Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1885 — City Life. [ARTICLE]

City Life.

We are forced, for the sake of accumulating power and knowledge, to live in cities; but such advantages as we have in association with each other is in great part conntertmlanced by our loss of fellowship with nature. For surely we know that the meadow grass, meshed with fairy rings, is better than the wood pavement cut into hexagqns; and surely we know tbe fresh winds and sunshines of the upland are better than the choke-damp of the vault or the gaslight of the ballroom.— Buskin.