WALKS AND DRIVES 45 



line, which bears off from the street at the point where the mind 

 and the feet naturally turn towards the house entrance, leading 

 to that entrance irresistibly yet not violently. 



The tired individual, sauntering homeward, will very rarely 

 indeed I doubt if he will ever find it the natural thing to walk 

 to a point directly opposite the house door, turn a right-about- 

 face, and walk in, in a beeline, and up his front steps. And it 

 is not fatigue, as a matter of fact, that makes the idea of doing 

 this irritating. It is the lack of actual directness, and the 

 violent interruption in the force which is impelling him forward, 

 which his feet and his subconscious mind are aware of, even 

 though his active consciousness may not be. 



The small suburban place, with its restricted area, offers 

 possibly the most difficult problem of all, in this as in other 

 respects. Its limitations are decided, and conventional ugliness 

 has long been accepted as the proper thing indeed, the only 

 thing. In fact the small suburban place, commoner than any 

 other kind of place in the land, is the one thing which we go on 

 uglifying year in and year out, in Simian imitation each of the 

 other. There is almost never an attempt to break away from 

 the commonplace treatment that makes all such places ordinary 

 and uninteresting. 



Once in awhile, however, something is done which gives a hint 

 of the possibilities of even such places as these. And on the 

 next page is a little diagram showing a departure from the 

 tiresome old ways, which illustrates some of the things I have been 

 saying. The arrangement of the entrances is of course the 

 feature which makes this place so different from all others. 

 But it is worth while to note that, by planning these as they are, 

 the whole place is vastly improved and much space saved. It 

 is therefore an excellent example of good landscape gardening. 



