the thing in the country life, 

 even though its cost is insignificant as com- 

 pared to the dress of the city man. Were my 

 income twenty times as large as it is, I should 

 not care to dress better than I do. For the 

 children blue-flannel dresses are cheap, but 

 could any thing be more appropriate for the 

 life on the water which they lead ? 



In one of his books on fishing, Frank Forester 

 (H. W. Herbert) says that if he led the life of 

 a backwoodsman, and dwelt in a cabin on top 



