Let us take up these points and examine them further. Our small children must play out-of-doors to get healthful sunshine and air and to get them out from underfoot in our small homes of today. All gardeners will recognize the need for keeping animals (except one's own) out of gardens, where they may trample flowers and ruin garden effects in other ways. Therefore, the back garden at least must be fenced. A good fence will provide a beautiful backdrop for the scene we set for our summer activities. Adults, too, are taking the air more frequently out-of-doors, and often we find that the children's play yard is enclosed beside the terrace, where it can be overseen from the house as well as from outside.

As we drive around the subdivisions which have sprung up about every city and many towns, we see how well fences can fulfill their function of extending the lines of the house, of providing an architectural finish to the property. Many a little row house in a subdivision, indistinguishable from its neighbors, suddenly achieves an identity when a good fence is added which harmonizes or contrasts with the house. The use of materials which lend pattern or texture, or both, is one of the most stimulating and interesting of the many new facets of the trend in home building. Look through the designs for fences which follow this section of text and see how the long lines are emphasized in some; how fences are kept low to give long, wide lines to a property which may be quite narrow. If the house is one of the long, low modern homes, this will harmonize with it and produce a visual width quite at variance with the actual measurements.

.... good fences-good neighbors
As plots of ground become increasingly smaller with the mushrooming expansion of suburban areas around our towns, Americans have felt a need which is met with the "Privacy Fence." This is not to be con- fused with what our grandmothers called a "spite fence"-a high fence built to show a neighbor the degree of contempt felt for him and all he represented.