HOW HOMES HAVE CHANGED 25 



and games, his skates and gun. The girl thinks of her 

 dainty bedroom, with its pretty pictures and hangings, 

 and both probably think more than anything else of 

 the father and mother who make life really worth while 

 at home. Home, then, is more than a place to live in ; it 

 means father, mother, brothers, and sisters ; it means 



A suburban home. 



family life, with all its give and take, its unselfishness and 

 loyalty to the ideals which father and mother believe to be 

 right. 



How homes have changed from their first beginnings on 

 the earth. There was a time a good many thousand 

 years ago when people living on the earth had no real 

 homes. They were nomads, traveling from one place to 

 another, staying here a night and there a day, never remain- 

 ing long in one place. Then came the discovery of fire. 



