Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-02-18
HOUSES WITHOUT FENCES.
Some of the Bad Results of Fencelessnesi
 Home Privacy.

Home Prfvacy.
 There is a growing fashion of building houses without fences, and we even see fences removed from houses already pro- vided with them. Probably economy is at the bottom of the fashion, but there are also many people who admire it. ''How pretty street looks without fences," they say. 1t is like park. ; Perhaps it is, but do any of us want to live in park?
 Having once had a house in one of these fenceless communities, I would like to describe some of the peculiarities of the system. The principal trouble was | about children. It was impossible to turn them out with any safety to play in their own yard, unless they had a nurse in constant attendance. Most children can be taught to stay in a yard which has | fence and gate, but few are so obedIent l as to remain on ground which has no boundary but a line of turf. The conse- | quence was that i'll our neighborhood the middle of the street was the favorite play Eound for children of all ages, the very sotlc ones taking an especial delight, like hens, in the depth of the dust, and also, of course frequently running away. The | meaning to these children, and the fact | that "a mans house is his castle, ;" and that no one has a right to trespass on other people grounds, was never guessed at by most of the members of our rising generation. I have watched the children coming home from school, and have noticed that every child made bee line for home without the slightest reference to private grounds, which they crossed at every angle which was t1nost convent ent. even saw one boy climb up and look into a window of house he was passing.
 Not only children, however, but grown people passed back and forth over each others grounds, as matter of course, going between gentleman's house and his outhouses, and passing close to the windows, or to people sitting out on the lawn.
 As with human beings, so with dogs. They spent most of their time in then neighbors' yards or on their piazzas where they would sometimes prevent callers from ringing the door bell. There was one lady who was actually unablC sometimes to 20 out upon her own piaZZs because the immense dog of a quite dis tant neighbor had a fancy for lying there and if she appeared, would threaten ant growl at her. As to dogs rolling anc wrestling with each other in the fowel beds, and turning up unexpectedly il the cellar, that was quite matter O course.
 Then there were COWS. To be sur, they were not allowed to go loose, bu every now and then ono would pull u the stake to which she was tied, so tha twice I found footprints, which looket large enough for thoso of a mastodon, al over my flower beds and soft, newl,
 made lawn Then one day I happene,
 to glance out of one of my chamber vvi,
 dows, and discovered a very largo but foraging directly below 1t, with herd o attendant COWS. They had all broken ou of their pasture. The same thing hap pened occasionally with horses. I ono counted nine, all passing up the street with nothing between them and tn playing children and neatly kept Howe beds. Such inconvenience as these d
 not seem to be balanced by the suppoSe' beauty of the fenceless system. In Europe the feeling that the first es sential of a refined home IS privacy carried rather too far. for the high wall with which gentlemen's houses are s often surrounded are a sad drawback t the beauty of the country in general; bu ) believe that the principle is a right one } 4 house which stands as it were in tn } street, which is not separated either by l hedge or fence from the public thorough f fare, is wanting, in my opinion, in one ( | the most important elements of tru home.-Boston Transcript.