HOUSE AND GARDEN 
September, 
1913 
179 
thing really belonging only to the rich, 
but dumped at her feet by her husband’s 
need of morning" and evening transporta¬ 
tion, the car became to Mrs. Spence an in¬ 
tegral part of her life. She went to see her 
friends in it. She formed new acquaint¬ 
ances by its use. She used it to keep her 
maids contented. She visited the doctor 
and the dentist by its quick magic of easy 
transportation. By the use of the car she 
enlarged her circle of acquaintances to 
such an extent that within a year she 
found, not that she was lonely for lack of 
companionship, but that she had hardly 
any time for her household duties because 
of her social ones. Neighborhood clubs, 
societies, entertainments and dances be¬ 
came everyday possibilities because of the 
car. To go to a card party fifteen miles 
away would have seemed a Herculean task 
in Willisport. Here it was merely starting 
at a quarter past seven to arrive, after a 
pleasant drive, at eight fifteen. To drive 
to St. Claire, a neighboring suburb which 
had grown into a town of forty thousand 
people, for small shopping, meant no more 
than a half hour's trip, and a half hour’s 
trip in the city was no trip at all. Greatly 
to her own surprise, Mrs. Spence found 
the car not at all a mark of distinction, of 
social prominence, of wealth or of fash¬ 
ion, as she had fondly been taught to be¬ 
lieve it, but merely an indispensable factor 
in her everyday life. All her neighbors 
had cars — all the countryside motored 
everywhere it went. 
“Why,” she wrote to a school friend, 
after six months in Castleton, “we simply 
couldn’t live anywhere else but in the 
country, after trying it. But we couldn’t 
live here if it wasn't for what we’ve been 
taught to call the Good Fairy. I never 
could keep maids until I let them use the 
car. Now I’ve come to see there is no 
reason why a maid should want to isolate 
herself in the country with no society nor 
human intercourse. But I share my car 
with them, and they get off for pleasures 
of their own almost as often as they want. 
And I’ve thought this out — we have come 
to regard the car merely as an adjunct, a 
daily necessity. To them it spells wealth 
and prestige. To drive down to the station 
in the car to welcome their own friends 
from town, or to go shopping at St. Claire 
in the car with Jack to drive them (the 
hired man, not my husband, my dear), is to 
them a luxury, an experience of which 
they never tire. As for being lonely — 
there is a steady procession of cars going 
past the house all the time, and every other 
car turns in with a neighbor, a request or 
an invitation. 
“You ask about isolation, and if we don’t 
find our life very provincial. Honestly, I 
think we are less so than when we lived in 
the city. There our principal amusements 
were theatres, card parties, restaurants. 
Here we have parties, to be sure, and we 
still go into the city for the theatre and an 
occasional meal. You must not think of 
us as living isolated lives—with the car we 
get where we want almost as quickly and 
much more pleasantly than we could with 
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When two strongmen stand face to face, tho ’ they come from the ends of the earth!” 
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Kipling tells the story of an Indian 
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