. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . THK OLD MILL Country Sights and Sounds 305. solitude and silence. We come to know ourselves and the world the deeper ways only when we are apart from the rush of things. It is only when traffic ceases and the dust is laid that tne landscape becomes clear and complete to the pedestrian. The quiet ol the woods, the cool note of the mountain streams, the silence of the summits, represent, not the luxuries and pleasures of a rich life, but its necessities. To the townsman these outly- after a wet snow-
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . THK OLD MILL Country Sights and Sounds 305. solitude and silence. We come to know ourselves and the world the deeper ways only when we are apart from the rush of things. It is only when traffic ceases and the dust is laid that tne landscape becomes clear and complete to the pedestrian. The quiet ol the woods, the cool note of the mountain streams, the silence of the summits, represent, not the luxuries and pleasures of a rich life, but its necessities. To the townsman these outly- after a wet snow-storm ing provinces of the farm are even more important than are the well-tilled day some man or woman will write a luminous book on the education of country life; the training of the eye, the ear, the hand, the unconscious enrichment of the senses and of the mind which are effected by its sights and sounds. There has never been in the long history of education, a better school for the open-minded, imaginative boy or girl than the farm. Every day sets its tasks, every task teaches its lessons; and nature stands looking
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