ON THE OPEN COUNTRY 



Any intelligent layout of country roads 

 should consider the different purposes to 

 which different roads are put. One is a 

 heavy-traffic thoroughfare for loaded 

 wagons and automobiles. It must have 

 direct lines, easy grades, and well-made 

 roadbeds. Another is a farm road, serving 

 only one or two small back homesteads. 

 It requires less attention. Still other roads 

 will be chiefly valuable because they offer 

 especially attractive scenery. They border 

 on some lake, follow some river, or traverse 

 a tract of fine woodland. 



Such scenic roads there are, or ought 

 to be, in every country district, and in any 

 fair estimate they are just as valuable as 

 the traffic roads. It ought to be recognized 

 as a public duty to open these up and make 

 them popular. Every man knows that the 

 most attractive scenery in the world clings 

 naturally to the country road. What more 

 enjoyable recreation is there than to explore 

 mile after mile in a comfortable buggy, on 

 bicycle or in a good motor car? 



Omar thought he could attain the 

 height of earthly bliss if he had his book 

 of verses, "a jug of wine and Thou." 

 Evidently he had never taken his best girl 



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