FOREWORD 9 



towns, for the acquaintances made by your children in the former 

 will be more permanent and have a larger bearing on their future be- 

 cause they are more intimately brought together in their school, their 

 play and their daily association. 



Suburban public schools are governed to a great extent by men 

 who have come out from the cities. Their advantages are equal to 

 those of the city, perhaps superior, because the classes average smaller; 

 high schools abound, and the education of the youth up to the age of 

 seventeen or eighteen can thus be obtained near home. 



Life in the suburbs opens the way to a family home — one's very 

 own, eliminating forever the yearly move. Don't pay rent — own your 

 home so you can do with it as you please. Permanence of location is 

 helpful to well-being, so then make a careful selection. Take time 

 to make an intelligent choice and, where you settle, make the best of 

 it — stick. If you have the funds to pay for the home outright you are 

 among the fortunate ones, otherwise the local building and loan asso- 

 ciation will take care of you at no greater outlay than rent if you 

 own the ground and are considered a good moral risk. Inside of eleven 

 years the home is yours and the money which would otherwise have 

 gone to a generally indifferent landlord may be applied to betterments, 

 to education or to the purchase of more land. 



Whether it is better to buy than to build depends on circum- 

 stances. Painstaking investigation is always in order. 



The family home, the home for your children and quite likely for 

 some of your children's children, the home wherein the family tradi- 

 tions will Hnger, surely that is the home that's wanted — the home to 

 which your children may return, and the recollection of which will 

 brighten the toilsome days they may be forced to spend away from it. 

 The family home is the wisest of all investments; it is the foundation 

 which makes for family honor and stability. Pedigree adds to the 

 stabihty of our country and its institutions, and the family home is the 

 source and foundation of true patriotism. 



There is no Springtime in the city, no Autumn. Among the 

 bricks and stone the unfolding glories of Spring are unknown to the 

 toiler and his family. The city is equally unresponsive to the awaken- 

 ing life of the one as it is to the passing glories of the other. A city 

 knows but two seasons, Sununer and Winter; the reviving Spring and 

 glorious Autumn are both imknown. 



Do not let it be said of you: "The city was his country; he loved 

 better to hear the trolley car rattle than the birds carol." The city 

 may be a good place to work in; it imdoubtedly is; but if all our homes 

 couM be in the freedom of the country we would be a superior race. 



A. T. D. 



