Country and City 81 



The country home. 



The farm home is the most direct and simple 

 home ; it is least disturbed by passing moods ; 

 it is nearest nature. It is important to the 

 nation that it be preserved ; but it is also im- 

 portant that it be improved. 



The first thing I would now do for the farm 

 home is to put in sanitary water-works, for the 

 care and comfort of the person. Nothing 

 would so soon elevate the home ideals. 



Then I should try to reorganize the woman's 

 work, as much as the man's work has been re- 

 organized in the barns and on the fields. 



Next, I should revamp the lay-out of the 

 home grounds, to make them convenient, neat, 

 attractive, even artistic. 



Then I should want to consider the reading, 

 not too many newspapers, but books and 

 bulletins and some magazines, the reading of 

 which would increase knowledge and direct the 

 development of good taste. 



Millinery architecture. 



Then I should improve the architecture. 



