THE VILLAGE LIFE.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXIII, 8 December 1920, Page 4

THE VILLAGE LIFE.

Perhaps the most beautiful thing ever written on "The Village Life came from the pen of Henry George. Listen to him: — "And there are house warming*, and quilting parties, and apple parjugs. In the House of Death there ithe watcher, and by the open gt'■ stands human sympathy to sustain the mourner. Though the ballroom be uuplastered and the orchestra but a fiddle, yet the notes of the magician are in the strain, and Cupid dan with the dancers! Mow and then cometa straggling lecturer to open up he realms of Art, of Science, and of Literature. In election time, the c.m zen rises to a sense of dignity a ■‘ ' Cause of .Empires is tried before in the struggle of John Doc v. J* • ■ Koe for his support and vote. J. ’! then comes the Circus, talked -t months before, opening to child--.', whose whole horizon has been ticprairies, all the boundless realm ot the imagination. Princes and Pun cesses of Fairy Lore; mail-clad sutlers; Cinderella’s Fairy Slipper :.od the Magic Coach; lions such as crouched before Daniel, or such c in circling amphitheatre tore the Saints of God; elephants that crossed the Alps with Hannibal, or such as felt tin : words of the Maccabees; camels tin stretch forth their long necks, an.l recall life sandy desert, or such as stood round when the wicked broth ren raised Joseph from the well. And glorious music, that rises, and builds and thrills in the mind, as rose the sunny domes of Kubla Khan!"