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ward the front, this is what you see, as presented in Photo 165. 

 What a charm! What is home without a vine? "Yes, but 

 'too much expense for a poor man,'" do you say? No, not at 

 all ! How much do you suppose the whole cost was ? Two 

 Caladium bulbs, twenty-five cents each ; eight packets of seed, 

 five cents each. There are thousands of common laborers who 



Photo 165 

 At the Side of the House. 



spend more than that every week for tobacco to burn for their 

 own pleasure, while the humble little abode that might be con- 

 verted into a "home" goes as lifeless and desolate outside as the 

 souls are within. How long it takes people to learn that to miss 

 heaven here is to miss it for eternity ! 



In every land and every clime 



Adorn your "home" with shrub and vine. 



