But to the average popular apprehension a herd of cattle so pointedly suggests thrift and usefulness that their presence in the public pleasure ground would be intolerably cheap.

This method of keeping grounds is comparatively inexpensive, therefore it is indecorous.
Of the same general bearing is another feature of public grounds.

There is a studious exhibition of expensiveness coupled with a make-believe of simplicity and crude serviceability.

Private grounds also show the same physiognomy wherever they are in the management or ownership of persons whose tastes have been formed under middle-class habits of life or under the upper-class traditions of no later a date than the childhood of the generation that is now passing.

Grounds which conform to the instructed tastes of the latter-day upper class do not show these features in so marked a degree.