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Excerpt from The Home Maker: A Book of Practical Household Hints and Menus The tremendous growth of our cities has done much in later years to neutralize this desire, but now the pendulum is swinging back with ever increasing certainty and once more there is being reasserted the inherent desire implanted in every human heart to have a home - not a mansion, or a castle, just a home. The terrific rate in the prices charged for flats and apart ments during the past two or three years would appear at first thought to be solely to the benefit of the landlords, but, improbable as it may seem, it has been of much benefit to the forthcoming generation of bridal couples by awakening them to the desirability and advantages derived in owning their place of residence. And it is this splendid awakening that is adding materially to the morale of the young home makers of the present day. The spirit of thrift is encouraged in this manner more than any other way possible. There is no reason why any wage-earner or salaried man should pay into the pocket of any landlord twenty, forty or sixty dollars a month for permission to live in a two-by-four apartment with nothing to show but a collection of rent receipts at the end of the year for the money paid out, when, on the other hand, the same amount applied on a home contract would give the tenant the privacy, privileges and independence of a home of his own with something of real and substantial value to show after a few years for the money he had ex pended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.