The Cordova Daily Times

BOSTON GIVES US A NEW SENSATION

Versed in forest lore and determined to prove that the primitive species has nothing on the modern flapper and her male companion, we hear that a young Boston couple propose to make a dash into the woods of Maine without food or clothing and there dwell for a period of six weeks, wresting their sustenance from Mother Earth. Boston has given to the world many a thrill from the day of the famous tea party to this year of our Lord, but this latest demonstration of the unique caps the climax. Still, the experiment may not be without its value. If the young couple—the young wife is twenty-three and her husband twenty-seven—manage to get along in their battle with nature, it may bring them a greater spirit of contentment, in that it may teach them how little they really need in this world, and make them more pliable to the exactions of the shoe trust, which has pinched the toes of New England and the pocketbooks of the whole nation for a good many years. The spot chosen for the experiment is one uninhabited by man, though reports have it as infested with wild beasts, and of course by the terrifying mosquito, which may prove the greatest obstacle to overcome. When all is said and done, however, it would be more important if some one could demonstrate how a young couple can live in civilized surroundings on a modest wage and raise a healthy American family without turning the young wife into a drudge and the young husband into a slavish sycophant, lashed into obedience and sapped of all initiative because of dread of the future and the possible loss of a job.