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the fact that it can be carried on by men dressed u^j, whose hands are kept 

 clean and soft, and whose faces are dehcately pale and generally emaciated; 

 pale and thin, very likely, for want of strong lungs and fresh, pure air 

 and the lack of a good stomach and a corres^jonding appetite and an abund- 

 ance of wholesome food, such as you always have on the farm. 



Do not deceive yourselves by the delusive fancy that to live in the 

 city where you will never get accjuainted with your neighbors, and where 

 the only amusement or recreation you can enjoy outside four stuffy walls, 

 except you plank down one or two hard-earned dollars for a ticket to some- 

 thing, is to walk up and down miles of streets and look into show windows, 

 fixsd up to trap the unwary passers into buying something they don't need, 

 is a better and happier abode than a good, comfortable farm home with a 

 smokeless sky overhead and clean dirt underneath, and water to drink 

 which is not pumped from a drainage canal, and with fine horses, and fat 

 steers, and swine to look at, when at leisure, instead of the "jim cracks" of 

 a jewelry shop, or the unmentionable and useless finery and things of other 

 shops hung out by the city merchants to temyjt you to purchase. 



Think over the ways of the great city and then forever afterwards 

 avoid it. 



Not that we would advise you never to visit a city. No. Once a 

 year, or, perhaps, less frequently, it may be well to cautiously enter its 

 gates and breathe for a day the coal soot and brimstone loaded atmosphere 

 of the metropolis. To take a peep into some of the dark holes, or stores, 

 or trade marts, where bustling men and women are toiling and struggling, 

 many to make just a little less than living wages, and some others, grunting 

 and sweating to beat and push away their rivals and amass what they 

 deem a fortune, utterly ignoring the divine teaching, '"What shall it profit 

 a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul." 



Visit for an hour the levee, so-called, a place known in some cities as 

 "Hell's six acres," but be sure and take a stalwart policeman along. It is 

 well to go there to get a glimpse of the unutterable poverty, misery, and 

 sin, and the uncleanliness and degregation that human life can endure 

 and for a time survive; then you should note how near to this festering 

 swarm of human rottenness and woe the grand avenues and boulevards 

 run, where the palaces of men who are gorged with accumulated riches 

 stand as monuments of their success, at winning victories, by cunning and 

 avarice, and largely by accident, over their fellow-men. 



We would advise also, that you look at the reverse side of the great 

 city, for there is a reverse side. Sodom and Gomorah had their temples 

 of art, and these were, in their time, worthy of an occasional visit. 



You should look into the museums and galleries and attend one or 

 more of the grand concerts to catch a little of the inspiration that comes 

 from the performances of great artists. Do not fail to look into the 

 public libraries and book stores, the latter to select a number of volumes 



