CHAPTER III. 
WHAT KIND OF HOME GROUNDS WILL BEST SUIT BUSINESS MEN, 
AND THEIR COST. 
“ Nature is immovable and yet mobile ; that is her eternal charm. Her unwearied activity, 
her ever-shifting phantasmagoria, do not weary, do not disturb ; this harmonious motion bears in 
itself a profound repose.” — Madame Michelet. 
I T is always a difficult matter to keep the happy medium be- 
tween extravagance and parsimony. This uncertainty will 
be felt by every business man of moderate means who begins 
