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know the story told by Charles Lamb. In speaking to a friend 

 he said with much vigor, "I hate Mr. B." "Why/' exclaimed 

 the friend; "I thought you didn't even know him." "No, of 

 course, I don't know him; if I knew him I couldn't hate him.'' 



I think it is Charles Dudley Warner who has written a 

 series of m-ost interesting magazine articles on the summer 

 boarder, showing how the yearly exodus from the cities of 

 New York and Boston into the quiet villages and farm houses 

 of New England, New York and N«w Jersey has modified both 

 city and country, bringing to the jaded city woman renewed 

 health, belief in simplicity and quiet country habits, while it 

 leaves upon the country a deposit of advanced civilization 

 which is seen in the more artistic arrangement of the home, 

 indoors and out, the modified style of the mother's gown, of 

 the daughter's hair and particularly in the increased amount 

 of literature of one kind and another which finds its way into 

 the house. In this way are formed friendships which last for 

 life and do much to ameliorate conditions at both ends of the 

 line. 



It is said also, and no doubt with truth, that bicycling 

 is bringing about a revolution in this regard and anything 

 which will do that let us encourage. I strongly realize that 

 there are some things in which we city folks have the advan- 

 tage of our country cousins. Of course, we have an unlimited 

 amount of entertainment and instruction right at our doors, 

 fine lectures, sermons, concerts, operas, dramatic performances 

 with constant opportunities to meet interesting people, to see 

 great pictures, to read great books and study them under the 

 finest teachers and the many full experiences of life, which 

 keep the mind alert and receptive to all that is going on in the 

 complex life of a great city; all these are not possible in the 

 country, and yet not nearly so impossible as many peoplQ 

 think. 



Books are awfully cheap. A small library to be used by 

 a neighborhood can be collected at an expense to each reader 

 that will astonish them and magazine exchanges can be ar- 

 ranged for at very small, almost no expense, and the good 

 they^may do is almost incalculable. 



