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Do you understand, Louella?” Being a mother and a career woman myself, I said I most certainly did — and I meant it. THROUGH the window I could see the tree-shaded lane that serves as the driveway to the house. Big oak trees, the kind you see in northern California, line the lane. When I remarked about the beautiful trees, Esther said, “They helped sell the house to us — but it was the kitchen that really did the trick. I’ll show it to you.” That kitchen! It’s just wonderful— like the old-fashioned kitchens that belonged to our great-grandmothers. A whole corner was taken up by a brick fireplace and there was also a comfortable window seat with cushions covered in chintz. Plants were growing gaily and colorfully in every window. “But where do you cook?” I asked, not seeing any visible stoves. Then she took me to a place partitioned off by a gate where two stoves, electric and gas, stood side by side. “I have to have the gate there,” Esther explained, “because Benjy is old enough to get into everything and I love to cook.” The Gages use the kitchen for their breakfast room, in fact they eat most of their meals there. “I hate a regular dining room,” Esther laughed. The house has two rooms upstairs, as I found out on our tour — Esther’s and Ben’s apartments. The nurseries are on the first floor so the nurse doesn’t have to wear herself ragged running up and down the stairs all the time. “You know,” went on Esther, “we always keep the children with us. I honestly believe a baby gets lonesome living in shutup nurseries as far away as possible from its parents so they won’t be bothered by crying. Not ours! As you see — the baby stays down here in his cradle all day with Ben and me when we are home.” I wondered out loud what a pediatrician would say to that arrangement? 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