. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . a building—a shell of brick, stucco, and slate, withno sound of merriment within. At long intervals, however—say abouteverv three months—the communitv would, as if through the action of un-conscious cerebration, rouse itself fromits coma, and, by a common impulse ofdesperation, proceed to convince itselfthat it still was alive. It appointed a re-ception committee, the casino was un-locked, decorated with plants and dra-peries—and beautifully, too—and thecommunity gave a dance. Then,
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . a building—a shell of brick, stucco, and slate, withno sound of merriment within. At long intervals, however—say abouteverv three months—the communitv would, as if through the action of un-conscious cerebration, rouse itself fromits coma, and, by a common impulse ofdesperation, proceed to convince itselfthat it still was alive. It appointed a re-ception committee, the casino was un-locked, decorated with plants and dra-peries—and beautifully, too—and thecommunity gave a dance. Then, as ifdazed by its own temerity, it lapsed againinto its usual coma, varied only by occa-sional small dinners at which one met thesame people and always heard the samethings about the same babies. But thatcasino served a useful purpose. .\tstated intervals it enabled a communityto prove to its own satisfaction that itwas not yet ready to he invited to itsown funeral. Now this suburb, partly through itsown charms and the taste with which itsfounder planned and laid it out. partly lO THE SUBURBANITE. through the influence of a very flourish-ing country club in Us immediate neigh-borhood, has become a Hve httle place—so busy enjoying itself that its residentsprobably have quite forgotten the timewhen two or three dances at a casino,which betweentimes was locked up, con-stituted the annual sum total of com-munal enjoyment. Yet that casino, asthen conducted, was a type of the tenta-tive American country club before it wasmade the center of some popular that it gradually became the cen-ter of much incidental social activity. The old-time casino—for ten years agois old-time in the history of the clubswhich now fairly swarm all over theLnited States—played a small part in so-cial life compared with the moderncountry club. Then the country residentwas such in name only. Projected athalf-past seven in the morning throughtwcntv or thirty miles of space, more or
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