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Updated: June 22, 2025
In spleenful moments, it seems to me that the most depraved of city-dwellers has flashes of enthusiasm and self-abnegation never experienced by this shifty, retrogressive and ungenerous brood, which lives like the beasts of the field and has learnt all too much of their logic. But they have a beast-virtue hereabouts which compels respect contentment in adversity.
Jam is of great importance in Europe to-day and all the Governments have taken steps to keep up the supply. It is a regular part of the English army ration. To Keep the Nation Well. An increase in the use of vegetables and fruits is practically sure to mean an increase in health. Many of us, especially city-dwellers, do not eat enough of them.
They must also learn to face their disadvantages and to work intelligently toward overcoming them. The country homemaker has no immediate need of studying the problems of congestion in population which menace the millions of city-dwellers. The country home has plenty of room and an abundance of pure air.
Like a prophet he gazes on the sky, where in the clouds there are many signs that the hunter’s eye can see; or like an enchanter he talks with the earth, which, though deaf to city-dwellers, whispers into his ear with a multitude of voices.
Not only this, but those races among us which have been continuous city-dwellers for a score of generations past have acquired a still higher degree of immunity. In every civilized land the percentage of deaths from tuberculosis among the Jews, who, from racial and religious prejudices, have been prisoners of the Ghetto for centuries, is about half to one-third that of their Gentile neighbors.
The little unknown people who inhabited the Reeves Building corridors elevator-runners, starter, engineers, superintendent, and the doubtful-looking lame man who conducted the news and cigar stand were in no way city-dwellers. They were rustics, living in a constricted valley, interested only in one another and in The Building.
In speech she had to walk very carefully. Her mystic baffled her. "Nothing," Michael said. "Isn't it sad to think what city-dwellers miss?" "I love even the roar of the camels, don't you?" Her eyes were looking at the animals, as they knelt at rest in the distance, their long day's journey done. What stored-up revenge their roars suggest!
Judith was fired contagiously with the spirit about her, set her teeth, thrust out her elbows, shoved, pushed, grunted, fought, all with a fresh zest in the performance which gave her an immense advantage over the fatigued city-dwellers, who assaulted their fellow-citizens with only a preoccupied desire for an approach to a breathing space, and, that attained, subsided into lurching, strap-hanging quiescence.
Being artisans and city-dwellers they were unable to endure the rough agricultural labors in the bleak north. Cold, floods, grasshoppers, and uncongenial neighbors rendered the location unpleasant. Travellers from the south brought news of a better locality, and towards this place there soon began a movement which, while not great in any one year, was long continued.
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