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THE HOME BEAUTIFUL 



THE palatial home, with its elaborately planned 

 grounds ; the work of an expensive landscape archi- 

 tect and his assistants a combination of wealth 

 and professional skill have provided wonderful, 

 enthralling views and beautiful vistas, almost with- 

 out number. They are always a delight to our 

 eye, and presumably the pride of the owners. 



Nevertheless, the humble cottage with its little 

 lawn, and a modest setting of trees, shrubs and 

 beautiful flowers may also be a Home Beautiful. 



Indeed we do not think that the man who lives 

 in the palace begins to reap anything like the 

 pleasure and the satisfaction from his home sur- 

 roundings, as compared with the more humble man 

 who occupies the cottage and whose delight it is 

 to himself improve and beautify his> grounds with 

 his own hands, aided by the blending of that artis- 

 tic temperament that is, in some degree at least, 

 within each of us who love flowers and the great 

 outdoors, together with the use of a modicum of 

 common sense and good jud'gment, coupled with 

 such theoretic knowledge as may be gleaned from 

 the reading of good books and papers on the sub- 

 ject, as well as by the use of the faculties of 

 observation. 



