In choosing his scenes, the producer of the Thanhouser Company shows a quick appreciation of the truly poetic. The truth of his dooryard scene in this picture, the chickens, nanny goat and particularly the line of burdock leaves, catches a homely beauty that goes straight home to the heart. The picture is really more the poetic day-dream of some overworked bookkeeper than a truthful picture of life; yet it so truthfully pictures a human heart's longing that it gets over effectively. Indeed, this reviewer will be much mistaken if many, many city people who see the picture won't sincerely thank the Thanhouser Company for it. It is supposed to be an elderly clerk who is discharged to make room for a younger man who takes his family, whom the city is not using well, to a farm in the country, where he and the whole family make good and find friends and happiness. The acting of all hands is good. In the early scenes little Marie Eline, as the sick child, was unable to repress her vitality, signs of which peeped through her acting again and again. - The Moving Picture World, August 19, 1911
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