Challenge of the Country a Study of Country Life Opportunity
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Did it. Likewise the remarkable increase of shopping by mail is due to the same cause. Though many such pur- chases are doubtless foolishly made, it is undoubtedly true that even the great catalogs of mail-order houses with their description of many of the comforts of modern civilization have been of great educative value and have stimulated the ambition of countless ccuntry homes for an improved scale of living. A. Recent rural survey of Ohio revealed the fact that pianos or organs were found ...in 25. 9% of the 300, 000 rural homes of the state, though only 4. 8% had bath tubs ! We venture to guess that many of these musical instruments were bought by mail, after the family had for many days studied the alluring catalogs of Chicago mail-order houses. Incidentally, it would be well for Chicago to sell more bath tubs ! The new rural civilization is rapidly requiring them. The Automobile, a Western Farm Necessity Often merely a luxurious plaything in the city, a saucy bit of flaunting pride particularly irritating to envious neighbors, the automobile finds great useful- ness in the country.
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