TRANSPORTATION

On the practical side a question of large importance is that of
transportation. The fast trains may make the run in twenty minutes,
but we shall not always catch the fast trains, and the others may take
forty. Morning and evening they should be so frequent that we need not
lose a whole hour on a "miss." In stormy weather we must find shelter
in the station, comfortable or uncomfortable. On the husband's monthly
ticket the rides may cost only a dime; when the wife and her visiting
friends go to the matinée each punch counts for a quarter, and four
quarters make a dollar. To the time of the train must be added the
walk or ride from the downtown station to the office, and the return
walk from the home station. A near-by electric line for emergencies
may sometimes save an appointment. None of these things alone will
probably give pause to our plans, but all will weigh in our general
satisfaction or disagreement with suburban life.



THE BUTCHER, THE BAKER, AND THE CANDLE-STICK MAKER

Not every suburb is blessed with a perfectly healthful water supply.
We must make sure of that. We want to find stores and markets
sufficient to our smaller needs, at least, and to be within city
delivery bounds, so that the man of the house shall not be required to
make of himself a beast of burden. We hope, if we must employ a cook,
that the milkman, iceman, and grocery boy will prove acceptable to her,
for the policeman is sure to be a dignified native of family. We want
the telephone without a prohibitive toll, electric light and gas of