The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-13

with a great deal OF baggage which h9d
accumulated from long housekeeping ana
which he mad not the courage 20 curn.
The fatal faint OF artficlality Is often
observable IN the courtesies and refine
ments of urban social life. Individuality
is suppressed and manners are constrained
in the encleavor 20 conform to the rec
ognized standard Frankness and sim
plicity of speech are the marks OF the
boor We are charmed with the music
which has tortured every nerve We have
been longing for weeks for the visit
which He hoped would never be made.
We are so pleased to meet the gentle
man from whom we turn in disgust. We
ere delighted' to have been bored at re
captions and teas. From our historical
speech the old-tme positive and compar-
ative degree in plain homespun are rig
idly excluded; only the surerlative appears
i'll good society. No reserve of moment,
no grateful silence no calm candor OF
emotion; but only raptures and ecstacics.
the weakness. q, the pity.
Zone of the sanest of the ancient philo-
sophers compares a man who has severed
himself from union with nature to a hand
or foot cut of and removed from the
body; but he goes to say, though God
set man above the necessity of breaking
off from nature. He shows him SPECIAL
bounty in giving him the power to re-
join the body and recover the advantage
of being the same member he was at first.
am glad to turn to the contemplation Of
such a possibility. Even where the sep
aration has been most radical there are
signs of reaction and return. and | es-
TEEN it a fortunate circumstance that
this reactionary tendency abroad estab-
hshed itself before our own beloved State
was very far wandered into the alien
realm of extravaganza and artlfclallty
Her populton Is markedly homogeneous
and ninety-tWo Fer cent rural, and her
comparative remoteness from the main
current OF modern progress. which was
once her reproach among her sisters, must
be credited with the compensation OF hav-
ing preserved her from much of the ply
steal and moral deterioration which Is
the penalty of acuter phrases of social
development in other communities. Al
low me to speak Of sore symptoms OF the
reaction referred to and to point out Ger
tain facts likely TO quicken it. May we
not hope that they prophesy the good
day when prcdigal society, too far wand
cred from the bosom of nature. VIII be
III AT HOME AGAIN.
''Thc Unsuitable earth-hunger is not con-
fined to a few poetic and susceptible
souls. II draws out of the cities annually
great migration of people to the coun-
try, 10 the seaside, and 10 the mountains,
where once more they become simple and
free And as social and industrial COM
IL, hn 10 W
this annual refreshment increases. Does
the human nature, in which the lower
world elements are gathered up into a
higher unity. yearn blindly for its kind
redq Does it sigh for the bosom where
the infancy law Whatever explanation,
scientific or romantic, you prefer. there is
no denying the strength OF tr;- old at
traction OF country hfe.
"Rut today new attractions are rem
forcing The old. Country life is enrlching
a. never before. l am not now saying
that farmers are growing richer. | hope
they are. though appearances sometimes
point thp other way BE that as it may.
,ro are now concerned with the enrich
ncnt of the farmers life not the filing
of the farmers purse.
Il Comfort. 1t is to be noted, in the
FIRST place, that country life is at last
hcriuning to share in the bcncticent rovo.
luton which science has lately wrought
n the means and modes of life. The
standard of comfortable living is spread
ing into the country and, what is import
ant il is found TO be practically appli-
,ahle there We have discovered, for ex-
ample, that given lot of materials for
house can be put together IN a com
Portable aud convenient dwelling at no
additional cost for the comfort aud con
ycuicucc We have a series of practical
looks on Home Building and Furnishing,
How to Plan Homo Grounds How TO
Make Flower Garden ctc. We arc
making aiioi her diseoypry-making il in
spots but the spots will multiply and
meet the discovery, namely, that re are