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90 The home that Uncle Sam wants boys and girls to begin thinking and planning for, even when they are in school, is as large as they can possibly afford to build it. It has some extra rooms so that there will be a place for the grandmother and grandfather if they should need to come and live in it. Sometimes the town wishes to pay for boarding an orphan child, or a motherless baby, or an old person in a private home instead of in a public one. It would be a great help if you could build your home large enough to take care of some of these people.

Uncle Sam would like to have you build your house in the country, where there is plenty of fresh air to breathe, and land on which to raise your own food. The work you do when you grow up may keep you in a city near a factory, or a mill, or a great office building. But the cities are very full of people now, and the country is a much more comfortable place in which to live. The railroads are doing all they can to make it possible for people to work in the cities and still enjoy the benefits of country life.

Boys like to dig caves, and every girl loves to play house. Uncle Sam wants to play with you, helping you to make the game real, and saving him the care and expense of building homes for people himself