THE COUNTRY HOME [CHAPTER 
is nine acres, we ought to be able to find you all 
over those acres. It should all of it be your resi- 
dence. The gardens should suggest your idiosyn- 
crasies, and the hedges and the _ hiding-places 
should be your features. 
Dr. Edward Everett used to say, when he took his 
hat, “I am going in for a walk.’ When he stepped 
back indoors, he called it going out of his house — 
for he reckoned his real house to be his garden, 
his orchard, and the whole world at large. Really 
the most foreign place to our living processes is in- 
doors. President Hall has it that “health is whole- 
ness, or holiness, in its highest aspect.” He holds 
that every room of ours should have, first of all, the 
maximum of light and sunshine, and that we should 
live the larger part of our lives entirely apart from 
the house. Get out of bed early in the morning, 
and bathe in the rising sun’s rays. One morning 
hour is worth two at midday and four at night. 
The air is fuller of ozone, and the system is in a 
better condition to receive and absorb it. He tells 
us that the conditions for good health are these: 
“Pure air, sunshine, good companionship, proper 
nutrition, regular habits, suitable subjects of 
thought, and good tools.” 
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