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Show PLEASURE IN FRUITS Too Many People Are Huddled Together in Big Cities. If One Would Interest Himself in Orcharding He Would Find All Nature Na-ture Soon Assuming New Friendliness for Him. i (By R. B. BUCKHAJI.) What the great majority of people, young and old, of today need more than anything else is to be taught how to enjoy the pleasures and advantages ad-vantages of life in the country. When one stops to think of it, what a shame it is that so many should be huddled together and cooped up in the great cities, all the year round, when they ought to be out in the open! Recommend to a friend to try the country, and you will doubtless find him ready enough to make the attempt, at-tempt, but in a week or so you will quite likely see him coming back again, bag and baggage. He did not find it to his liking, and gave it up. And it is only natural that he should; a result to be expected; for he was simply out of his accustomed environment, environ-ment, and ill at ease. He did not know how to accustom himself to his new surroundings, and so did not find them- satisfactory. It is the outcome of the same principle prin-ciple which will be seen at work in many other fields of experience. It is said that when a person beholds the sea for the first time, it rarely, if ever, makes an impression upon him. It is to him a wide expanse of water, and that is all. But as one comes to know it better, its many moods and ever-changing ever-changing aspects, it becomes at length grand, impressive, . awe-inspiring, and an endless source of fascination. Ifr is sd, too, with the works of the great masters of the past' He who looks upon even their greatest masterpieces master-pieces for the first time usually wonders, won-ders, if at all, that they should appeal to others as they do. But as he comes to be able to understand and appreciate them, he too, feels their all absorbing charm and noble inspiration. inspira-tion. One must know how to appreciate the country, in order to enjoy it. - Confirmed Con-firmed city dwellers are accustomed to bting amused all the time. Every ofle of their waking hours must be frittered away with foibles of one kind or another, or they are miserable. They will sit for hours and watch a juggler perform his tricks, though they know them to be but a deception all the time, and yet the great processes pro-cesses of nature may go on before them without arousing their interest in the least! But if they only knew how to find entertainment in the changing seasons, the great dramas of seedtime and harvest, the story would be a vastly different one. It is said that the Danish, wholly an agricultural agricul-tural people, are the happiest in the world. None need ever lack occupation and entertainment for all of his time, when once he has made friends with nature. na-ture. Take for example fruit growing. grow-ing. If one would but interest himself him-self in this one branch of agriculture he would find all nature assuming a new friendliness for him. There is a companionship to be gotten out of the care and observation of trees, very real and satisfying. Says Thoreau, the seer of Walden Pond, "Sympathy 'with the fluttering alder and poplar leaves almost takes away my breath." Since the dawn of creation the trees have housed and fed the race, and yet some in these latter days have so drifted away from this old-time partnership part-nership of interests as to become almost al-most complete strangers to their old-time old-time benefactors. Surely, this should not be! It is unnatural and unwholesome. unwhole-some. Do not fail to renew the old alliance with the trees. It will bring you a new hold upon life, and help to heal the long-time breach between you and mother earth. |
