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but I have said enough of this under the discussion 

 of shops. 



Exactly what is to come out of the telephone, 

 trolley, and mail delivery is not by any means yet 

 evident. The telephone is already connecting us 

 with the market, so as to free us from the wiles of 

 speculators. My customers can call on me any day 

 for fruit. If I wish for a teamster I am sure that 

 O'Brien has a telephone in his house. 



As for the trolley, it is now hauling long lines of 

 Ohio wagons, geared to the track and loaded with 

 produce, into the market cities. The carrier will 

 soon go by automobile through his district, not only 

 with letters and papers, but with parcels. Nor can 

 my distaste for this dust-raising vehicle shut my eyes 

 to the fact that it belongs essentially to the country. 

 The railroad car must follow tracks from town to 

 town, but the automobile with its gasoline power or 

 electricity goes where it pleases regardless of the 

 city. 



In some ways the new country home will be no 

 more interesting than the old time house, but it will 

 always have a bathroom, more surely than it will have 

 a library, and it will have wider verandas, with a 

 distinct understanding that the first aim of the house- 

 hold is to secure health. We shall live out of doors 

 and we shall know how to gather about us more 

 liberally what Nature and Art offer to make life sweet 

 and wholesome. 



The new country life will expect the home maker 



