Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-05-19 | Page 4 | Make the Back Yard All Front Yard

U . JMI III! lllTiP- - 1 -" - .- . - - -I. . I - III I Z3 C::::'; Ycrd AH Trent YcrJ. : TLe Telegram has heretofore said to its readers: 'Hake the back yard all front yard." It is gratifying gratify-ing to note 'that many citizens of Salt Lake are manifesting a keen interest 1n the question of artistic artis-tic nd beautiful homes." But much yet remains to te done Along this line of civic beauty. The conditions condi-tions of .our. municipal government are such that it is useless to expect that anything can be done in the way of public improvements' until- a new Council fcas control of municipal affairs. . for this reason if for no other the owners of homes fchould work zeal-. zeal-. ously to make theia such beauty, epots that the next Council will be educated to realize the necessity of street and. other. public improvements by contrast. And there, is no more reason wliy the back yard should bo csed as a dumping ground for rubbish, should "be allowed to grow. p'p to weeds and un-triramed,.trees un-triramed,.trees aiid. shrubbery .than, there is cause to maintain the front yard in the same manner. The effect of drawing a line through one's grounds at .'-which all effort to observe the principles of taste and beauty ceases is similar to allowing a great ar rtist to paint one-half a picture and leave the remainder re-mainder of the canvas blank; it reminds one of a man wearing a silk hat and a dress coat and walking walk-ing the streets barefooted. There are scores of ILoraes in Salt Lake where a neatly trimmed lawn, carefully pruned trees and well kept flower beds end in an .unsightly patch of tangled weeds, grass . and bushes that is Bimply an ugly blot on the face of a beautiful landscape. : If there is to be any uplifting up-lifting of the public taste, any wholesome growth tf the artistic spirit, it must come from the atmosphere atmos-phere of. harmony that pervades and surrounds the "homes of the people. A brief, bright glimpse of beauty, broken by the sight of places so ugly that "they would burn a hole in the memory of an imbecile imbe-cile is worse than jangling discords in a masterpiece master-piece of music and can be productive of nothing but a perrersion of the artistic sense. Keep the back yard and the front yard in harmony with each '; 'Other. J . ' . : 4 ;"