he cannot pay wages, and this strain of making a business pay enslaves 

 a man. 



The highest independence would be that happy state in which a 

 man would neither hire nor be hired. This happy state can only come 

 about where the environment is made to produce the greatest part of 

 the necessaries of life. The first essential of life in the matter of food 

 can be produced from fertile soil intensively cultivated. Herem this 

 favored State of California it is possible to grow almost the entire 

 living from a very little land. With one acre of good fertile well- 

 watered soil in this sunny State of California, a family can have the 

 best living in the world and better than any wages can ever buy. 



Besides an abundance of good things to eat, the family will have 

 independence, which is the highest state for man. Any wage earner 

 can take the same number of hours he devotes to earning his wages and 

 make a better living from one acre, if rightly handled. With vegetables 

 and berries and fruits and flowers, life has a fit setting for the best that 

 is in it. Among the growing, natural, living things is the place for the 

 most abundant life. With poultry and rabbits and pigeons for income 

 for clothes, bees to make honey, a goat or cow for milk, with plenty 

 of good rich cream for strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, 

 gooseberries, and all the delicious fruits, with all these luxuries fresh 

 from the garden, a family is a Royal Family and the man King of his 

 own little kingdom. In such a kingdom, man needs but little money, 

 for he has more than money can buy in peace of mind, health of body 

 and the most delicious nourishing food. 



RUNNYMEDE is the name of this practical community of associated 

 little farms. It is a visual manifestation of the dreams of men come 

 true in little garden homes with poultry for income. Runnymede is not 

 a real estate proposition. There are no agents. It is a Co-operative 

 Community formed on practical lines, built up on the richest, best- 

 watered soil in the State, near the best schools and with home market. 



This prosperous community owns its own warehouse and sells its 

 own produce. To all interested in finding a garden home with poultry, 

 rabbits, pigeons, bees, etc., for income, Runnymede offers the best 

 opportunities in the four essentials of soil, water, climate and market. 



To those weary of working for wages, Runnymede offers a higher 

 independence. 



To specialists, tired of monotony, Runnymede offers a life of more 

 variety. Here teachers, ministers, lawyers, doctors find a larger free- 

 dom with peace of mind and health of body. 



To those who have wealth in money, Runnymede offers a new kind 

 of wealth in quiet nerves, rested mind, good digestion and strong 

 muscles. 



This Third Addition to Runnymede is especially adapted to people of 

 means who wish a pretty setting for a garden home with every essential in 

 soil and water so that they may make a paradise all their own. The 

 mind cannot picture the possibilities in beautiful homes on this rich, 

 well-watered soil overlooking the bay and surrounded by mountains. 

 We have here a far better setting than even the far-famed Pasadena for 

 beautiful homes. It only requires the magic touch of landscape 

 gardeners to transform this beautiful tract into fairyland. With Stan- 

 ford University so near that the chimes are heard, with the finest 



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