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Show I SAMPLE OF MODERN METHODS. Millionaire's Idea of "Getting Back to Nature." "Yes, air," said tho drlcd-beef millionaire; mil-lionaire; "I have found that what thoso fellows say about a return to naturo Is all right. My country place Is Just making a now man of me. Tlicro I am surrounded by tho works of nature on every side, and tho effect hoa been not less thnn wonderful." "Whero Is jour country placet" "Out whero there used to be that sandy common. I have brought tree from fifty miles nway and planted 'fan 1 have had an artificial lake made. 1 havo sodded that whole sand dune I havo electric lights or gm lampt scattered everywhere. I havo slim tho surf awny with a ten-foot break water. I've got awnings to keep tlu sun off you as jou loaf thero ant fancy hedges to break tho wind's forte I'vo got u tank forty feet aqlinro whore tho water Is heated or cooler to suit tho bather's taste. Thoro arc olectric fans out on the la.wn for hot dayB, and steam heat can be turned on In all the supimer houses when the days nro chilly. There's nothing that tho mind of man ir the Ingenuity of humnn linnds can compass that I've not got there to mako life comfortable. comfort-able. Como out' some day and get mado over. I tell ou, dear boy, yoii fellows who work tho whole ''car around here Hi- the city don't know what you miss. Come out wlHi mo and learn how much communion with old Mother N'aturo will do to set you up." Jildgo. |