. City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden . he best assetto possess is a well-developed garden home, where hemay readily find companions, or a family that is will-ing to occupy the place—(purchase it, perhaps), inreturn for the care of its feeble owner. That is betterthan dependence on friends, relatives, or it is not dependence in any proper sense. Itis ])aying for what you get in the kind of coin that isworth its face. The care of such a place is not beyond the strengthof healthy old age. With no rent to pay, with plentyof vegetables, berri
. City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden . he best assetto possess is a well-developed garden home, where hemay readily find companions, or a family that is will-ing to occupy the place—(purchase it, perhaps), inreturn for the care of its feeble owner. That is betterthan dependence on friends, relatives, or it is not dependence in any proper sense. Itis ])aying for what you get in the kind of coin that isworth its face. The care of such a place is not beyond the strengthof healthy old age. With no rent to pay, with plentyof vegetables, berries, fruit, milk, eggs, and consider-able meat, the cost of living is small. It is quite feasibleto have a little surplus to exchange for cash, especiallyof such things as eggs, chickens and rabbits. Theaverage old man would be far happier and better offin every way in such a home of his own than in a publicinstitution, even of the better sort. In considering thepersonal equation, the ageing jjersoii may well ask him-self if lie knows of any better ])r()vision to make in the. SERVIXG IIKIi COUNTHY AT OVKR 9U Mrs. Tlionias B. Kdwards of Obcrlin, Ohio, ruUivatod Iior war garden after the initial plowing, besides canning vegetables for herself and relatives The Personal Equation 189 days of health and strength than to invest his savingsin a garden home, and acquire all the skill he can inhandling it. This is a question for millions of menand women—a question by no means academic, but ofthe most practical sort. Another aspect of the personal equation: S. , of the National Society of Thrift, quotingfrom the records of the Surrogate Courts, made thisstatement: Of 100 men who die— 3 leave estates of $10,000 or more,15 leave estates of from $2,000 to $10,000,82 out of every 100 leave no income-producingestate at 100 widows— 6 are left in good or comfortable circum-stances,47 are obliged to go to work,35 are left in absolute want. What a reflection on the civiliza
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