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Show ram-. CVIL3 OP MODERN LIFE. Positive Opinions on ths Subject Held by Edward Everett Hal. Dr. Edward Everett Halo addressed), die Mothers and Fathers' club of Boston a day sr two ago. He startled his audience somowhat by saying: "Tonemont houses, some seventeen stories high, packed with people and ca.uslns all kinds of tenement-house lawa to bo made, aro as wicked as hell." He expressed the hope that In a hundred from yeara from now there would be no great cities. "What wo want." said tho orator, "ls to Initiate our children to live In the open air, to grow to lovo the country, ao that thoy can know the dlfforcnco between a turnip and a potato and between grass and hemlock. When this has been brought about wo will have been converted from tho miserable mis-erable mechanical machlno life wo are now living." |