or a lively spin away to the woods. This gives them an opportunity to
enjoy the pure air and bright sunshine, the wide, undulating landscape,
tinted by the exquisite coloring of every flowering plant, shrub and
tree. How delightful to them, is the restful green of dewy meadows; the
sweet music of birds, the charming chatter and playful antics, of the
swift-footed squirrels! How grateful, the leafy coolness and bracing
ozone of the forest; the dancing shadows of its deep glens, with their
garnered treasures of mosses and ferns! How inspiring, the merry tinkle
of the clear streamlet, swiftly flowing over its rocky bed; or the
louder roar of the rushing waterfall, where drooping boughs glisten and
sparkle with spray-laden foliage! All these, are nature's matchless
charms, which appeal to our young mothers in their best moments, their
most responsive moods; banishing all thoughts of evil, awakening in
their hearts, new spiritual impulses, feelings of worshipful adoration;
emotions of the highest and purest order. Than this, nothing could prove
more helpful in maintaining perfect conditions of mental and spiritual
serenity.

"Inhaling the pure, invigorating air of the country, far from the dust
and filth, the smoke and poisonous gases, the turmoil and strife, the
ceaseless din, the selfishness and sin of the great city, close to the
fostering bosom of mother earth, under a broad dome of blue sky, bathed
in floods of golden sunlight, exulting in the exuberance of perfect
health, these grateful young mothers, realize how much they owe to the
co-operative farm movement, for surrounding them with such ideal
conditions of life.

"They realize, the great, good fortune of children, who are born and
reared in the midst of such delightful environments. They perceive, with
a keen sense of sorrow, that children who are born and bred away from
these rural conditions, are robbed of more than one-half their natural
rights. They realize, more than ever before, the filth, the misery, the
squalor, the fetid air, and the unsanitary conditions, of our great
cities. They shudder, when they contemplate, the bitterness of the
misfortune, the cruelty of the deprivation, of the great mass of
children, who must be born and bred in the midst of such depressing,
unhealthy surroundings. They know intuitively, that only a puny, sickly,
half-developed race of people, can come from such a sad birth. Under
such circumstances, they do not wonder, that full