128 HOW TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY 



America. Then I would let the careful planting 

 extend down to the ditch that flanks the roadside. 

 All of America will some day become one vast gar- 

 den home, and the roadways, most beautiful of all, 

 will bind us together in one great family. 



After all, the most important part of our lawns 

 is the drives. These should be liberal, even for a 

 very inexpensive residence. Remember that our 

 lives, if rightly lived in the country, are not indoor 

 affairs. Run drives with welcoming breadth to the 

 street and let them lead invitingly about the house 

 and lawns and then to the barns and gardens. You 

 will then be sure that your barns are clean and their 

 surroundings pleasant. 



I like also to have a liberal measure of home ex- 

 ercise. There is no good reason for living right by 

 the street, and with that have a habit of going away 

 from home for a walk. Our drives should consti- 

 tute a most delightful promenade. 



Above all, do not form a habit of hailing a trolley 

 car and never walking at all. Walk, man alive ! 

 And, my dear lady, walk! It is the finest way of 

 bringing out all your physical powers and stimulating 

 your intellectual forces. Shrubberies and lawns 

 should be used; and this is just what they were made 

 for to give you health and wholesomeness a 

 home life, broad and sweet and wholth-ful (health- 

 ful). 



