CHAPTER III. 



WHAT KIND OF HOME GROUNDS WILL BEST SUIT BUSINESS MEN, 

 AND THEIR COST. 



" Nature is immovable and yet mobile ; that is her eternal charm. Her unwearied activity, 

 her ever-shifting phantasmagoria, do not weary, do not disturb ; this harmonious motion bears in 

 itself a profound repose." MADAME MICHELET. 



I 



T is always a difficult matter to keep the happy medium be- 

 tween extravagance and parsimony. This uncertainty will 

 be felt by every business man of moderate means who begins 



