POSSIBILITIES OF THE FUTURE 
energy to getting more, we shall begin to set about 
enjoying what we already have; and the feverish pace 
of our pulses will drop to a normal and healthier beat. 
The era of the man entirely wrapped up in his busi¬ 
ness is passing. He is, after all, only partly a man. 
Remove him from his daily task, his office seat, and 
nothing is left for him but to die, to stop running, like 
a machine whose single motive power has ceased. 
The young man of to-day is more concerned in giving 
his faculties free play, in fulfilling himself in as many 
directions as possible. He may be, and usually is, a 
specialist so far as his work is in question; but he does 
not allow his work to swamp him. Art, philosophy, 
and play enter into the scheme of his conception, and 
he is likely to prove a far better citizen than his father 
before him, as well as a happier one. 
As for women, their wider activities nowadays make 
them the more desirous of a contrasting peace. The 
number of women earning their own way who lay aside 
something with the object of eventually owning a little 
place in the country is surprisingly large. Women 
have always loved gardens, and the fact that they are 
becoming more able to get what they want is going to 
put many a woman in the center of an exquisitely 
tended acre or two who would formerly have been 
obliged to fret her soul out in a boarding-house, or, at 
the best, content herself with sharing the home of a 
more fortunate sister. Many a sweet seaside garden 
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