CHAPTER III 

 BESIDE BEAUTIFUL WATERS 



It is the situation of a home that makes or 

 mars it. Spend a million dollars on a palace, 

 locate it poorly, and it is lost. You may 

 build with all the art that genius and wealth 

 can command, and if you build in an un- 

 healthful climate or near a fish factory, art 

 and wealth and genius have failed. 



The one thing that makes New York im- 

 possible for a real home is the certainty that 

 sooner or later a hotel, a flat, a store, a 

 church, a factory, a stable or a saloon will be 

 located near you. It is only a question of 

 time when the palaces of millionaires are 

 moved by these forces. 



The thing which charmed me first with the 

 spot in Tidewater Virginia which I selected, 



