Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-10
ONE FORM OF THE REST CURE
City Men Who Buy Farms and Let
 Others Work Them.

Most city men are going to retire to the country some time if you may be- lieve what they say, and they don't propose to wait for a fortune either
 All they want is the assurance of a fair living The unanimity of senti.
 ment is remarkable, and so is the
 cause from which it springs, an in finite weariness that seems well nigh
 universal in city life, and that is felt
 not in old age merely, but by active, energetic business and professional men in their prime. It is anything to
 get away from noise and close con-
 tinement and the strenuous competition
 that produces ceaseless friction.
 There is something rather pathetic
 in the progress of the disease, and
 when it is so bad as to induce an in-
 vestment in farm property the pathos is very apt to increase. The city work is now contemplated as passing phase of existence, useful only as it may contribute to the upbuilding of the country estate, and the citizen of the world becomes as simple as a child. He would consult the authori- ties, and having purchased land for all orange ranch ill California bethinks himself to write the editor of one of the farmers weeklies on the coast for a statement of the profits that he is going to make when his trees are grown. Of course he has had state- ment already from the promoter who sold him the land, which was worth $25 an acre, for $1O0, but he has been a little unsettled by the comment of pessimists and wants confirmation. The editor, however, is person of vast experience in such cases and the wisest of oracles. He intimates that California is large state and that there may be difference of soil in an acre lot. Oranges do we'll in some To- calities and not at all we'll in others. Sometimes the market is good and sometimes it is bad. Evidently this oracle is admirably equipped to head a safe and sane ticket, but there is real compassion in his heart and he suggests that long-distance orange cul- ture has its disquieting aspects. Can't the anxious inquirer personally con- duct operations? gfl a-ss- -
 OnIOrluudtely It IS lOt OIten tlfdI ue can. because he has to keep right on earning enough at the old trade to make up the deficit, and only recently we saw one of his letters, which was written twelve years after he had be- gun the rest cure. and which showed that he was still inquiring, if not learning. He said that his place had never come anywhere near paying ex- penses, and indicated that his suscepti- bilities had been shocked by certain unexpected and disagreeable develop ments. The promoter, who it is to be hoped has reformed by this time, had laid particular stress upon the fine quality of the oranges in the particular district where his land was. and also upon the marvellous propensity to yipen early when prices promised indepen- dence and the delights of foreign travel. But as matter of fact they were among the last on the market and no better than punk.
 This is really very pathetic, but let us not forget the benefits in the an nually renewed hopes and the satis- faction of knowing that the private sanitarium was pretty near ready fo: occupancy at any time. Who would say that there is no rest in a twelve year pipe dreamf-Chicago Record Herald.