Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-10-21 | Page 21 | "Let Us Go Home,"

LET US GO HOME Say what you will of the coldness and selfishness of men at the last we long sclshne companionship and the fellowship fellow-ship of our kind We arc lost children and when alone and the darkness begins be-gins to gather we sigh for the close relationship of the brothers and sisters we knew In our childhood and cry for the gentle arms that once rocked us to Ileep gente > are homesick amid this sad mad rush for wealth and place and power The calm of the country In Altes and we fain would do with less things and go back to simplicity and rent And so It came to pass that about the year 2001 men began to think and they saw that to work all day with hands your head and never with your failed to bring conlent Th < most successful suc-cessful man was the most unhappy and they turned at last from the city to the country They said Let us go home all Is so QUiet there They found having taken a Hlllo lime that there was a beauty In the country they had not quite forgotten and the melody of tho water running over the pebbles hastening hasten-ing to the sea was 0 song of gladness They saw too thai nrimals and birds thai lived In the open air ncAer went into decline that the chipmunks 1 health did not fall nor the quail have nervous prostration Elbert Hubbard I In Good Housekeeping for October