If we felt it well to teach one of them that water was wet, we did not subject his young mind to a nine months course of lectures by a Professor on Hydropathy, but took him out and dropped him in the duck-pond and let him draw his own conclusions; and when it came to Botany, we found that either one of them could get a more comprehensive idea of the habits of growing plants from weeding a ten-acre lot than he could get out of a four years' course at a Correspondence School.

The result was that when he came to graduate and go out into the world he was ready for business, and didn't have to serve as an Office-Boy on a salary of nothing a week for seventy-five or a hundred years before he was able to earn his own living." It surely was an idyllic picture that the dear old lady drew, and I have often wished myself amid the rush and roar of modern life, that we might go back to the simpler methods of those Arcadian days.
On the subject of dress, Eve was entirely out of accord with her husband.

She viewed Adam's theories on that subject with toleration, however, and always laughed when they were mentioned.
"He's just like a man," she smiled.

"He really has no objection to fetching costumes when they are worn by other people.

He merely does not wish to be bothered with such things himself.