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Show BIGHT UP TO HANDLE. Southeastern Portion of City Dons Its Spring Clothes. The most exacting stickler for order and cloanllness would find llttlo to object ob-ject to In tho manner In which tho southeastern south-eastern section of tho city wont about tho work of donning Its spring clothes on Arbor day. This, of courso, Is speaking gonerally, for thero arc still unseemly blots and blurs, a few of them, on the fair picture which tho all-btit-unanlmous spirit of progress has, aa yet, failed to oraae. Thcro are billboards surrounded by beautiful lawns, garbage hcap3 adjacent adja-cent to violet beds and ferneries, rubbish piles In close communion with tno twining ivy and tho hyacinth. Bill Boards Are Worst. Tho billboards are considered the worst, for, behind tnem, tho up-to-dato residents of the section recognize the brazen mercenary mer-cenary spirit which no consideration of poetic sontlmcnt or common decency can abate or hinder that squeczed-up spirit of grab and have and hold and kcop which brook3 no Interference and han Its & roper home In a sJLy. Instead of In a cautlful Amorlcan city, striving to be decent and clean. Thus they think, these progressive citizens of the southeastern section of Salt Lake, and as they think thoy prune and plant and mow and scatter scat-ter seeds with many dark glances In tho direction of the billboards and garbage heaps. More Attractive Pictures. But thoso aro the blots and blura. Shut your eyes to thorn and all Is bloom and blouse blou-se m, clinging? vino nnd nodding fern. In all that section lying cast and south of Second South and Main street every Imaginable gardening- Implement waa In requisition during tho wholo day. Trcoa wcro being- planted, trimmed or felled, an tho requirements of the occasion demanded. Lawns were being mown, potted plants net out, walks bordorcd with inoraus, marguerites and cineraria, vines trailed over stoop nnd entrance way, hedges lined out between rcaldenco holdings, and tho general work of homo beautifying was going forward with a swing and good will that spoke eloquently for tho throbbing motive of progress behind It all. Joy for the Juveniles. Even tho llttlo children caught the spirit of tho thing and vntercd with vim and vigor Into tho work. With sharpened lath and shovel-shaped shovel-shaped shlnglo they dug and delved and laid out mighty areas of lawn and landscape. And right seriously did they look upon tholr transformation trans-formation of arid wastes Into blossoming gardens; gar-dens; and right courageously did they dofend theso self-rama gardens against tho Intruder from without, for a tiny tot of 3. with grlm-vlsagcd grlm-vlsagcd front and belligerent attitude stood up a Trlbuno mnn who sought to pry Into his Agricultural secrets with this "You dts dare to step on my vllot bed and you'll see what you'll g5tl" Just what tho fate of tho hnp-lesa hnp-lesa prowler would havo been had ho committed tho awful crlmo pointed out must over remain a mystery-Florists mystery-Florists Have Good Day. Tho florists, moro especially those who make a specialty of growing plants and shrubs, noted n marked Improvement In business for tho day. tho demand being tho heaviest of tho year. In addition to planting vines and bushes many of tho residents of the section further beautified tholr premises by tho nrtlsUc nr-rangoment nr-rangoment of cut flowery, carnations, roses and Mlta predominating. These, as a rule, wcro hung in windows or disposed about porch pillars and lawn arbors, tho effects being In all Instances highly pleasing. In vlow of tha extensive area embraced within with-in tho boundaries mentioned. It Is Impossible to oven designate the hundreds of residents who aro entitled to tho gratltudo of the wholo pcoplo for tho splendid work of homo beautifying beauti-fying which they so lntolllgcntly planned and so earnestly entered upon on Arbor day. |