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Show 7 The Real Thing , VVOULD you trade places with the family ": always living outdoors? Just imagine what It would be like gorgeous scenery as a constant stage setting for your life, wonderful won-derful trout fishing in a mountain stream at your very door, a garden in which you could grow most of your food, as nature Intended. . All of us yearn for such a life. We show It by our attempts to beautify our city environment' environ-ment' by trees, shrubs and flowers. It's pathetic pa-thetic at times how this Instinct crops out, as in the tenement Vhere a lope geranium struggles strug-gles in a window box overlooking a steel fire escape and a brick courtyarJ. In a matter or a few generations man has virtually divorced -himself, fiom nature and walled himself in a penitertiary of steel, stone, plaster and brick. This penitentiary has its advantages, chiefly 4n th form of what we call "comforts" or "conveniences. " But we pay dearly for the gain. Disease thrives with us in civilization, and Increasingly finds us easier prey. ' So, especially at this time of year when we reluctantly return from our vacations in the great outdoors to our artificial e.viron-ments, e.viron-ments, we envy the rugged people, who '.ive :lose to nature. Happiness is close to nature, na-ture, for civilized man as much as for the caged jungle tiger. |