160 OVER ON THE ISLAND This district is entirely agricultural, unlike Belle River , and includes seven families. We drove into a fine-looking farm house to gather what information we could about this community. Plump chickens were roaming around the yard. Everybody looked con¬ tented. They seemed amused at our interest in their community. They answered our questions with a sly smile, and we wondered whether we were getting the truth or not. Intermarriage, we found, was still too prevalent. As for education, one farmer expressed himself forcibly on that point. "Education! There's too much education in the world. That's what's wrong with it." Yet another asserted that if a member wanted to be a teacher or a doctor, they would pay his way through the course. I wonder if they really would. A medical course, for instance, is an expensive one, and the company still has not an abundance of money. Perhaps, they get around such difficulties by dis¬ couraging higher education. None, apparently, had ever yearned to attend the universities, for none had. Farther on lies Ruskin . I wonder what that great apostle of art would say if he could see his family name representing a district on Prince Edward Island . The place, however, is not named after the famous writer; it is named after John Ruskin , an early settler. Even so, if the great critic ever spied his name on this map, I am sure he would put one thumb in his waist¬ coat, and assuming the attitude typical of a lecturer, he would begin an address to his dear unknown friends: Wherever art is practised for its own sake, and the delight of the workmen is in what he does and produces, instead of in what he interprets or exhibits—there art