THE COUNTRY HOME [CHAPTER 
power. Articles of clothing, as well as cheese and 
butter, are once more becoming matters of domestic 
and cottage industry. The great factory assem- 
blages of population are slowly giving way to small 
manufacturing and agricultural groups. In France 
electric motors furnish power to domestic weavers 
for about fifteen dollars a year for each loom. In 
the city of Lyons alone, five hundred looms for 
weaving have recently been installed in private 
homes. The results are more regular employment 
and an increase of the earnings of the weaver, while 
he becomes at the same time owner of a country 
home and a garden — if not a large acreage, with- 
out rent. Power is secured from stock companies, 
which supply electricity to a given area — town or 
otherwise — and distribute this power to houses, at 
a maximum charge of about one dollar and fifty 
cents per month. 
This is the future of country life. The revolu- 
tion that is suggested must be at once reckoned 
with by social economists. Industrialism, and not 
mere sentiment, is working away from the cities 
countryward. We have, approximately, a solution 
of the factory problem — the overcrowding of work- 
men, and especially women and children, in huge 
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