COUNTRY LIFE, OLD AND NEW 



of a new type of rural school work that will tend to 

 fit the masses for real country life rather than be a step 

 toward a classical education, to which only the few will 

 ever attain. 



There are two types of country homes, more or less 

 common throughout the county. One is represented by 

 country estates owned by city men of wealth, who use 

 the country mainly as a playground, and whose interest 

 in country life and country affairs is generally tempo- 

 rary. The other is represented by those farms that 

 have come down in the family line through many gener- 

 ations and whose owners are trying to perpetuate a 

 form of country life that seeks to gain a comfortable 

 living from the land, and at the same time to rear and 

 educate well a family under wholesome rural conditions. 



The country estates, owned and used as summer 

 homes by business men from the cities, may be divided 

 into two classes: those occupying large areas whose 

 owners are farming on an extensive scale, and those 

 occupying limited areas whose owners are interested 

 mainly in having a beautiful and restful summer home, 

 with land enough to provide a playground and choice 

 farm products sufficient to meet the needs of the family. 



Men of wealth in this country are developing a ten- 

 dency toward the establishment of a landed aristocracy, 

 but at the same time are not adopting the business pol- 

 icy in land management that our English cousins are 



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