July, 1913 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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easier life she would lead “when there isn t j 
that temptation to run to a theatre every 
night.” 
“It’s this way,” Mr. Spence explained 
to his friend Reilly, a real estate operator. 
“My capital — not that in my business, but 
my nest egg — what I’ve got put by—isn't 
getting me anything. It brings me six 
rooms and a bath and an elevator. Now 
I want a home in the country — a place 
where I can look out and see the grass — 
a place where the kids can play somewhere 
else for an hour than in the park or the 
street. I can’t see why I won’t be just as 
well off if I invest my capital in such a 
home and live in it, as I am when I put it 
into bonds and live in a flat which the in¬ 
come from the bonds rents! I don’t mean 
to invest it all. I’ll have commuting ex¬ 
penses and taxes and water rent and have 
to buy coal, of course, which I don’t now ; 
but why can’t I put, say, $15,000 into a 
place, and keep the income from the 
$10,000 to pay those extra expenses and 
then some? I believe I’ll save money. 
There is Wilkins — look at his home, how 
beautiful it is!” 
“It is. I agree,” answered Reilly. ‘‘Of 
course you don't know it, but you don t 
get three acres and a fourteen-room house 
in Stewarton for any $15,000. Wilkins 
place is worth $60,000 to $75,000 if it's 
worth a cent. However — ” seeing Spence’s 
discouraged look — “there are plenty of 
more modest places for $15,000 or $20,000. 
Now in my town — Willisport, you know — 
there are several good houses which you 
can buy. There is one — I think it’s not 
yet sold — where you can have nine rooms, 
two baths, a front lawn, a side lawn, a 
back lawn, several shade trees, a nice 
porch, house in good repair, taxes reason¬ 
able, and it’s in a well-built-up neighbor¬ 
hood. The streets are all made, the alleys 
are all paved, the lighting and sewage and 
water lines are all in and paid for, there 
isn’t any assessment coming at you just as 
you get settled. Want to see it?” 
Mr. Spence did. Mr. Spence went and 
saw, and Mrs. Spence went the next day. 
The end of it was that $20,000 of the 
green and gold certificates were disposed 
of, and Mr. Spence found himself, almost 
without knowing it, a full-fledged com¬ 
muter. His children went to the town 
school, his wife joined the local church, 
he invested in a book of railroad coupons 
and learned to catch the 8.07 train in the 
morning by the time he had been in situ 
a week. 
It was May when the move was made. 
The trees were just coming out in their 
new green, the flowers in the tiny garden 
which occupied a two-foot strip in front 
of the porch were beginning to bloom, and 
it was with considerable satisfaction that 
Mr. Spence ordered a lawn mower. It 
was not until he had noted some curious 
glances and heard a muttered remark or 
two that he realized that he was not ex¬ 
pected by his neighbors to be his own man- 
of-all-work. 
“Evidently I don’t know the ropes,” he 
said to himself. “All the commuters’ 
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