Country Life
MORE LIGHT An old country labourer in the Midlands said to me many years ago that life was all " working and sleeping." He got up sooner than it was light in the winter and almost as soon in the summer. He went to bed soon after it was dark in winter and almost as soon in summer.. What he chiefly suffered from was want of light. Even with a good oil lamp it is extremely difficult in an old-fashioned cottage with indifferent furniture for any member of the household to read. It is for this reason that the provision of electricity throughout the country places has in it the possibility of a new life for the rural worker. Unfortunately this hope is not being generally fulfilled, if a number of particular instances within my experience may be taken as typical.
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