CHAPTER III. 
WHAT KIND OF HOME GKOUNDS WILL BEST SUIT BUSINESS MEN, 
AND THEIE 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 
