184 City Homes on Country Lanes 



susceptible of being awakened and cultivated in a high 

 degree, like the sense of democracy in backward 

 peoples. 



The country-minded are confined to no particular 

 walk in life. To illustrate, in one garden city, where 

 some one took pains to get the data, it was found that 

 the following occupations were represented : House- 

 wives, farmers, carpenters, physicians, stenographers, 

 nurserymen, builders, editors, grocers, craftsworkers, 

 stationary engineers, school-teachers, dressmakers, 

 clerks, expert accountants, photographers, contractors, 

 real estate men, printers, clergymen, horticulturists, 

 electricians, metal workers, bank clerks, mining engi- 

 neers, artists, assayers, bookkeepers, jewelers, black- 

 smiths, music-teachers, authors, storekeepers, car- 

 builders, railroad conductors, civil service men, machin- 

 ists, hotel steward, lumber dealer, truckman, newspaper 

 manager, superintendent of water-works, landscape 

 gardener, locomotive engineer, construction foreman, 

 produce dealer, rancher, gardener, dry goods, tinner, 

 cooper, wood patternmaker, laborer, restaurant man, 

 worsted weaver, patent medicine. 



As the appeal of the garden home is by no means 

 limited to any particular walk in life, neither is it 

 limited to either sex. The garden home is preeminently 

 a family rooftree, and its ideal proprietor is the man 

 with wife and children, all interested and helpful. I 

 venture to predict that the divorce rate will decrease 

 with the growth of garden homes. Such homes are far 

 more favorable to domestic- felicity than apartment 

 houses and family hotels. The mere fact of partner- 

 ship in a mutual enterprise will have something to do 



