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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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to the artificial-ity of display. The violet goes, and thelotus pond comes in; and there is no-where a smell of the wild mint left.What I shall hold myself to strictly is helping the men of moderate means,who intend to live wider and warmerand think nobler and develop both foodand character by intimacy with Nature.I have a warm feeling for those whoare tired of city life or town life, anddesire to react from artificiality. In 1890 the census told us that thecities were receiving over sixty-six percent of the increase of population, al-though I believe the tide was even thenslowly turning. In 1900 it was foundthat only a little over thirty per centof the annual increase dropped into citycongestion—notwithstanding the enor-mous increase of immigration. Thiswas a splendid showing for the countryand country life, and we are happy toknow that the ratio has been steadilyincreasing ever since. At present thereis not much over twenty per cent of thepeople lost to the hills and valleys. 677
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SEE IF YOU CANNOT GET BEHIND A NICE BIT OF FOREST, WOODLAND. OR AT LEAST A LINE OF This, of course, does not mean thatthe cities are decreasing in size; onlythat their ratio of growth, with thesingle exception of New York City, isgrowing less. It means that countrylife has at last attractions that counter-balance the attractions of the town.The country telephone, rural free maildelivery, and the trolley are a triple al-liance to make the home in the remoteglen or the farm on the mountainsidehardly more isolated than the apartmentin a city flat. Neighbors are joined to-gether so that they can converse freelyand cooperate more easily. The trol-ley is even hauling farmers wagonsto market; hacking up to the barndoors and taking long trains of grainas well as passengers. The automobileis going further, although for the pres-ent it has not outgrown its aristocraticyouth. Any town with half a dozen ofthese motors is quite as independent asa town on a railroad line served oncea day by a freig

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