| Show WOMANS WORK IN URBAN IMPROVEMENT Y American landscapes anti MANY MASY MA cities anti towns loans tOIl nil are character characterized by II barren ugliness Tour lets cone COMA cor home from Europe I and ex cx exclaim exclaim claim at tho the unsightliness of our streets and our roads our lack of ot parks stat statues ues fountains trees treM and aryl flowers and of all nil that makes the outdoor view attic attractive attractive tive live Natures Naturel creations creation must be he restored ere there thero will be anything to make our country attractive to tho the aesthetic sense American men mat arc are ns us yet ot mostly too busy bUllY with money getting to attend to this beautifying of ot city anti village Women omen have time and It U rests with them thom to rebuild what the time pioneers de tie destroyed While White we ought perhaps to think molt t than ever Her about leaven heaven Ilea ven we ought to prove Noe we 0 sire lire thinking of at It by hy trying to realize It on earth corth The beautiful city Is It but the per perfect feet Ideal of or all the he beauty we know hero herd gardens and und fountains and nd streets shaded by Loy h trees trell of or sweet fields n arrayed In living green 1 Blight winded Willed Urdu will flash to and andro fro ro amid those trees nf ot paradise we WB i believe bolle and the alt all will throb and thrill with their songs pong Mn of ot celestial sweetness s Why not root hero here on earth T TIt It Is for far woman to help realize fan un this earth at least n 1 part of ot the natural beauty we are d to associate a with the thought of o heaven Women teachers may ma do to their share thare of at the work by arousing In tho the children a desire for tor clean beautiful streets and imd for planting trees and flowers In public places Club women are beginning to be a power They can do 10 snore more than han any others by arousing Interest IP I ii the beautifying of ot cities clues aid towns Newspapers will gladly lend aid Ihl r to any measure for tor pub public public lic Ilc Improvement Club women through committees may R I get I t subscriptions and appropriations for Cur the tie work they tho may provide free Irle lectures with stereopticon tens of ot th the city and other win v Among Arnon the first things to b h consider considered ed ell ore arc the streets and sidewalks before all 1111 In respect to gi good od paving and nd clean cleanliness cleanliness liness After cows COWl and pigs ceased to tobe tobe toha be ha allowed at lit large In ill American streets streett the yard fence tonce gradually tell fell Into dis this disuse disUse use ties and the grass plots In front of ot tho the houses hoults became ft II continuous lawn greatly Improving the time aspect of ot a 11 street treet Rut nut ut in fiR yet yat y t the streets even In places where there Is plenty of ot room for tor trees tree are shaded Tho The public squares of ot American towns town ought to b be shaded grass Krall carpeted ar eted laid off ort In walks walk and nd adorned each aoh by b a Il plashing fountain toun ln bordered with flowers Such Sucha a II square should ho lie th the vista toward which the street Views converge Or a n statue a church a u public building that U Is lightly sightly architecturally may easy be placed where It will meet the tha eye which looks toward the tha end of or n a street tre t Th These Thu 36 I Improvements take not notto to sa much nuch money mony as ai labor and persistent p peral tent agitation and Ind effort and public spirited women omen may achieve lohle them then all allA allA allA A well known club woman Mrs Clarence Hums Burns of ot New York has taken for tor one of ot h her r tasks tho the providing of ot pretty public playgrounds playground for tor children during summer vacations She Inter Interested Interested ested the time city authorities In her scheme and Ind nd ruined rained her point she chic hiD bao waked up liP organizations among her own sex lex till she he now nov has han women behind her In lit 11 her der work She has haB accomplished marked good In the congested unbeautIful districts distrIct of ot New York city elly Mrs Hums In Is certain that very every err woman ought to be Interested In n municipal 1 management and she oho sect sack great Kreal things ah ahead ad for tor women In public work A few tew American cities are already alive to the time necessity of ot civic adornment adorn adornment adornment ment Buffalo and Cleveland In sum Bum summer Bummer mer r rt ra ery very beautiful and may b he taken as an Illustrations of ot what can bedone be bedone done clone and nn must be done If It residents of ot American towns are aro ever to become proud of at the places they live In K It there Is hI anything that It Is within the sphere of ot womans activity It Is work working workIng working ing for tor th the realization of ot the city beau beautiful on en earth BLADES |
