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She was rather more interested in her day's work than are the average of meaningless humanity who sell gingham and teach algebra and cure boils and repair lawn-mowers, because she was daily more able to approximate perfection, to look forward to something better to some splendid position at twenty or even twenty-five dollars a week.
Children are learning to appreciate it in the surroundings of the schoolhouse and the tasteful decorations of its interior; their elders are buying lawn-mowers and painting their fences, and America may yet rival in attractiveness the fair countryside of old England. 152. =Is the Town Healthier than the Country?= It has been commonly believed that country people are healthier than townspeople.
Others contained rolls of wall-paper, ironmongery, photographic materials, drugs with the properties and uses of which he was unacquainted lawn-mowers, garden rollers, and other matters that did not appeal to him; and these he sent over the side to keep the bird-cages company.
It was Tom's hobby, and he delighted in nothing so much as tinkering with machines, from lawn-mowers to steam engines. Tom took hold of the handle, which Eradicate gladly relinquished to him, and his trained touch told him at once what was the trouble. "Some one has had the wheels off and put them on wrong, Rad," he said. "The ratchet and pawl are reversed.
However intimate they might be with T. Cholmondeley Frink as a neighbor, as a borrower of lawn-mowers and monkey-wrenches, they knew that he was also a Famous Poet and a distinguished advertising-agent; that behind his easiness were sultry literary mysteries which they could not penetrate.
He rose unsteadily, and saluted the Governor with a nod. "Good-morning, sir," he said, "and thank you." "Wait," Sir Charles commanded. A new form of punishment had suggested itself, in which justice was tempered with mercy. "Can you work one of your American lawn-mowers?" he asked. The young man laughed delightedly. "I never tried," he said, "but I've seen it done."
The next day was one of those beautiful mild days that would seem to belong rather to summer than to autumn. The windows all over the school were wide open; the sound of lawn-mowers could be heard in the distance; the drowsy warmth of the air made the girls think of Commencement time.
Locusts, serenaders of the heat, invisible among the branches, rasped their interminable cadences, competing bitterly with the monotonous chattering of lawn-mowers propelled by glistening black men over the level swards beneath.
"Yes, my good sir," he was saying in his high-pitched, emphatic utterance, "this dear old churchyard is never mowed except by living lawn-mowers. I assure you that I have seen thirty heads of cattle upon the vaults positively, thirty heads, sir!" But the boy's thoughts were far from the church and its rector, and the words sifted rapidly through his brain.
Does not one see them see them everywhere one's own flesh and blood, going about like stone-crushers, road-rollers, lifts, lawn-mowers? Between the morbidly mechanical people and the morbidly unmechanical people, modern civilization hangs in the balance.
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