CHAPTEE XXIII 



HOME BUILDING AND THE FARM 



MAN is the most pronounced home loving ani- 

 mal, for he devotes his greatest energy to 

 home building and home adornment. If possessed 

 of large means he builds for his home palaces and 

 castles "domed and turreted" and surrounded by 

 spacious grounds gloriously parked by Nature and 

 human hands. If possessed of moderate means 

 he builds the average home, pleasing, pleasant and 

 of modest design. If his means be meager he con- 

 structs the little cottage and adorns it with the 

 clinging vine, the simple furnishings and surround- 

 ings. In either home he finds the sacred refuge 

 of life from the storms without. In the palace or 

 most pretentious home he does not always find the 

 abiding place of true affections and the sacred 

 refuge of rest. Neither does he always find them 

 in the humble cottage. But home is his greatest 

 solace and comfort. He gives up his life in service 

 for it. Take home out of man's life and what is 

 left for which it is worthy to fight and strive and 

 endure I The young man and woman in early life 

 begin to look out and beyond the vision of their 

 childhood's home for their future home vision, and 

 home life, and if they catch the vision of home it 

 generally is the vision of the palace or more pre- 

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