The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-18

Tn ca-. very moderate coc+
- Germany walking parties nanetrat
every forest and Climb eyerv M. a ~
nieldole paths open m the ua
- oeeuery, not to those who -
49, - ana stay at expensive hotels
1aI'o those who carry knapsacks an
art aohS and practice that ancient
: VI walking which still is ana al
ways will be, the most natural ~, e.
9ohe ana enjoyable form of travol
~ ne beautiful Thiegarten in ~
I'll thousands Of people dine avarv
n.snt UNDER the trees, and from the
70 the southern frontier bread
IS broken and eaten under the earIr
stars. ~ LAX carry
IN France people do not go o,pt Of
doors; they live out of doors svU,at
goes on here?" was the charactaristic
question Oh a Quick-moving Anari-
can girl as a train drew up at a
qolet station and a host of neopIe
poured out across the platform into
the a and paths. Mature" was
the equally characteristic replv Of .
young man of the mt Nature
was ail-suflcient for the eager multi
Jude; they did not need a program.
The French rivers not only u
through France. they run through its
halttual life, ,and are Tart Of its
simple instructive practice of the art
OF living. Our rivers are largely given
over to commerce; we make excursions
on them. h French live with their
rivers; they are devout fishermen; in
spite of their excitable temperaments
they line the river banks. So few
are the fish they seem to catch that
Mr.. James has suggested that they
practice the art for the arts sake.
On the Seine, the Loire, the Marine,
the Alller, they stand or sit patiently
hour after hour, glad of the open
Sky, the smiling landscape with it's
\ Cnf grrnx Crrnnr t~-1 u II: .
the village, White-walled and red
rooted, the lush vegetation that sets a
gently moving border to the friendly
stream.
And wherever there is a town, big
or little. there are chairs and tables
set under the trees on the shore: and
there is not the noisy feasting of ex-
cursionists, but the quiet gayety Of
those who are at home in the open
air. The open air cafe, the table in
the court of the little inn, or on the
sidewalk of the little town, or in pri-
waite gardens, go far to explain the
charming social habit of the French,
their instructive friendliness, their pas
sionate love of their country. h
country is only an extension OF their
homes. And is there any more re
Treahing prelude to the work and
pleasure of the day than the breakfast
out OF doors? The simple repast OF
| cOiIGe anu EtilS. Win l1e pIcdtIl u
the morning in the air and the fresh
ness of the awakening earth, becomes
a feast of gladness instead Of a hur-
ried preparation for work. When vii
Americans learn how much pleasure
they are missing because they ST
rarely invite nature to sit at the break
fast table and give thanks to Coo
for His light and air? And luncheon
and dinner have a new zest when the
table is spread out Of doors ana the
guests gather as to a feast to which
birds are hidden and from which the
stars are not shut out. American!
take long journeys and spend grea'
sums of money on camp equipment
that they NAV enjoy q few meals II
the open. Why go hundreds of mile!
and spend hundreds of dollars tor {
pleasure which can be secured II
countless home by a little thought ano
expense? Where is the boasted en-
terprise of the American hotel keeper
who now talks about revolutlonlzins
Europe, and so rarely provides a TORN
of entertainments which would brins
guests fiocking to a We'll kept tree
embowered inn, with arden ans
tables Get out of doors?
Light and air are also coming lht'
American life, but there must com'
a far wider and clearer knoWledgt
of their life-giving qualities, then
curative power. Where lhey Pehe
trate the plague cannot originate, no.
can disease thrive; they are the oead
" foes of the germ. In their apSenc'
he white plague takes on the pro
portions of q p~estilence; the cure 10
tuberculosis is not medicine, but al
an5 licht. the concentrated VFtallt,
Of o~ut-of-doors. The lesson OF healli
nv living out OF doors must De learhe'
by all classes.
o .1ouut Tobacco Market.