Show problem of laving the strong yearning for the life oi of washington or of new york is the mark of a centripetal tendency which is reasonable and easily understood the same thing appears in all rich countries the well to do english try to spend part of the year in london the french in paris they do it and keep their country homes besides our westerners have a more difficult problem they are much farther away from their social and political centers than most of the french or the english and the idiosyncrasies ol of the american climate complicate their home comings consider the case of the rich people of the great ohio cities the cleveland man who has hai struck standard oil or politics or something and has become solvent beyond the dreams off of avarice develops a lawful desire to live at the center of things and builds a house in new york or washington which is his headquarters from november to may he still hs h s a house in cleveland clevela ind but when is he going to live in it not in summer for his neighbors who stay at home in the winter come east to the seashore in the summer he may find cleveland attractive jn im the late spring and the early fall but the chances are that his family will tell him that it pay to travel so far and open and close a house for such short periods the upshot of it must tend to be that the shutters stay up on the cleveland mans house in cleveland and that he lives elsewhere and merely goes home to vote or on errands of business and obyr aby he give it up altogether because considerations of trade or s sentiment or of politics forbid it pays to be a representative man and hail bail from somewhere and ohio is a good state to hail from harpers weekly |