A LITTLE LAND 

 AND A LIVING 



to obstruct ventilation or to keep clean, no par- 

 lor or reception hall, one-story kitchen 12 x 14, 

 cellar underneath to keep coal and supplies, hot 

 and cold water, range, sink, etc. 



" I cut off eight feet of the piazza for a room. 

 I sleep in it with open windows; temperature 

 about the same as outdoors and this is the first 

 winter in thirty-eight years that I have escaped 

 quinsy and tonsilitis. 



" Life in a bungalow means more than simple 

 living. It means free and easy fresh air; 

 family not too close together; (for our bunga- 

 low gives more space than a two- family house) , 

 one's own garden, poultry, dogs, and horse; 

 fields, flowers, woodland, and stream for the chil- 

 dren; the robin, blue jay, black bird, and thrush, 

 for constant companions. Fun is expensive, but 

 pleasure does not cost a cent. 



" One of the chief advantages of getting into 

 a new community is that one thus finds his op- 

 portunity for improving conditions, shaping bet- 

 ter tax laws, securing good roads, up-to-date 

 facilities, free schools, lectures, entertainments, 

 etc., all of which add to the charms of country 



