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who could not appreciate the wonderful ad- 

 vantages of city existence. The fact is, it was 

 exactly because city life was existence and 

 country life was living that they left, left 

 gladly and freely, and were wise forerunners 

 of one of the most remarkable population 

 movements of modern times. 



Are the delights of the city, then, only arti- 

 ficial ? It would seem so, for otherwise how 

 is it possible to explain the many defections 

 that have taken place? If the satisfaction of 

 living in the city was real and solid, surely 

 those who have tasted of this bliss would not 

 voluntarily withdraw themselves from it and 

 hie themselves to the country? Yet this is 

 what is happening now and happening daily. 



The reasons for this change of feeling are 

 not hard to find. The cities are more fascinat- 

 ing to-day than they ever were. They contain 

 more things to see. They have larger and 

 more beautiful buildings; they have fine parks; 

 they have many places of pleasure and delight; 

 they boast the finest possible shops, and the 

 doings in their theaters are solemnly chronicled 

 in a jealous press as matters of supreme im- 

 portance. City life is richer and fuller than 

 it has ever been. 



Yet all these things are participated in at 

 heavy cost. It is scarcely fair to take New 

 York city as the type of the American city ; 

 yet it stands at the top of the list as our larg- 

 est city and the most developed. It has already 

 become a truism that, in a very few years, only 

 two classes of people can live there — the very 

 rich and the very poor. The reason is obvious. 

 The very rich will alone be able to meet the 

 excessive cost of home building, and the very 

 poor must content themselves with the 

 wretched accommodations provided by tene- 

 ments of a poor sort — property often vastly 

 profitable to its owners because as little care 

 as possible is taken of it. 



The medium class, therefore, is thrust out 

 into the suburbs and the country simply be- 

 cause it can not find accommodations for itself 

 within city limits. Hence the great suburban 

 expansion which characterizes all our cities, 

 large and small. It has become a necessary 

 feature of city growth, and since these people 

 work in the cities and are thus associated with 

 them, it is a new form of city life, the latest 

 and the most modern. 



" Better houses for less money," is the motto 

 of the suburbs ! " More land at less cost," is the 

 keynote of the success of the near-by country- 

 side! Yet the American appetite for bargains 

 is by no means the sole cause of the success of 

 country living for city folk. Those going out 

 have found a fresh and new delight in country 

 life which is as rare and as fascinating to them 

 as the new pleasures of the city are to the 

 countryman when he first comes to town. 



A whole new world is opened up, the finest 

 possible world, a world of gentle pleasure and 

 of quiet joys, a world of peace and of delight, 

 a world that it is pleasant to see and to live in. 

 The city man has but to know this world to 

 realize that the utmost joys of the city were 

 artificial, feeble, inane and insufficient. He 

 no longer views the countryman with con- 

 tempt, but learns that he has been the wiser 

 man, having more at his doors than could be 

 bought within the town, and getting more 

 from life than the most crowded thoroughfare 

 could give. 



But the two classes of residents have no 

 need to view each other with contempt. Taken 

 rationally the city will give to those who use 

 it properly all the rateable enjoyment they 

 need, exactly as the country approached in the 

 proper spirit will yield to those who live there 

 its utmost fruits. But the city is apt to in- 

 toxicate one by the very fulness and variety 

 of its life, while the country may deaded 

 through surfeit of evenness. It is not given to 



