“Is Our Life Artificial?"
“The picture on this page of the singing bird and the jazz-playing radio is intended to remind us that we should have everything new, up-to-date, interesting and instructive WITHOUT becoming too artificial.
Many of us in big cities keep as far away from nature as the prisoner in his Sing Sing cell.
The sun rises and sets and we don’t SEE it.
If we happen to look up through the tall buildings and see something bright in the sky, we take it for granted that it is an electric light, although it may be the moon.
We know birds only after they have been picked and with their heads cut off are put on the table to be eaten. Many of us know no bird at all except a roasted, broiled or fried chicken.
Have your radio. Encourage the children to understand and delight in it. Tune in on whatever interests you. but always remember that the really big thing is the gigantic earth under our feet with its clouds, mountains, lakes, oceans, rivers, birds, trees, flowers and sunshine.
Get out of the city and into the country whenever you can. Get as far into the country as you can.
Get your mind thinking in new directions by change of scene and change of interest.
KEEP OUT OF MENTAL RUTS. Even with radio, talking machine, telephone, running water, porcelain baths, swift elevators and all the rest, one MAY be in a rut absolutely.
One small bird singing, to tell the world that it is happy, may do more to stir up useful thought than a crowd of 10,000 roaring in honor of a home run."
[Daily Mirror, July 25, 1924, editorial. “Motto: Short, Accurate, Amusing.”]
Many of us in big cities keep as far away from nature as the prisoner in his Sing Sing cell.
The sun rises and sets and we don’t SEE it.
If we happen to look up through the tall buildings and see something bright in the sky, we take it for granted that it is an electric light, although it may be the moon.
We know birds only after they have been picked and with their heads cut off are put on the table to be eaten. Many of us know no bird at all except a roasted, broiled or fried chicken.
Have your radio. Encourage the children to understand and delight in it. Tune in on whatever interests you. but always remember that the really big thing is the gigantic earth under our feet with its clouds, mountains, lakes, oceans, rivers, birds, trees, flowers and sunshine.
Get out of the city and into the country whenever you can. Get as far into the country as you can.
Get your mind thinking in new directions by change of scene and change of interest.
KEEP OUT OF MENTAL RUTS. Even with radio, talking machine, telephone, running water, porcelain baths, swift elevators and all the rest, one MAY be in a rut absolutely.
One small bird singing, to tell the world that it is happy, may do more to stir up useful thought than a crowd of 10,000 roaring in honor of a home run."
[Daily Mirror, July 25, 1924, editorial. “Motto: Short, Accurate, Amusing.”]
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