The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-11-05

guests were several parents and
guardians of young children, who
were living in town. several of them
occupying houses that stood on one or
two ordinary-sized lots. They rarely
got away from home for day, and
were enjoying their outing to the ut
most. Nearly all of them had been
city jewellers. who had settled in this
suburban place, partly for the sake
of room in which the youngsters could
have a better chance of out-of-door
exercise and development. and partly
because the country was considered
more healthful than the city. Their
talk turned upon rapid transit as
means for suburban development, and
each and every one agreed that with
the enormous amount Of unoccupied
land all about the vicinity, it was a
great misfortune that transportation
facilities were not sufficiently avail
able to make it possible for families.
who, for any reason, did not wish to
keep horses. to live in some of these
delightful localities. But this involves
an amount of care and cost that per-
sons of moderate means are unable
and unwilling to incur, says the New
York Ledger. If families with chill
dren could live where there were good
facilities for getting to business the
land would speedily be taken up and
comfortable and commodious home
steads would spring up along every
highway. Schools would increase in
number and quality, and every be-
longing would have added importance
and value. With every good house and
well-fitted place the adjacent proper.
ty would become more attractive, and
improvements would grow by what
they fed upon. Where there are many
well-to-do residents, there are always
advantages in the way of social and in
tellectual treats. The extreme of en-
ioyment is found in communities
where there are number of families
of congenia, tastes, possessing from
| moderate to independent incomes
They plan excursions, get up clubs
picnics, parties and pleasurings of al
descriptions. their children are al
friendly and never lack for proper as
sociates. They have the good of thu
| neighborhood at heart and feel Ger
tain amount of responsibility fol
whatever transpires there. They hav,
| the keenest interest in the moral at
mosphere of the place. and can, on, oc
| casions, form themselves into q com
mittee of citizens to regulate affairs
| correct abuses, restrain vice and roo
! out vicious tendencies. But the great
est of all the benefits of suburban lif
and the rapid transit that makes sue
life possible is the sense of relic
from the espionage of prying eyes. e
haven't been able to go out upon tn
back steps of my house for 81
months" said one of the ladies VIII
made up the house party. "withou
feeling that there were prying eye
peering at me through the Stats in tn
blinds. When l got up here | jus
threw out my arms and took goo
long breath of relief. and the childre
got out into the back yard and shout
ed and raced about, scarcely able t
contain themselves. so filed were the
with sense of freedom and relic
from the criticism of meddlesom
tongues" THE big back yard" wher
children can romp and frolic to thei
hearts content, is one of the privilege
of suburban dwellers who are with
easy reach of the city and their dali
business.