CHAPTER IV.
At the House on Fairlands Heights As my friend the social scientist would say; it is a phenomenon peculiar to urban life, that the social strata are more or less clearly defined geographically.
That is,--in the English of everyday,--people of different classes live in different parts of the city.

As certain streets and blocks are given to the wholesale establishments, others to retail stores, and still others to the manufacturing plants; so there are the tenement districts, the slums, and the streets where may be found the homes of wealth and fashion.
In Fairlands, the social rating is largely marked by altitude.

The city, lying in the lap of the hills and looking a little down upon the valley--plebeian business together with those who do the work of Fairlands occupies the lowest levels in the corporate limits.

The heights are held by Fairlands' Pride.

Between these two extremes, the Fairlanders are graded fairly by the levels they occupy.