CHAPTER TWO 

 SELECTING A HOME 



W E face the most difficult problem at the outset, 

 and I assure you this is the most difficult chapter 

 for me to write. There are so many kind of folk, 

 and so many sorts of places, that to put them to- 

 gether with any nicety and fitness is a serious prob- 

 lem. Nature hates uniformity and conformity. 

 Even on the prairie it will be impossible to find two 

 localities exactly alike. Among our hills and val- 

 leys, how glorious is the variety of knolls, swales, 

 nooks, slopes, and brook-visited meadows, where 

 one may pronounce the word Home with delight ? 

 What we add to these various places should be as 

 unlike as they are themselves dissimilar. 



Suppose we take a trolley where it runs its fingers 

 up into the little valleys, and look about among 

 what used to be isolated farmhouses. Perhaps 

 you would prefer to secure a ride with Rural Free 

 Mail carrier, Route 16, and go over the hills where 



