“I ride on the mountain tops, I ride, I have found my life and am satisfied!” Of course this out-in-the-country life for city children can only be gained if their parents and our educators and politicians combine to provide it. And in some way it ought to be done. What a joy it would be to many a city boy to be allowed to go and do some work in the country during certain times in the year! Those who have seen the city children who are taken yearly into the country by Fresh Air Funds, or out by vessel into the Bay of New York or Boston Harbor, by philanthropic people, know what delight, joy, and health they receive from the outing. These things all point to the great, the dire, the awful need there is for some way of giving to our city children and men and women more out-door life. Just after the San Francisco earthquake, Dr. J. H. Kellogg, editor of _Good Health_, wrote in his forceful way of some lessons the people might learn from that disaster. Here is one of them bearing upon this very question: [Illustration: MONO INDIAN COOKING CORN MUSH IN A BASKET BY A CAMP FIRE.] “Three hundred thousand people have found out that they can live out of doors, and that out of doors is a safer place than indoors. “People who have all their lives slept on beds of down, protected by thick walls of brick or stone, barricaded against the dangerous (?) air of night, have found that it is possible to spend a night upon an unsheltered hillside without risk to life, and it is more than likely that, as in the case of the Charleston earthquake, not a few modern troglodytes, who scarcely ever saw the light of day before, have been actually benefited by being forced out into the fresh air and the sunshine.