Roland Park , near Baltimore 
THE MAIN HALL OF THE CLUB HOUSE 
is found in the increasing disposition on the 
part of American men of affairs to grant 
themselves more respites from business cares 
than was formerly their wont,—if not a 
lengthier actual holiday, at least more pro¬ 
tracted intervals for the enjoyment of home 
comforts before and after their daily office 
hours. 
For the very large proportion of our urban 
population who must keep more or less 
closely in touch with city affairs and who 
could not, therefore, even if they wished, 
become participants in country life in its ele¬ 
mentary form, suburban residence not only 
affords an admirable substitute, but actually 
possesses innumerable advantages over the 
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Designed by Messrs. 
greater isolation of rural existence. Particu¬ 
larly to dwellers in our largest cities where 
the congestion and the resultant price of real 
estate render practically prohibitive the lux¬ 
ury of a detached house does the pleasant 
suburb, with its individual miniature estates, 
its trees and flowers and lawns, appeal with 
potency. 
The present day enthusiasm is but the 
fruit of a growing appreciation of the joys 
and benefits of suburban residence which has 
extended back over many years. Many cir¬ 
cumstances delayed for a time, however, the 
realization of the ambitions of the earlier 
advocates of this pleasurable form of exist¬ 
ence. For one thing, lack of transportation 
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