. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . aselessly on from the first dimllusli of dawn to the tlying glow of sun-set; the titanic sculpturing of wind andcloud; the peietry tliat nature com|)osesby the hand i:>f her tragedians, storm andtempest; and the pastorals she writes insunshine and in calm. .\11 this is seen bythe dweller beneatit the open sky. It be-comes a part of his very being, and, en-tering into his nature, makes him of thebrotherhood of the ])oels. Now and thenthere has been a writer to celebrate thesweet,
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . aselessly on from the first dimllusli of dawn to the tlying glow of sun-set; the titanic sculpturing of wind andcloud; the peietry tliat nature com|)osesby the hand i:>f her tragedians, storm andtempest; and the pastorals she writes insunshine and in calm. .\11 this is seen bythe dweller beneatit the open sky. It be-comes a part of his very being, and, en-tering into his nature, makes him of thebrotherhood of the ])oels. Now and thenthere has been a writer to celebrate thesweet, shady side of Iall Mall, but thegreat chorus of singers since the worldbegan have accepted the old dictum thatman made tlie city and that <Jod lives incountry places. If there be a closer intimacy with na-ture, there is also a closer fellowshi]) withmankind, where ones circle of friends isrestricted. So many artificial barriers ex-ist, and must exist, among city dwellers,that living becomes a long series of de-fensive tactics. If friendships are formed in a city, itis in sjjite of the multitude that sur-. Ttic PMlr«lunthlnc And In Calm THE SUBURBANITE rounds. Propinquity is without meaning;such friendships, if they could be repre-sented by lines drawn from house tohouse, would give rise to entanglementsmuch like those seen in the air before thetelegraph wires went underground. Ex-cept for certain conventional, and usuallymeaningless relations, kept up by the fos-tering care of women, there would be nosocial life in most of our large cities, andwhat there is is hardly worth the effort togalvanize it into life. This does not mean that all suburbansettlements l)ear a striking resemblance tothe happy-family cage in a are disadvantages in knowingones neighbors, but these disadvantagesare such as war against apathy and tendto keep human intercourse humane. Theyare like the small, spicy quarrels of oldmarried couples, merely surface interrup-tions of a general harm
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