Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-05
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GET BACK TO NATURE.
lSioux City Tribune.l
Merely to bask and ripen Is sometimes
The students wiser business
To mix his blood with sunshine and to
take
The wild into his pulses.
1t is housekeeping time Of year. the
time Of year when the winters &C
cumulation of odds and ends-trash-is
thrown out and destroyed, when soap
and water and paint and whitewash are
called into service to assist in the gen.
eral work of cleaning up. Yards are
raked, cellars emptied and every one
gets ready to greet the days Of long
sunshine and open windows.
Nor is the human body and mind an
exception. 1t is the period Of rejuven-
alton and readjustment. II one is old
fashioned, 1t is the period of sassafras
tea, sulphur and greens" the signal
for the lessening of the heavy meat
diet Of the winter and fresh vegetables.
TONES and blood purifiers are in vogue
to get the humours Of the winter out
of the system.
Clubs and debating societies disband,
schools adjourn, banks and business
houses go to shorter hours and Satur-
day half holidays. Everybody wants to
get outdoors. 1t is the call. of nature
to her children. 1t is the natural re-
vulsion that comes to all men after a
period of too continual and too close
communion with their fellow men,
..hating the crowd where we gregari-
Gus men lead lonely lives" 1t was a
Greek philosopher whose immortal wis
dom has come down thru the ages who
sent the schoolmaster a note asking
that the books be put away and the
classes dismissed in order that the boys
might get out in the country and learn
something.
Man needs to return to nature fire.
quently if he would grow. We are an
Antaean race; our strength comes from
mother earth and we must remain in
close communion with her simple rest
full forms If we would retain our vfgor
and freshness. Everything, from
kings to cabbages. needs root in the
soil somewhere" Getting out in the
country is not a fad or a sentiment. 1t
is the resurrection and surge Of the
virile. elemental qualities within us.
Obey the CALL
A WORTH WHILE EXAMPLE.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.]
Something out of the ordinary in
landscape gardening is being done in
town, for two of our townspeople. The
residence property of Dr. Wells Dewell
and that OF A. ]. Coe are both in the
hands of a Council Bluffs landscaper,
who is working out a blue print plan
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each case the plans call for elaborate
work. Rare specimens of foliage and
Towering plants. hundreds of them.
the arrangement Of which, as well as
the varieties very largely. have been
left to the man in charge who makes
the work life study. This is certain
ly a piece Of work to be commended
on the part Of Messrs. Dewell and Coe.
While they are doing it because they
want it, with home thought of first. yet
the town in way will benefit by it
also, as step in civic Improvement
Woodbine TWiner.
The above paragraph contains
suggestion worth passing along.
The work these two Woodbine cih-
zens are doing viii be "a thing Of
beauty and joy forever" not only for
themselves and their families. but for
the whole community and thousands
of travellers who chance to pass that
way.
Some time In the near future some
community in Iowa is going TO create
a civic betterment organization with
vision and an influence of sufficient
force to impel the entire citizenship Of
the place to do for the town or city
just what these men are doing for their
own premises.
Why should not a complete survey
be made of the whole city of Woodbine
and blue prints made for every resi-
dence and every place Of business as
they are being made now for two citi-
zens? The work OF identifying could
not of course, be done all in one year.
But If every resident began working
toward a common ideal with definite
plan before him the net result in five
years would be city beautiful almost
beyond the dreams of old inhabitants
These things are worth thinking
about. Some day they will come true.
And then people will look back with
sym pathy and commiseration upon the
vagrant photographs of manure heaps
and piles of tin cans which numbered
the hooks and crannies of most towns
in the first decades Of the twentieth
century and will wonder why these