Show HOME TOWN HELPS FLOWERS ON CITY STREETS idea long in vogue in europe with profit be introduced in this country 1 I wis man lid to rad read 1 in tile star thit th it the fidelity delity Vi brust company baa has placed flom er boxes on the dimp posts jn in front f its ito bull ling raid paid a kan han sag city fly roan mail who alto haa has been bern touring the furspan Fu 1 continent this summer 1 I hoe other business firing N will III tako take up tip the idea or that better vet et the city itself ite elf will nill adopt it N lobina has become one of the moat most cities in lit I 1 drope and tho the at that Is given to flo Ners 1 Is c one ne of the chief charms of ite its of beautiful I 1 that maximilian who ho was mas a brother of I 1 in ili fr frincis mals joseph in id the he idea of flowie boxes in tit tilt renter center ot or and along tho the cuilis front mexico hymi one sees the boxes on lamp polito in nil all the principal thor of ot jenna nowadays nona nou daye there Is nothing ird about the ar nt everything Is 18 according to a rigid putni mm in lit tho tile citha e employ have their ir bobet to cire for just is the tile men in lit the street lighting department have UK the same limps I imps to attend to the flowers are wilfred it ered even cleri day and fresh plants are placid in every ery box twice a week eek Illos souls in bright colors are used anti there are arranged with ith clinging plants such sucha as bander in ns jew and the old fashioned I 1 hi which hang in pretty strands below the box needless to wi bev the plant tenders must IIA nun with an eve eye to harmony and anti beauty and they work under the direction of chiefs who are artists to a less general extent other fu cities also utilize trolley ani an lamp posts in this manner the tracks at one of the mo mt t important raila railway ay iy stations in rotterdam Kotter dam are elevated on a trestle which overlooks over looKa ore of ine principal business much of the natural ugliness of tho the viaduct structure Is concealed conce alea by long lines of flower boxes at the sido ido of the rails and by b vines entwining r the thil posts beneath flower boxes are seen been on many posta in brussels too but on close in inspection some of f the blossoms are seen to bo be artificial in paris a R society offers prizes for the handsomest flo flowered Acred balconies and stores scores of business firms as well uell as hundreds of resi residents denti place flower boxes in dreir windows In doNs in perlin one set B floral I 1 embellish h menti clervi aare ere window boxes urns and gorgeous hanging baskets none of these cities Is more faor favorably ably situated for tho the maintien ince of such a system of d decoration thin Is kansas city nd all have demonstrated that the adornment of a commercial thor ough fare as well nell as a residence street Is practicable clean dpi it the airship really I 1 promes 1 f pric leal erday means of trivel travel it will revolutionize our life as greatly jig the rall roid be seventy enty div five e veirs e irs ago it will nill abolish fixed routes of travel and make ever atom of air a public high wiy like the wind we me will alit winder where we me list ne e will nill often enter our houses from on top tell kt t leist least pirt of the roofs of new buildings we me baill ought to be flat in an dl littlon li atlon of tho the now noa maar r of receiving collais hoof roof girdna will mill probably be bc common to all pre tent loua lous houses and ve e will work mork hard to make our root roof door and root roof handsome our bick ards will nill be as plainly in view as our front inns 11 no our kitchen porches as visible to visitors as our verandas our and sheds ehr ds aa as evident aa as our gates our alleva alles as publio as our streets we be able to look down don from airships upon a cluttered up hick blek door outbuildings out uncovered uncover Ld garbage ash nh n h and tin cm cin receptacles recci tables or waste scat about there are no ito receptacles at alp all from our heights in the free air the ugly backyard fences that divide it ahat hat might 1 io a garden into nar row and birren irren bick ards will seem pitiably petty new job for architects A new employment olli in germany german r Is that of artistic adviser to great muni 1 the first post of this kind has bag been created in I 1 oasle where the calv father shocked it nt the which hake been pet rated in recent vears ears in tho the nimo pir pr of architecture hive h IN 0 appointed it 11 skill ed architect whose office is to consid er the chancier of for bull lings to be erected within tho the pit loun found darlee arleR and especially whether bether the new building will harmo ize with its surroundings sleeping room the biby b iby a room should bo be well venta cited as well as bour our own only see that tho the bed bei is I 1 not in a drift half fair the babies that arc are EO so restless at night would I t much mu ch better if there wis mas a little freeh air in the room its it natural cla class do 3 ou advocate noli acate ocate these plane plans for ex terminating tho the A aw that chats 9 a bug adeil |