. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ning yarns in the country store. The club exists for a summer colony, which,though it appear regularly with the idesof A lay, vanishes expeditiously with thecalends of October, leaving no one be-hind save the caretaker and the caddies(if, as usually is the case, it be primarilya golf club) and a few occasional en-thusiasts, who, when snow comes, playwith red-painted balls. But the real, all-the-year-round coun-try club, so-called, is, strictly speaking,suburban, and owes its importa
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ning yarns in the country store. The club exists for a summer colony, which,though it appear regularly with the idesof A lay, vanishes expeditiously with thecalends of October, leaving no one be-hind save the caretaker and the caddies(if, as usually is the case, it be primarilya golf club) and a few occasional en-thusiasts, who, when snow comes, playwith red-painted balls. But the real, all-the-year-round coun-try club, so-called, is, strictly speaking,suburban, and owes its importance soci-ologically to that fact. It exists becausethe .American who does business in a city,or lives there, has been seized with anuncontrollable and most commendabledesire to be outdoors: and it promises tobe the safety-valve of an overworked na-tion. ANhoevcr thinks that the country clubis an American imitation of somethingEnglish and had its origin in Anglo-mania is greatly mistaken. Even thoseclubs which owe their origin to cross-country hunting are not open to thecharge. Fox-hunting is an old sport in. PliinfitidCountry Club 12 THE SUBURBANITE the South. George Washington rode tohounds, and he certainly cannot be ac-cused of Anglomania. Philadelphia,which is sometimes twigged with beingrather a sleepv community, has had verywide-awake meets for over a century. InEngland the necessity for the specializedtype of country or suburban club whichwe have developed does not seem to ex-ist. Every English country-seat prac-tically is a country club for its ownersfriends. There they find mounts for thehunt, which in England is cultivated verymuch more as a matter of course thanhere, where, with the zeal with which wego into anything we once take up, wehave developed cross-country huntinginto rather an expensive sport. Yet the special feature of the Ameri-can hunt clubs—the drag—shows theirrelation to the city brings into promi-nence the peculiar suburban character ofthe Ame
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