The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
SUBURBAN HOMES.

Pleasures That City Dweliers Do Not En-.
JOY.
He alone of all people is the truly
rich man who is able to produce suff1.
cient TO satisfy his daily needs While
there is and probably always will be d
large class of wealthy and non-produc-
ing consumers, they are not, as mat
ter of fact, the ones to be envied.
Very few persons who have not tried
the experiment can realize the delight
that springs from a knowledge that ones
own watchful care has produced or
been the means of producing portion
OF the necessaries of daily life. City
dwellers are deprived of this pleasure
and privilege, and in this lies one of
the great mistakes of existence. Some
day, when humanity is wiser then it is
now, we will find the. clerk the book
keeper and the attache living in some
suburban locality accessible to business
by the rapid transit that is one of the
things of the near future. But first of
all, the rapid transit problem must be
satisfactorily solved; then. after time.
for growth in this matter is very slow,
the city employee will learn that there
is nothing quite as grateful and
nature that he can enjoy on his little
one or two-acre plot sufficiently
near the city. Here. when the DAYS
work is over. he may find a change of
employment which cannot but be bene-
fetal. couple of hours work every
day would be ample to keep a small
place in order, and the products of such
labor are among the most delightful
things in the world Every man Of av-
erage Intelligence could raise on his
plot of ground sufficient fruit and veg
etables to supply his family. Then the
salary or the moderate income could be
diverted to paying for the home, fur
nishing it, filing ii with books, pictures
and music, and put within the reach of
the young the thousand and one ad-
vantages of which they are too often
deprived.
To have the suburban home at its
best and to arrange it so that it will
give the greatest benefit to its occupant,
two things are necessary: Proper rail
road facilities, which include fast serv-
ice and low tariff, and a rational. COM
nonsense, helpful building association
Given these two, and men and women
would fly from the noisy, dusty city as
from the day OF wrath
The prospect Of 4 garden, an orchard
a lawn with no menacing keep off the
grass signs to interrupt the frolicsome
mirth of the children, pony carriage,
the COW that doesn't come in a quart
can, poultry that has not been frozen
or subject to other processes which
would be fatal to the appetite, We're
they ever referred to- fresh eggs and
pure air and sunshine in limitless guam
tity-all of these would prove attrac-
tons SO alluring that no well regulated
mind could withstand them.
Few persons realize that on a plot
two hundred feet square one may grow
more fruit than an ordinary household
could consume the year around.
To live away from the hurry and
hustle and noise OF city. but sufficient
" near to be able TO reach ones count
ing room al short notice; to sit literally
under the shadow OF ones own vine and
tg tree, and to know, when cold wealth
err comes on, that cellar and store-clos-
cts are full TO overlooking with home
made goodies of all sorts; 10 eat the
sweetest butter drink the freshest
milk, and breathe the ncontaminated
and refreshing air, and to watch the
varying phase of nature. is an un-
alloyed pleasure, and one which once
enjoyed, IS never willingly abandoned
N. Y. Ledger.