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Show I f Home aTow, i : pr; TTITOSJUM & Helps LOOK TO NEXT GENERATION HENRY Talk Many Reason Advanced for Super vieed Play in Rural Communities of the Country. Couutrj tueni and rural communities nerd recreational activities eveo more than citiea do, according to C Seymour Bullock, supervisor of play grounds. New London, Conn, whe made a strong plea for supervised play In rural communities at the season ol the Recreation congress at Rich mood, Va "boys who were leaders when was a boy are leaders now when I have become a man The fellow who led in the games, the fellow who made the first dive whnwF earns lo the rim of the 'old swimming hole, U the on who, for better or for worse, has shown the power of Initiative This law of leadership turn le has the greatest argument in favor of su pervlead play If those born leaders af thatr kind are trained to lead in the right direction, the world will be bet ter whan this neil gaoaratlon of boyi pave takes their place among mao. "Nowadays whan this country boy leader goes from bis rural home tc Ihe city ha brings with him a fund ol vkaltt and physical strength. But Is he klmaelf, narrow and edlen born by his own surplus energy and, love of exeitsment Into the wont of the citys temptations The country offers nothing for its lanaly boys and girls to offset the lure of the city. Schools and churches have aot done their part. "Every country school should tot low the example already set by a few Let the country school Institute supervise play at recess and after school hours, so that boys and girls may learn sociability and altruism by play Ing together and helping younger children to play. "There should be also a large building for athletic and social gatherings It will coet money, but it will save many boys and girls from vice and rime "It is estimated that Connecticut expends 1110,000 yearly in earing for her criminal Better devote part of this sum to saving thosd whose development into criminals or good oltisans depend largely upon good recreation, r the lank of It HOWLAND 1 j (Hood a pardon - With a , Talw anS and o'clock. Tfied roofs of a soft red rise like flowers amid the foliage of the trees; thatched roofs of a dove tint go sloping down close to the ground as if they would slip o(T ( the cosy houses juL as Perhaps the ideal of garden cities approachable in this country. The subject at least affords much material Is number of factories he Survey, noved from the center of the city to Norwood and Oaktoy under favorable But their employes :i mi instances. (ailed to move with them. Lee than 10 per cent, live in the two suburbs r near by. Only a handful may walk and from their work. Why? as Mr. Taylor believe, there was no semblance of adequate town planning to embrace the factory work-in- . While the factory managen nade sufficient provision tor the die ant future of industry, "a rirw of oommuulty development la en .Irely lacking. Th abode of industry when land was was thus assursd :beap. Similar assurance for homes 'or the workers away from the congested Cincinnati waa nobody's con sera. So Mr. Taylor conclude that "one neighborhood recreation center sucb ie Chicago now has to the number ot learly twenty, might, with intelligent leadership, solve the problem. More pver, "The removal of the factory to ihe rim of the big city ie not an ade jnate solution of our problem If it leaves the worker's home ,n congestion, or even if it transports it to a region whore the whole fabric pf community life la left to remain nndeveloped." Mistake undoubtedly will be mads In the development of the garden city Idea, but they may well lead to final success in the movement d civic-industri- School Gardena and Societies. School gardens continue to receive a constantly increasing share of pub lie attention. Prom very many part of the country reports reach us bear tng witness to this widespread inter sst There can be no question but that the movement should ba encour aged by all who are In any way con II cerned In practical horticulture. the younger generation has implanted In It an intelligent interest in garden routine work, together with an Intel with growin Hgent acquaintance plants., there will not be the need ol so much missionary work in garden art in the future a there has been in the past Kill Dandellsns sr Bs'Pthed. Failure to root out dandelions win be a misdemeanor punishable by fine, in Omaha, Neb, If an ordinance favored by Mayor Dayman, passes ths city eoanciL Ths mayor declare dan delitnra pubHo-nulaanc- e and-saysi- s will go the limit to secure their ex termination. VOIWSt rASK,MS2TS2WT The captain promised breakfast in five minutes That was an hour and twenty minutes ago. The second cabin passengers are drinking gin The captain says the breakfast only waits for some cow to be milked near a lock The boat Is etill In a canal between high banks, which thrust on the view the ankles of the village girls who stand along the edge and look down philosophically, knitting; for their skirts are very The village girls are silhouettes against the sky Then a gig, with yellow wheels and a green box, flits by mysteriously and disappears behind the ridge And there Is nothing more. Ah, yes, It rains. The steamer crawls through the canal. Imped ed by the locks and dams. Here Is another Dutch girl She Is standing on the bank above our heads as we descend, a Dutch girl In a white kerchief starched percale cap, cream-colorecrossed upon her breast, with a black bodice, a blue skirt, wooden shoes and blue stockings The boat Is In a narrow river once again, With scenery green and clean, with sweet effects of light In this peculiar air a milky, velvety light-n- ear a comic opera village More