The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-07
-, LEO HUGO, Director OF
Country Home League.

Efficiency is the order OF the day.
Why is IL then. that the same rules
which apply to business should not APP
PLY 10 the home? \ man In business
figures how he can use his capital to the
best advantage in order TO get the great
est return on the smallest investment.
Why shouldn't the same principles APP
ply to the establishment OF a home"
Tho question Of how good an invest
ment a country home is for the aver
age man can best he determined by Civ
ing au example o. two different schemes
%, living chosen by two young men OF
equal ability when taking on the re-
spousibiities Of family life. when both
Were about to be married they spent a
great deal # time planning their future
homes Their income was the same
S2.joO pc wear or about $50 per week
Each hai saved $3.50
In working out their home plan one
couple determined to live I'm the city.
while the other, having a great fond
ness for outdoor life, chose the Coun-
try.
The first couple just before being
married, after a long search n ally
found an apartment which measured up
To their IDEAS OF what their station in
l'fc would bc when they were married.
This apartment was I'm building which
had an imposing entrance. fine large
hall and "a boy in uniform to run the
elevator and attend the phone, OF
course the scheme Of this ornate en-
trance was not carried out throughout
the building. After leaving the first
floor the apartment was very similar
to hundreds Of others which they had
seen. but ON the whole the rooms, FIVE
in all were fairly wei laid out, and
even though only one OF them had dI-
rect access TO the light and air o: the
street ON which tie building faced, still
everything considered they ftlt IL was
as good as they could expect to get for
500. which was tho amount they had
determined. after careful tguring, they
could afford 10 pay. They felt it was
lust ~ good or perhaps a little better,
than any of their friends had and they
found that by spending $500 of the
$3.50 they could furnish it fairly well.
When II was all ready they were mar
Rcd and went off on a honeymoon on
which they spent about 5000.
From their point of view they had
made an exceptionally good start. The
frFt months rent WIS paid their place
was fully Furnished and they did not
owe dollar 90 anyone.
They lived very close TO a great
macy friends aud during the first year
tacy entertained and We're entertained
a great deal At the end Of the first
year ON 'AHtlllS hp hA''hlllf AI'9 lNhlIi
they had had good living lots OF fun.
and while they ha duot saved any
thing, stil they were much better OF
than most OF their young married
friends I'm that they had no debts. ON
the other hand, looking at It as a
cold business proposition, they We're no
better or than when they started Some
az the neighhors who had moved into
the same house with them were not
as pleasant as they might be and they
thought that perhaps they might find
another place which would be more
congenial
The second young married couple had
decided that they would rather live
In the country and went about thelr
home planning In "A little different way
They spent a great deal of time In going
through the different country life maya
zines, gathering together ideas for q
hone. ana finally decided on bullding
seven room and bath, semi-bungalow
IN which they could incorporate many
OF the attractive features which they
had cut out from the different jour
nails and pasted IN a scraphool, 10 b'
used for this purpose,
As tho time approached when the,
had decided 20 get married, they mad,
many trips out in the suburbs anC
finally decided that the place which
suited hest Was a new community which
within an hours ride from the younl
mans place OF business, They wer,
attracted to this place by tho homelik