Increased mobility of the members has also added to the facility with which a "social confirmation" can be attained within the class.

Within this select class the exemption from thrift is a matter so commonplace as to have lost much of its utility as a basis of pecuniary decency.

Therefore the latter-day upper-class canons of taste do not so consistently insist on an unremitting demonstration of expensiveness and a strict exclusion of the appearance of thrift.

So, a predilection for the rustic and the "natural" in parks and grounds makes its appearance on these higher social and intellectual levels.

This predilection is in large part an outcropping of the instinct of workmanship; and it works out its results with varying degrees of consistency.