Out-of-Doors

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 2, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 30.

"Out-of-Doors, or the Open-Air Spirit in Relation to Modern Life." Price 60 cents. By M. Ellsworth Olsen, Ph.D., with an introduction by Jacob Riis. Pacific Press Publishing Association, Mountain View, Cal.

This beautifully bound little volume with its illuminated cover page, inviting out into the mountains and woods, is packed full of inspiration, of the blessings of out-of-doors, out away from the murk and cark and care of the city, out from the busy, bustling rooms of commerce, out of legislative halls, stuffy offices, dingy workshops, gloomy houses, out into the great open, expansive "out-of-doors." It is to this that the little book invites us. It states what we all know,—that one of the great evils of the present life physically and mentally is "too much house;" too much of indoors, too little fresh air, too little sunshine, and outside the walls which encompass the great part of mankind there is an abundance of life and health and joy awaiting every soul who will drink it in. The book is dedicated to Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The chapter divisions indicate somewhat of the scope of the work: A Sedentary Race, Problem of the Children, The Young Man's Needs, Beauty Culture Out-of-Doors, More Fresh Air and Less Furniture, "Too Much House," Higher Ministry of Field and Wood, Around the Camp-Fire, "The Long Brown Path," Back to Nature and the Soil. It is a splendid little gift book for the weary, languid young man, or the pale, emaciated girl to read and put in practise. In fact it is good for every one.