village girls, the milk and blush rose blondes of Zeeland, with their silky masses of pale golden hair, Immaculately clean They look so solid, tight and tidy, do these little Dutch girls in their stiff bodices Out In the open Ooester Skelt, three miles across, the yellow brownish water scarcely 'marks Itself against the bsnks of yellow green, low dikes, with long, long lines of trees, whose roots assist to bold the soil together. We hug the edge. Along the bank there coughs and snorts a dinky little ancient automobile. As it nears we Bee it is conducted by a pretty girl In white. She looks like a bride! Who Is she? The villagers cron out, rejoicing What Is it? What is he? Mystery. Now. there are always We steam onward these long lines of trees that stand like a grim regiment to defeat the floods of the encroaching where thousands -sea. It is the Verdronken all the countryand towns and perished villages side In 1532, when a dike burst There Is a short Canal de' Keeten At a village where the captain sjops to .get his hair cut a fair biynboat girl sells us schnapps. Then the little steamer quits the subdivisions of the Schelde, meanders through the mazes of the Maas, comes through the Krammer and the to the wide Hollandsch Dlep, which has rough water and looks almost like. the sea. Once this bay was land, but long ago. In 1421, a tidal ware wiped out a hundred market towns anJ vil- -' lages, and upward of 100 000 people perished, .and the water stayed. Then soon it is tbelittlA Dorsche Kil, a very narrow stream (where the Prince of Orange was drowned In 1711), which takes us to the. broad and lovely Merwede. a double river, where the windmills of the landscape and the busy villages TOTTanff of HoHandcne hastead ot Now- - UTs raThTh g Dbft,'CrDorlreetrtts "ths -first fine town. It is the cleanest land! The very cows are scrubbed down with soap and nibbed d one-hors- e d Yol-kera- k Jglafa the dove-colore- d shawl slips off the shtulders of a Quaker girl If there be any left j who wear d shawls. I am thinking if Philadelphia and Penn's Manor. Here there are Tillages that do not know the railway and their daighters do not know the A modern fashions Tillage girl buys one fine gown and It will last,ler fifteen years. Do you thing she Is not Just l nice beneath It? These girls spar it expense on their best gowns They have red linen and real lace and fine silk stockings If ttey choose to wear them, ahd each girl has a helmet, which Is worth from 90 to $300. i It begins to rain i This helmet is a thin and supple shell of gold which snugly flts ths head. Sometimes it is scoop shaped to let ths back hair be colled In a knot, sometimes they plgt their back hair In two long queues, which hatg down before the ear on each side of the fate; but the gold helmet must be always there, fiough It be only seen to shimmer in the sunlight through the meRhes of a kind of night-cap- , allotting snugly, which may be of linen or of lace, ik which case It has ruffles Each girl has her go$ helmet, even those w ho go to service up in Rotterdam, though when they grow sophistlcafcq, citified and shame-facethey first put on city botnets over their gold helmets and white nlghtcapi and then later on lock up their caps and helm jn their bureaus and take to smart pink cotUa prints for gowns and ear coquettish ruffles Rauiy tne on thelr heads, for all the world uke London chamber maids. These helmets, homed on each side of the forehead with long tsistsd prongs of gold and dating back to when ths Germanic tribes were struggling with the Romans, are. together with the bomb-shapeskirts, aeon bound to disappear and figure only, like the Peasant costume of the north of France, in charity bazaars on city girls instead of country girls. who are abandoning them for flimsy trash three yearg behind the cur7 rent mode. The air is sultry, liks a gentle steaming In the laboring noonday sun Cloeds rising above clouds around the whole boriam aeet at the lenlth Iike a dome. There Is no of peaceful hamlets. pretty, tidy. busy. ca ,n or make an afternoon call. lips. Where ' to? Wfcst fory Mystery, steam on. And there is nothing more The river widens and Ow windmills and the sawmills give place to shipping. . Xhen the gqliat spires of a city full of little unartisttc churches show themselves, and we approach the seventh commercial port of Europe, The captain says It looks uk ran Prom boozy Belgian Anterp Rotter. dam and its mild tboroughfareitoutch e aH tbe from the continental ystem Amer. 00(. lean respectability. - Ths ton ( Jhe Kiris look at you with straight eyes,prjun as tnnocen f -- coquetry asHambs; they. ere-n- ot tlkB'Trenclr girls walking with their dramas, casting down their eyes consciously Would French girl play dove-colore- d d " dli-tanc- L.-- K el W-- A -1 Copenhagen or other promiscuous kissing games? Here they kiss all the afternoon, as innocent as little billing birds. They kiss In the rain; And it rain often. In speaking of the handsome quays they call the ttoompjes Tfnonr"mte tuaa any nary waterfront), the guidebook says that visitors may enter and inspect the vessels without objection provided they do not get in the wajr of the work in handWe did not enter and inspect, but I can well believe we might have done so. We did walk Innocently into the garden of the most aristocratic club of Rotterdam and mingled freely with the smart set who were holding tulip competition, where the heroine was a blonde, blue-eyefourteen-year-olgirt who had grown We were only made an apple green variety! aware of our position when we drank curacao and bitters offered by a waiter In blue broadcloth and a yellow vest, who Refused to take our money, we not being club members Rotterdom Is so airy, open, bright, so