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To purchase anything for merely outside show, or to excite the envy or jealousy of a neighbor, was never thought of by an inhabitant of Mizora. The houses that were built to rent excited my admiration quite as much as did the private residences. They all seemed to have been designed with two special objects in view beauty and comfort.
Their smiles and prattle and baby wishes are listened to with loving tenderness, and treated as matters of importance. I was sitting beside a Mizora mother one evening, listening to some singing that I truly thought no earthly melody could surpass. I asked the lady if ever she had heard anything sweeter, and she answered, earnestly: "Yes, the voices of my own children."
"The electricity that we use for heat is also a source of danger during a storm. Our policy is to evade a peril we cannot control or destroy. Hence, when we receive a signal that a storm is approaching we get out of its way. Our railroad carriages, having no danger to fear from them, ride right through the storm." The people of Mizora, I perceived, possessed a remarkable acuteness of vision.
Prejudice, however deeply ingrained, could not resist the custom of a whole country, and especially such a one as Mizora, so I soon found myself on a familiar footing with my friend's "artist" for the name by which they were designated as a class had very nearly the same meaning. Cooking was an art, and one which the people of Mizora had cultivated to the highest excellence.
In my own country the government and the aristocracy were identical. The government offices and emoluments were the highest pinnacles of ambition. I mentioned the disparity of opinion between Mizora and all other countries I had known in regard to this. I could not understand why politics in Mizora should be of so small importance.
The usual and marketable size of a bunch was from one to two pounds weight. The fruit was always perfect that was offered for sale. Science had provided the fruit growers of Mizora with permanent protections from all kinds of blight or decay. When I considered the wholesomeness of all kinds of food prepared for the inhabitants of this favored land.
A look of disgust crossed the countenance of my companion. "Do you not drink this?" I asked in surprise, as I set down the empty vessel. "It is truly delicious." "At regular meal times we all use it, and sometimes drink it in preference to other beverages but never in public. You will never see a citizen of Mizora eating in public.
I attended a number of operas that were only the reflex of others that were being presented to audiences far distant. These repetitions were always marvels of accuracy of vividness. Small reflecting apparatus were to be found in every dwelling and business house. It is hardly necessary to state that letter-writing was an unknown accomplishment in Mizora.
Where mind is the sole aristocracy it makes demands as rigid, though different, and mind was the aristocracy of Mizora. With them education is never at an end. I spoke of having graduated at a renowned school for young ladies, and when I explained that to graduate meant to finish one's education, it elicited a peal of silvery mirth. "We never graduate," said Wauna.
Every engineer had an electric signal attached to the engine, that could signal a train three miles distant. The motive power for nearly all engines was compressed air. Electricity, which was recognized by Mizora scientists as a force of great intensity, was rarely used as a propelling power on railroads. Its use was attended by possible danger, but compressed air was not.
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