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Excerpt from House Hints: A Practical Treatise Describing Every Essential Detail Pertaining to Site, Location, Arrangements, Construction, Plastering, Heating, Plumbing, Lighting, Decorating and Furnishing of the House
Suburbs The opportunities for securing a suburban home are ifai'r'ly numerous. Capital has. Recognized a profitable field in'opening up tracts of ground a few miles distant from the city, to lure the domestically inclined back to nature. The railroads and trolleys have added to the possibilities, and there. Is a distinct and grow ing tendency on the part of young couples to live out of town, or W 'e're they can have space, air and light for themselves and their chil dren. To-'d'ay the small house is more seriously considered than ever before. In the suburbs of our great cities and of many of the smaller to'wn's, this fact is illustrated forcibly by the style Of house Which during the last decade has been gradually superseding the cottage of earlier times.
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