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strong young hands to lighten his toil. The boy who might have lived a 

 sturdy, healthful, independent life among his native hills is a bleached 

 and sallow youth measuring ribbons and calicoes behind a city counter. 

 The girl who might have been the mistress of a tree-shadowed country 

 house disappears under much darker shadows in town. But for their 



The Home She Might Have Had. 



early home life, so meager and devoid of interest, they might have 

 breathed pure air all their days. 



Not the least among the means of making a home attractive would be 

 a well-maintained fruit garden. The heart and the stomach have been 

 found nearer together by the metaphysicians than the physiologists, and 

 if the " house mother," as the Germans say, beamed often at her children 

 over a great dish of berries flanked by a pitcher of unskimmed milk, not 

 only good blood and good feeling would be developed, but something 

 that the poets call " early ties." 



There is one form of gambling or speculation that, within proper 

 limits, is entirely innocent and healthful the raising of new seedling 

 fruits and the testing of new varieties. In these pursuits, the elements of 

 chance, skill and judgment enter so evenly that they are an unfailing 

 source of pleasurable excitement. The catalogues of plant, tree and seed 



