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“The Friendly Dooryard” 
HERE is a charm about the old-world dooryard that is lacking too often in our own. We have been wont to feel that so 
long as we barricaded our premises with fences we were obtaining seclusion, or that in removing them we were lending to 
our lawns an appearance of inviting hospitality. Now, fortunately, we have turned in the right direction, and the friendly 
dooryard is coming to be one of the features of our successful homes, whether they are show-places or homes of the man 
of moderate means. We are learning the most attractive sorts of materials to use in building garden walks, to terrace our 
dooryards when they need it, to screen our porches without producing gloomy effects; withal, to make the entrance part 
informal and inviting without sacrificing its dignity. In the days of our great-grandfathers, the old-fashioned flowers and shrubs added 
greatly to the attractive approach to the house. As a matter of fact, these old-fashioned plants became old-fashioned only because we let 
bad taste—that is to say, the lack of it—creep into our efforts at home-making, and this crowded out so much that was lovely everywhere. 
But we have returned to happy paths once more, and again the beautiful blossoms of yesterday's garden may now be found in our own, 
gracing our dooryards and making us feel, every time we set foot upon our premises, that our homes are just that much lovelier for our 
having given thought to the matter of the friendly dooryard, not only for our own satisfaction, but that our neighbor, too, may bless us. 
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