Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1913 — TO NATURE FOR REAL REST [ARTICLE]

TO NATURE FOR REAL REST

• Excellent Advice Couched in Language * That Savors of the Fancy of the 'True Poet ■ ■ ----- Tired, are you? Want a recipe for real jreatJ Well, here’s one, recommended by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay —he’s a poet, but don’t hold that against him —in Ferm and Fireside: “You to whom the universe has become a blast furnace, a coke oven, a cinder-strewn freight yard, to whom the history of all ages la a tragedy with the climax •now to whom our democracy and our flag are but playthings of the hypocrite, turn to the soil, turn to the earth, your mother, and she will comfort yott. Rest, be it ever so little, from your black broodIngs. Think with the farmer once more, as your fathers did. Revere with the farmer our centuries-old rural civilization, however little it meets the city's trouble. Revere the rural customs that have their roots in the immemorial benefits ot nature. “There is perpetual balm in Gilead, and many city workmen shall turn to it and be healed. This by faith, and a study of the signs, we proclaim!”— Detroit Free Press.