Returning to home life: One does not have to be long in Canada before discovering that nothing is more unpopular in the Dominion than rent-paying, whether for land or for a house. Every householder wants to own his home, and the powers that be in the State Governments and in the municipalities encourage this ambition. It is this desire to own the home that accounts for the ubiquity of the Real Estate agent, who swarms all over Canada. No sooner is it decided to lay out a town, and the municipality is created and invested with authority, than the Real Estate man puts in an appearance. He snaps up the tit-bits in the way of lots along the lines of the streets and the roads that are being laid out in the town planning. He is waiting for the influx of population and knows that there will be an increasing “home” hunger. Store-keepers will come, with wives and children; building contractors with their foremen and staffs of workmen; banks with their managers, cashiers and clerks; branches of Insurance and other companies; lawyers, doctors, and the like; all sorts and conditions of men, middle-aged and young, migrate from the older Canadian cities, young fellows irresistibly attracted westward by the fascination of the new, emigrants from the States, Great Britain and the Continental countries. The married men will want comfortable houses as soon as possible. The young bachelors will want “diggings.” “Rooming-house” keepers will be laying themselves out to attract boarders of both sexes. There is no fear that suitable lots for homes will lack inquirers. There will be quarters for cheap houses, better houses, and the best houses, to suit the various social positions. If there is a river running through or by the town, the bankside lots, away from the business or industrial quarters, will be in demand for villas with gardens—the villas in the Prairie capitals, and such cities as Medicine Hat and Calgary, following very likely “bungalow” or Californian models. On the cheaper lots, at first, the houses may be only “frame,” run up at small cost, to be replaced later by brick and stone. On the outskirts of the towns tiny frame cottages may be built by two or more young fellows who will do their own housekeeping, enjoying the independence and the Robinson Crusoe conditions. This is an excellent way of learning how to do without things, and many such young fellows, by having to cook, clean, and do everything for themselves, are in training for model husbands, ready to help their future wives in the most diverse and practical ways. The Real Estate man knows them all, and caters for all. His voice quivers with sympathetic sentiment when he dilates on the ideal situation of the lot for a home—five minutes from a projected public park or recreation ground, and only three minutes from the street car line. Some purchasers of lots put up houses to let furnished, and in a new Prairie city they make a very good thing of it, but every Canadian wants to be his own