FIRST STEPS TOWARD THE HOME 55 



your planning so that you yourself see not a pretty 

 thing here and something else there that is agreeable, 

 but a fellowship of all fine things, cooperating to 

 create your home. 



You will notice, if you consider, as you drive by 

 most of our country homes, that there is no such 

 community of purpose. The houses have been 

 dropped down in a conventional way and about the 

 same distance from the street; then when the owners 

 get hold of a tree or a bush they stick it in anywhere, 

 wherever there is room; the flowers are planted just 

 where the lawn ought to be ; until in the course of a 

 few years the place is a mere jumble of good and 

 bad things, without the least relation to each other. 

 Every man's property should be thought out, and 

 that means a thought-full affair. Go over your plan 

 on paper repeatedly, until you are satisfied that every- 

 thing is placed thoughtfully ; then every planting will 

 be done reasonably. 



