Back to Nature (1911)

After extracting the best that was in him in the course of twenty years service with them the Peoples Insurance Company discharges Joe Jackson a faithful bookkeeper So at middle life Joe finds the sumtotal of a city career a nervous wife a drooping infant and a grownup son and daughter whom the city has converted into shallow idle selfish creatures His own gains are a bank account that wouldnt stand the strain of city rentpaying and city living while he was hunting for a job so Joe concluded to get back to nature He bought a farm with his savings and transported himself there with his family much against the wishes of two members thereof the indolent son and daughter of course