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problem given by the city is not the 

 beautifying of streeets and the eleva- 

 tion of civic morals while the attrac- 

 tion is continued in a call for more 

 country product. The problem of 

 the city is to destroy its fascination 

 for the country man and woman. 



It is refreshing to-day to find the 

 individual who, coming to the city 

 for a season, goes back to his moun- 

 tain, lake, or prairie home, glad to 

 escape to its refuge, and glad to stay 

 there. That man is the hope of the 

 future. He is the one who is not led 

 away from what is healthful and 

 natural to what is veneered with 

 those things, but beneath is artificial- 

 ity and disorder. That man finds the 

 Eden of to-day, and has strength 

 enough to reject the tempter, who 



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