ON LANDSCAPE AND LIFE 



sleeping or waking compared with the 

 champagne that we taste once a year at the 

 annual reunion. The champagne costs 

 more: we are apt to notice its effects more. 

 Very likely it gives us a headache. 



One can take a long ocean trip and rid 

 himself of the newspapers. One can go to 

 Bolivia or Hudson's Bay and get away 

 from society. But even in New York or 

 Paris it is hard to evade the landscape. 

 Some persons there are in the slums of the 

 great cities who come near doing it; but 

 they are comparatively few, and their 

 wretched condition shows too well what 

 the penalty is. And, simply enough, those 

 philanthropists who are seeking to help 

 such wretched ones — submerged in society 

 — use as a chief means the introduction of 

 more landscape into their lives. 



For landscape is one of the greatest 

 curative agencies. Hospitals are built in 

 the country whenever that is possible. The 

 fresh-air fund is established to provide sick 

 and dying ones with some touch of the 

 healing landscape. The fashionable physi- 

 cians prescribe country air and change of 

 scenery for their wealthy patients. 



The landscape has almost unthinkable 



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