Foreword 



ity of another sort. It is not idleness that is 

 needed, for idleness has no tonic in it. What 

 is necessary is change, — change of work, change 

 of conditions, change of thought. Therefore 

 to the overworked housewife I would prescribe 

 a season of gardening as better than all the 

 doctors' drugs. ''Throw physic to the dogs,'* 

 and arm yourself with a hoe and rake, and dig 

 for health among the garden beds. Nine times 

 out of ten those who seek for it there will find 

 it, I feel very sure. 



