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Show CONTRAST IN BACK YARDS They Are Side by Side and of the Same Size, But What a Differencel I From d seventh story window wej looked down on two back yards. They; lie behind bouses o the same char-; acter; they are of one size; they are, boundod by the same tight board; fences. There the likeness ends, says the Milwaukee Journal. ' One yard is bare and brown, with, patches of mud here and there. At' the back are two or three eheds not yet actually out of repair, 1ut evidently evident-ly hasting thither. Against them is piled rubbish that has overflowed the original attempt to provide containers. The yard is a patch of ugiiuesa, a waste of the space. The other yard is carpeted with the bright fresh green of the season, through which ruus a neat walk to orderly or-derly sheds that show no signs of decaying de-caying from neglect. Two little trees give promise that some day there will be cool shade on warm summer afternoons, after-noons, a breathing efot in the midst of the downtown district. It isn't difficult to argue from the difference in these yards the difference . in the people who occupy the houses.-It houses.-It means a difference in habits of living, liv-ing, in Ideas of cleanliness and thrift,' and even beauty. Sometimes children play in the grassy yard, but the neigh boring alley is more attractive than, the muddy yard. And yet one might be made as attractive as the other,( not in a moment, for neglect has gone too far, but with a little care and attention, at-tention, which could be found as readily read-ily by the dweller in one house as the, dweller in the. other. |