CHAPTER TWO 
SELECTING A HOME 
We 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 
