Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-21 | Page 12 | Play Adjuncts in Home Yard Solve Problem

Play Adjuncts In Home Yard Solve Problem By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON DARTON Water Vater water everywhere and not a drop to drink Ground ground everywhere and not an Inch to play on Thus runs Canto the Fifth of the modern p poem cm The first four tour concern public playgrounds of oC which there are too few apartment houses in crowded areas with no thought of hot little cliff dwellers houses without yards long ong suburban streets of beautiful lawns awns and flower beds with ed off keep-off signs The latter cant can't be helped because because be be- cause owners who take pride in property not only have a right to safeguard It it but are doing community community service in beautifying their land and The fifth article deals with available yards for own chil chil- dren A few days ago I saw the ideal plan for dividing off the family plot so that mother and dad could have their heir share for lawn and flowers and nd the children their own domain as well velI Well We'll skip the geranium beds and ana andily ily pool and go on toward the little white picket fence fence It it wasn't a big bigard yard open ard open the small gate and step inside A space 18 feet or so 80 square was walled on two sides by a hedge on onne one ne by a vine-covered vine garage wall walland walland walland and on the garden side by the pIcket fence In one end w were re a sand pile ile a swing a sliding board and a pipe with a shower Scattered about were dolls dolIs balls blocks locks and the usual toys including a doll house that also served for storage overnight Two little girls almost minus clothes lothes were playing there happily one one a mere baby I I call this perfect remarked this visitor admiringly Not a athing athing I thing to get hurt on And everything every every- every I thing seems to be here A sort of sublimated play Exactly assented the proud young oung mother I 1 nagged at Chare Charlie Charlie Char- Char lie e for a year before he got my idea We had the space shut in on two sides ides All we needed was the fence and nd s some me more hedge Charlie CharIle had hadie the ie fence made in sections and put jut putt ut It t up himself The hedge was cheap and easy Its It's t's ts growing fine T I dont don't have to worry about them falling off porches perches now or wandering out on the Ute street I have jave work to do and I 1 can turn them loose here until Im I'm finished They cant can't reach the gate lock or orie orthe orthe the ie shower valve I 1 turn that on them for awhile on hot days If I didn't have that yard Id I'd have to keep baby In her little pen nearly all aIt II the time and she doesn't get exercise enough in it Dogs cant can't get et in the yard and besides its it's easIer asler to shoo off older and some- some times troublesome children this way too toe 00 other Its something to suggest to mothers 1 I remarked And with my hearty Indorsement indorsement indorse indorse- ment ment said she If they thoy only knew what a grand relief it is So many good lots go to waste it seems to me a plan well worth try try- ing If the fence is a problem theres there's chicken wire wire strong strong cheap and durable And anybody can plant a hedge Indeed its it's hard to te keep a good hedge down down or or even one not so good