August, 1913 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
113 
traduce you to him if you like and he will 
tell you all about it.” 
This was unusual — Mr. Spence had 
found that agents didn’t want their cus¬ 
tomers to meet the owners of many of the 
places they had tried to sell to him. But 
the thought of the car suddenly occurred 
to him. 
“Well,” he said, “this is a nice place, 
and I’d buy it in a minute at that price if 
it was within walking distance of the sta¬ 
tion.” 
“No you wouldn’t,” answered Mr. 
Swift, positively. “If it was within walk¬ 
ing distance of the station, it would bring 
from thirty-five to forty-five thousand dol¬ 
lars. Have you been able to find any 
such place as this anywhere, in any sub¬ 
urb, at any such price as this, if it was 
within walking distance of the station?” 
“That’s a fact — I haven’t,” admitted 
Spence, candidly. “But the car—I can’t 
“go” a car. They are undemocratic and a 
bother and I can’t afford it.” 
“Well, perhaps you can’t, Mr. Spence," 
answered Swift. “I can’t tell what a man 
can and cannot afford. But if you cannot 
afford a car, you cannot afford a place like 
this. If you could afford one within walk¬ 
ing distance of the station, you would not 
need a car. By investing one thousand dol¬ 
lars in a car, you save about twenty thou¬ 
sand dollars on the price of the place. If 
I could move this place two miles, I could 
treble its price. By having a car, you are 
within five minutes of the station—though 
you don’t walk. A car may be undemo¬ 
cratic—I don’t know. But you can’t use a 
place like this without a windmill for 
water, without a lighting plant for light, 
and without a bathroom and a stove and a 
telephone, and I can’t honestly see the dif¬ 
ference between having these modern con¬ 
veniences, which make your life comfort¬ 
able and worth while, and that other mod¬ 
ern convenience which eats up distance 
and brings the country and a fine country 
place within the reach of the man of 
moderate means.” 
“Well, if you put it that way—no. I’m 
blessed if I can stand a car. They are too 
expensive, I tell you!” 
Mr. Spence was obstinate. Yet — that 
ground, that orchard, those hens, that 
garden, the swing, the wide open spaces, 
the gardens -■ 
“How much do you want for your pres¬ 
ent place, Mr. Spence?” asked the sales¬ 
man, suddenly. 
“I paid twenty thousand dollars,” was 
the reply. “I’d like to get out whole.” 
“Well, supposing you did—you’d pay 
sixteen thousand for this, buy a car and 
still have a surplus. You’d be as close to 
the station in point of time as you are now, 
almost as close to the city, your taxes 
would be much less, your living would be 
infinitely less, on account of the garden, 
and see—just look about you and see what 
you’d get here for less money than you 
now have invested in your present home. 
The income from vour left-over money 
would much more than pay for the slight 
increase in your commutation.” 
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