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Show CLEAN LP. Despite the bum weather we arc having it is safe to say that spring is really here, and there can be no doubt that the dead grass and half rotted leaves upon the lawn should be raked oil and burned. The grass will grow and cover them, but they will check its growth, and leave bare spots which will present a bad appearance. Hut It Is tho back yards and alleys that need attention. The winter's supply of tin cans Is scattered In tho back yards and alleys and In many of these cans lies geims of diseases. If you have no method of carting them olT to some mudholo which they will help to till, then dig a hole In tho back yard and sink them. Cleanliness Is a duty. Oardens, vegetable or lloral, plants and fruit tress arc luxuries, and require re-quire so much time to keep them free from weeds that their cultivation is not a duty. Hut It Is a duty to keep down weeds and thus preserve cleanliness. clean-liness. The city foliage is liberal, Its sidewalks arc in good condition and curbs and guttering hae been generously gener-ously laid. This Is as far as the public iiiirlinrltlpa ran art. Thi cannot compel beautiful lawns, nor can they meddle closely with a man's back yard unless complaint Is made, ltdevohes upon each Individual house occupant to do the rest. Usually the owner of a house will protect his property from tilth and weed, but f leniently tenants do not regaid appearances enough. They forgot their dutj to tholr neighbors, neigh-bors, and to tho city at large and will not beautify tho grounds because they arc renters, and may not remain thiough the season. People who have houses to rent sometimes forget that a little care for appeaiances will rent a house or retain a tenant. |