For years, just _half
your time and strength has been thrown away using old methods and
implements in your work, and having the kitchen unhandy and inconvenient;
and I'm the man who should have seen it, and got you right tools for your
job at the same time I bought a houseful for myself and my work_. We must
stir up this whole neighbourhood, and build a big entertainment house,
where we can have a library suitable for country folks, and satisfying to
their ways of life. It's got to have music boxes in it, and a floor fit
for dancing and skating, and a stage for our own entertainments, and the
folks we decide to bring here to amuse us. We can put in a picture machine
and a screen, that we can pay for by charging a few cents admission the
nights we run it, and rent films once or twice a week from a good city
show. We could fix up a place like that, and get no end of fun and
education out of it, without going thirty miles and spending enough money
in one night to get better entertainment for a month at home, and in a
cool, comfortable hall, and where we can go from it to bed in a few
minutes.
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