. City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden . )ful. Iventure to j)re(lict that the divorce rate will decreasewith the growth of garden homes. Such homes are farmore favorable to domestic felicity than apartmenthouses and family hotils. The mere fact of partner-sliip in a nmtual enterprise will have something to do. Mail y a mail wli \ IM. I -1,1 L Al 81 in the days of his strength, has provided himself with a WLll-eqiiipp«d(iardea Home, will find the answer to the poets prayer:May my hi>t days be my best. The Personal Equation 185 with it; absorpt


. City homes on country lanes; philosophy and practice of the home-in-a-garden . )ful. Iventure to j)re(lict that the divorce rate will decreasewith the growth of garden homes. Such homes are farmore favorable to domestic felicity than apartmenthouses and family hotils. The mere fact of partner-sliip in a nmtual enterprise will have something to do. Mail y a mail wli \ IM. I -1,1 L Al 81 in the days of his strength, has provided himself with a WLll-eqiiipp«d(iardea Home, will find the answer to the poets prayer:May my hi>t days be my best. The Personal Equation 185 with it; absorption in interesting work will have itspart; but more than all else, the spiritual companion-ship that goes with the trees and flowers and open only will there be fewer divorces; there will bemore marriages and more children, and for similarreasons. The occupations of the garden home are all such aswomen can readily pursue, if they have the taste forsuch things. An interesting and inspiring book mightbe written on this phase of the subject. Nothing ex-cept the limitation of space restrains me from relatingmany experiences of the kind which have come undermy own observation during the past ^0 years. Evenso, I must refer to a single instance that may inspireothers to the adventure. In one of the most picturesque of California valleys,


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