. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . eat suburbandevelopment which has come aboutin the inflexible progress of is the instinct of self-preservation;a reaching out after the means of adding to its length of days; the onlyremedy for the consuming fever, themonomania, the neuresthenia of thecity. It is such a natural process, sucha self-evident solution of a hundredproblems, such a highly flavored andwell sweetened remedy that it isassuredly to continue as it has begununtil the city shall be but a marketplace
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . eat suburbandevelopment which has come aboutin the inflexible progress of is the instinct of self-preservation;a reaching out after the means of adding to its length of days; the onlyremedy for the consuming fever, themonomania, the neuresthenia of thecity. It is such a natural process, sucha self-evident solution of a hundredproblems, such a highly flavored andwell sweetened remedy that it isassuredly to continue as it has begununtil the city shall be but a marketplace, a shop, a great manufacturingestablishment to which the proprietorwill come with his bunch of keys atnine oclock in the morning, whichshall rock and tremble at the blows ofthe mechanics hammer and the might-ier blows struck by the Titans offinance, but at night shall answer onlyto the echo of the watchmans foot-step -for the city is moving out intothe country. Tis sweet to him, who all the week,Through city crow ds must push his way,To stroll alone throufrh fields and woodsAnd hallow thus the Sabbath •A of Rcluir in ihr Suburbi T HE S f lUMi H A X I I V. 19 Life has become so intense, so ab-sorbed in itself, that it will be con-sumed by its owii fires unless touchedby the cooling hand of Nature, theone great restorer and rejuvenator. Before he found this harbor of refugein the sul)urbs. the man of moderatemeans had no opportunity to make areal home for himself and his man may spend all his substance ona city flat or a pent-up city house; hemay call it a home and try to makehimself believe it is a home, but downdeep in his heart he knows that it isonly a makeshift, only one of thethousands of burrows in the greatcity cavern, into which he, like hisfellows, crawls at night, only to crawlout again in the morning unsatisfiedand unappeased. There is nothing on earth to makea man feel that he is a real man, aman made in the image of God, amanly man among his
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