Opportunities for Culture

Excerpt from Opportunities for Culture

"There is no opportunity for Fred and myself. No matter how earnestly we desire culture, it is simply beyond us. We are fixed in a monotonous round of duties, and tied to that poky little town, which is a thousand times worse than Hamlin Garland's bleak western prairies."

I turned to look at the fair speaker whose fragment of conversation had come to me through the rumble and noise of the suburban train rushing into the city. At that moment the brakeman called Central Station, and I lost sight of the young woman and her companion as they pushed their way into the hurrying throng. Her words, however, would not leave me. I knew her view was all wrong, but the truth lay in the fact that this was not an isolated case. The young woman had unconsciously voiced the sentiment of a host of young people, who, desiring culture, feel that it is hopelessly beyond their reach. "Fixed in a monotonous round," the very words seem fatal to the advancement of self and to the higher enjoyment of life.

What is this desirable attainment called culture, whose price is above rubies? and where is it to be found?

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