Two) SELECTING A HOME 
gives the owner fresh fruit and vegetables and his 
winter potatoes, while it lowers his meat bill, be- 
cause he has his own milk and chickens and eggs, 
while he is forming the habit of using more fruit. 
In the course of five years, by saving rent and keep- 
ing well on a better diet, a horse has been added to 
the family group. When this was done the wife 
and children could enjoy life better, and they could 
much enlarge and improve their garden. The wife, 
a woman of common sense, found a few private 
customers for her eggs, apples and vegetables. ‘This 
led to more berries and flowers, until her income 
equaled that of her husband. If this book gets into 
the hands of many such people — and that is just 
what I wish —I would say, be sure of one thing, 
that you do not indulge in shame for any honest 
work. It is not a disgrace to sell — peddle, if you 
choose to call it — what you have the-wit to produce. 
Above all, keep out of your children’s heads that 
earning is less honorable than spending. I have 
poor neighbors who, for their dear lives’ sake, would 
not take a load of vegetables or berries to market. 
False shame is always a mark of degeneracy. 
Riding between Boston and Albany I chanced to 
sit with a Boston merchant. “I live out here,” he 
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