ON LEAVING HOMELeaving home does not bother me a bit when it is anything over one week away. I can go gladly, even joyously, with all my hopes ahead. I am sure it is the best thing to do, to move about, see new places, new faces, gather impressions. Anyone who writes must do this to keep a new, fresh outlook. Yes indeed, it is the progressive, adventurous attitude which counts ... no wonder the Eastern provinces and states found their national life thinned and impoverished when the great drift of population began to the West. Anna Howard Shaw reviled the East in one of her addresses, for their hidebound prejudices, by saying that "the cream of the population had gone out to seek other homes, leaving the skim-milk, blue and thin."
I am full of this great spirit of adventure until a few day
