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that sort of a home that appropriately accompanies 

 a diet of canned vegetables, fruit, milk and meat. The 

 labor is the loving, enthusiastic and interesting labor 

 of the whole family in spare hours, with its grateful 

 expression of individual initiative, and its valuable les- 

 sons in efficiency and self-reliance. These things rep- 

 resent long steps toward genuine freedom. 



Stress is laid on a "comfortable sufficiency." It is 

 of the essence of the new way of life. I am not talk- 

 ing of your old-fashioned farm, any more than I am 

 talking of your cell in the apartment house. I am 

 talking of the home-in-a-garden brought to its best 

 efficiency and highest refinement. I am talking of a 

 new type of man, a new element of our citizenship. 

 We need a new term to describe him this "country- 

 minded" man loving the city and attached to its pay- 

 roll, yet yearning for the rural savor in his daily life, 

 and the opportunity of individual expression in health- 

 ful labor as much as "David Grayson" ; as much as the 

 New York business man we read of in earlier pages. 

 What shall we call him? 



The Homelander! 



The man with a little home of his own on the land, 

 where he may work lovingly for himself without a wage, 

 yet for a higher compensation than he gets in town; 

 and where, in the course of the patient years, he may 

 rear a holy temple for his wife and babies, from which 

 no landlord may turn him out. 



That is the Homelander ! 



Every feature of his life has been demonstrated, and 

 is now in successful operation. True, not all of it 

 has been demonstrated in one garden city exclusively 

 dedicated to the cause; still less in a thousand garden 



