The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1915-04-29
COnveniences For
Country Homes
Comforts of Rural Life
Surpass Those of
the Cities
(By Capt. T. F. Peck.

The happiness and comfort Of
thu human race center in the
home. The home has all to dc
with what life is to us, what we
get out of our stay on earth. This
is where mankind lives, where
they go to rest from their toll,
and by this, we may judge their
care of or in life. For ages young
and old, rich and poor have
crowded toward the cities simply
because the opportunities for
supplying the conveniences of
the home were better. The city
with its sewerage, its water sys-
tenn, its lighting plants and heat
ing apparatus has been the envy
of the country, time out of mind.
But thanks to the progress of
the age the country is fast catch
ing up with the city in the mat
ter of enjoyable things. We
would not have the reader think
for a minute that the thing that
makes life a joy and a pleasure
are anything like so universal in
the country as in the city, but
the idea we wish to convey is
that the conveniences Of the
country home are no longer an
unsolved problem as they were
fifteen or twenty years ago. The
progress of mankind is rapidly
placing the delightful things, the
modern conveniences, in reach of
the man on the farm.
Among these everlasting hills
the country home may be sup
piled in many cases at a less cost
than the city resident has to pay.
The difficulty in the years gone
by has been to provide the indi-
vidual plant at a cost that would
not in most cases be prohibitive.
Today the luXuries of the coun-
try home do not stop at hot and
cold water and sewerage. These
are essential, but the telephone
connecting country homes and the
city enables friends to exchange
friendly greetings is no small
thing in country life.
The rural mail is another mat
ter that compares favorably with
the free delivery of the city.
Then to add to all this comes the
automobile dividing the country
home from the city stores, the
theaters or churches only by so
many minutes. \
These are the things the city
people enjoy and there are some
things vouchsafed to country life
that the city has not room for.
These are the fresh milk and
butter, the cream and the butter
milk. The fresh vegetables and
fruit, all home grown, together
with these tempting rations
come poultry and eggs. But the
farmer takes these things as a |
matter of course. He has always |
had these on the farm and does
not make an ado over them. They |
are things that have ever been
the pleasure of the country class. |
The people of the city don't know
what good living is when it |
comes to crisp stuff for table use.
They are further off from the
enjoyment Of the delightful than
the farmers wife who is without |
the equipment that makes life SO
easy. The city conveniences
must ere long be classed as home
wheter in city or town
or country, and must be sooner
or later regarded as necessities.
The family unaccustomed to
these things does not know their
value, but once they are intro
duced it seems impossible to get
along without them.
There are lots of well-to-do
people situated where water is
abundant and to these it will not
De an impossible thing. We have
plenty of companies now supply
ng country homes with light,
sewerage and hot and cold water
and all the people who can raise
he money are having them put
L. This is why we say the coun-
5ry is coming to it's own.