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towns, for the acquaintances made by your -children in the former 

 will, as a whole, be more pernaanent and have a larger bearing on 

 their future because they are more intimately brought together in 

 their school, their play and their daily' association. 



Suburban public schools are governed to a great extent by men 

 who have come out from the cities. Their advantages here are equal 

 to those of the city, perhaps superior, because the classes average 

 smaller, high schools abound, and the education of the youth up to the 

 age of seventeen or eighteen can thus be obtained at or very near 

 home. 



Life in the suburbs opens the way to a family home — one's very 

 own, eUminating forever the yearly move. Don't pay rent — own your 

 home so you can do with it as you please. Permanence of location is 

 helpful to well-being, so then make a cafeful selection. Take time 

 to make an intelligent choice and, where you settle, make the best of 

 it; stick. If you have the funds to pay for the home outright, you are 

 among the fortunate ones, otherwise the local building and loan 

 association wiU take care of you at no greater outlay than rent if you 

 9wn the groimd and are considered a good moral risk. Inside of eleven 

 years the home is yours and the money which would otherwise go to a 

 generally indifferent landlord may be applied .to betterments, to 

 education or to the purchase of more land. 



Whether it is better to buy than to build depends on circum- 

 stances. Painstaking investigation is always in order. 



The family home, the home for your children and quite likely for 

 some of your children's children, the home wherein the family tradi- 

 tions will Knger, surely that is the home that's wanted— the home to 

 which your children may come back and the recollection of which will 

 brighten all the toilsome days of their Uves. The family home is the 

 wisest of all investments; it is the foundation which makes for family 

 honor and stability. Pedigree adds to the stability of our country 

 and its institutions, and the family home is the source and foundation 

 of true patriotism. 



There is no Springtime in the city, no Autumn. Among the 

 bricks and stone the unfolding glories of Spring are unknown to the 

 toiler and his family. The city is equally unresponsive to the awaken- 

 ing life of the one as it is to the passing glories of the other. A city 

 has but two seasons. Summer and Winter, mostly the latter — the Win- 

 ter of our discontent. 



Do not let it be said of you: " The city was his country; he loved 

 better to hear the trolley car rattle than the birds carol." The city 

 may be a good place to work in; it undoubtedly is; but if all our homes 

 could be in the freedom of the country we would be a superior race. 



