Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1918 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE]

Home Town Helps

ENJOY LIFE IN SMALL TOWN Residents There Escape the Discomforts That Are Inevitable Accompaniments to Crowded City. “Americans do not yet know how to Hye,” is the constant cry of visiting Europeans. The spectacle of people of wealth and culture enduring the indignities and discomforts of existence in hired quarters in a crowded city is to them the proof of this, says a writer in New York Sun. But we are learning. The pioneers from the city to the suburbs have gradually created the things they needed to make life livable from a social as well as from a material standpoint, and now life in any up-to-date suburban locality is as full and complete as in the most favored city. Take my own locality. We have golf, tennis and squash clubs. We have literary, musical and art societies. We have churches of the leading denominations. We have assembly rooms for public and semipublic meetings. During the year there are nu-. merous public entertainments concerts, lectures, amateur theatricals, where the audiences are like one large family gathering, and for the idle evenings we have the inevitable moving picture house. We are 32 minutes from the subway station at Grand Central, the heart of the club and amusement district of New York. We get trains in or out every few minutes during the busy hours —less frequently but still sufficient at other times. The rent which we pay to ourselves as landlord (and we Insist upon paying ourselves 6 per cent net on our cash invested) is less than one-half of what we would pay for the same living space in the city, in addition to which, we have light, air, space and that freedom which money cannot purchase in the city.