shady, flowery and well watered that Its citizens may sing Canal are everywhere, and the canals are beautirul They give a park like look to all the streets bordered by lawns, garnished by shrubs and trees and tulips And the citizens, from out their kitchen windows or thelrparior windows, when they have company for dinner, hook up fresh fish in. profusion, which adds a element to their blithe freedom. Should a list be made of continental cities which have no great sights, no monuments, no ruins, no collections In a word, no treadmill tourist round the town of Rotterdam would take a place of honor In It. although she has a maritime museum, a picture gallery and a statue of Erasmus In the market you ran make a study of tbs bodices and headgear of the peasants Catching the Dutch taste for still life you may muse on mphonles of color In the produce. Here are the fish stalls where 11 the shades of white silver white, blue white, white shaded with bronze green, white with metallic reflections unite In a Here all the tints of clear scale of harmony green are heaped together In the vegetables, melodiously accompanied by the fragrance of the which sing together with the fruits In flower the most diverse color tones Though Rotterdam is a great port and an Important manufacturing center, my best impressions of the pleasant city are connected with a cafe chantant. a park Ihe markets and the resiThe great manufactures are shipdential Street building. tobacco factories, sugar refineries and manv great distilleries, especially of gins and Dutch liqueurs The more Important articles of commerce are coffep sugar tobacco, rice and spices It is the penth port of Europe. and Again and again the vision of a helot ed fit V rises up befqre the writer's .docild lmagina'lon and affects him to the point of tears the citv of Philadelphia. Pa, which. I see. must he a fc thTnl moving picture today of what New It 'h the city of homes paf York was In 1750 excellc'e, and It resembles Rotterdam, and Rotterdam resembles It The wearied tourist seeking for a snug retreat In which to raise a beard will find Rotterdam a second Philadelphia. And looking from the watch tower of 8t. Lawrences chunh. down on the tranquil panorama; on the river and the suburbs; on the red brick houses and the streets 'so straight and where the children play jackstones on the front doorsteps, and their .big sisters play bull in the ring and kiss the boys.pn the sidewalk; to look down, I say, on the slow but yellow trolleys wbose falnt Jingle rises as from some secure blameless and fruitful sheep field; to admire the smoke of manufactorlesand police tA labor-pavin- talk-ta- lk Her voire, once sweet and low. By talk talk talk Had been ruined long ago; He longed for a chance to run. Hla nerves were all upset, In the morning she'd begun. At night she waa talking yet. We men with slaters dear. We men with mothers and wives. Why can't we get them to understand They are wearing out our lives? Talk, talk, talk. About malda and money and dress TUI we get ao sick of It that somettsH We give up to churlishness. sir cr oid AixsrmmTr for Employee. A longing All hla breast Talk talk, talk! With nothing worth while to say; He waa bored to death by her waste breath, But she steadily talked away. Talk talk talk Unwilling to ever cedes. And talk, talk, talk-l- ie longed for a moment's peace; He tried lo break awey. He told her he needed a walk. But. with nothing st all to any, She kept up her stream of talk. Factory Plan Can Bo Adequate That Doe Not Provide for (or study. Of recent data ia such a study ot :wo Cincinnati suburbs by Oraham Homey a Taylor, who dUcussa it in for.) A GARDEN CITIES FOR WORKERS Homo Is applied that waa raspy and wor With a tongue that needed a rest, A woman talked to a man who let vol,- g well-know- n cry. "It Is Philadelphia Philadelphia, for the outside of the platter Is so clean! , Talk. talk, talk, 1111 wad i - 1,1 w1 vhrtftk Talk, talk, Ulk, H got no chance to speak; Fhe steadily talked awey Never thinking before ah spoken Till her voice, so sweet one day, Had become a rasping croak. With nerves atl frsssled and ear That ached from the awful strain, He ran away and she sat In tears. And her breast was Ailed with pain. Talk talk talk She talked to herself and said: Oh, woe Is me and wronged am It He la false! He Is falaet 1 wonder why It Is that his lovt Is dead!" Never fiald IA hear you hare been saying yo would take greed delight in attending my funeral, "I have never said of th kind." I think I should prefer to bellsvo the man who told me." Very well; believe him, if you liks; but 1 never aaid it 1 should not think of permitting rayaelf to bs aeea at your funeral. I HIS PROMOTION. "When I wa working on a salary," said t h head of the Arm. "I was always ths first one in th In establishment (he morning and last one to ieavo it at night.. "Was you? replied the office boy. "How long did you keep it up? How long did I keep it up? For twenty-tw- years. o Gee! It took you a long time to coax the boss to let you marry hi daughter, didnt It? How Splendid. "Handsome! she exclaimed. he was so handsome! He walked a soldier, his voice was heavenly; had dark, wavy hair and teeth an actor. On, like he liks Hard Part. it very hard to fly? asked the sweet maiden. Not a bit, replied the aviator, but it la often distressingly hard to quit. Ia Age. After s maq gets past fifty he b gins to insist (hat a man la not as old aa he looks, but as young as he acts Wisdom. A man who ia worth more than 000.000 can get any commonplace ft r mark accepted as an epigram. Thinking and Talking. It la easy to talk without thinking but it la an art to think without talk ing. Never. cause la never permanently " injured by a bad A good ma.' |
