The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
The MoUenent Countryward
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side of the city limits 10 growing rap idly. Gentlemen farmers, with their college trained sons and bright and winsome daughters, are being devel- oped. and scientific farming, terracine and fertilizing land. not with artificial stimulants alone, but with brains and common sense, maintaining real refine ments and sensible luxuries. are grow ing in numbers daily. In few years from now we will have landed families which gave to the South before the civil war It's distinctive and delightful character. And in years to come the next generation will see that the true home of the family Is becoming more and more the country abode, and in- stead of living few weeks of the sum- mer in the country the rule will be- come to spend only few weeks of the winter during the theatrical season perhaps. In the city.
 Conveniences which are common in the country, such as ale suburban tel ephone make them accessible and con- venient tO neighbors, to cities, and are proving of wonderful value as well as comfort and increasing the willingness of city residents to move to and live permanently in country homes. City families are now turning to their coun- try homes earlier in tho spring, and thoJ Aht8Ef hhchD ioHhNE Ai ktfG AAll. III a few brief years the city house will become the temporary home.
 It is not the very rich who are thus solely turning to country life; those who are in more moderate circum- stances have their inelinations direct ing them countryward also, and in A still larger degree, and whenever our boards of education see the necessity and the propriety of encouragine this purpose by giving the very best coun- try school facilities. then our country homes will indeed be popular. Our public school managers must wisely show disposition to encourage this growing tendency by doing everything in their power towards making public school improvements, and the country home will then become more and more possible and more and more desirable
 In addition to the telephone, which robs the country of it's isolation and brings neighbors as we'll as the coun- try and city so closely together. the use of gasolene and acetyiene engines ts enabling our country people to have the advantage of water works and gas and electricity in their own homes; and at a very reasonable price engines and piping with tanks. either of cypress or iron, can be located at every country farm at prices from s225 to $500 eacn These comforts and luxuries are be- ing accepted by our wisest farmers throughout Georgia and the South, and as their wonderful benefits and advan- tages are better and better understood they will grow in number and popu- iarity.
 Then the extension of the electric trolley cars, the use of the bicycle and the automobiles and the construction of better roads are becoming the rule throughout many sections of the coun- try, and they contribute to diminish and suppress the isolation and lone- liness that once made country life so objectionable and regarded as intol- erabie monotonous This movement for good roads should be encouraged by taxation wherever needed and the good results will soon be manifest.