. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . f tliis wicked worldas lie away from his own fire-side. But after the thirty markhas been turned there comelongings for amusements thatgive more solid stimulus to themind—absorbing spare houroccupations at wdiicli one mayplay, and play hard. These easethe strain of growing responsi-bilities in life and fit a man todo his real work with zest. I never had a hobby until weleft our cramped flat in Harlemand came, bag and baggage, tolive in room v. reasonable Jer-sey. But I had longings.


. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . f tliis wicked worldas lie away from his own fire-side. But after the thirty markhas been turned there comelongings for amusements thatgive more solid stimulus to themind—absorbing spare houroccupations at wdiicli one mayplay, and play hard. These easethe strain of growing responsi-bilities in life and fit a man todo his real work with zest. I never had a hobby until weleft our cramped flat in Harlemand came, bag and baggage, tolive in room v. reasonable Jer-sey. But I had longings. Sev-eral years before we weredriven back to Eden I raisedlarge crops of garden truck on paper, following the changing seasonsand weather in the pages of farm dabbled in amateur photography inthe same way and acquired a vast storeof photographic wisdom without everowning a camera. A dark room in ourcarefully jjlanned flat was as much out ofquestion as a vegetable garden in the backarea. .other hobby that I rode mentallywas carpentering. Ever since the Christ-mas day when a maiden aunt gave me a. NEAR WESTFIHLD TH E S L 15 r U H A N I l K


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