| Show a G 0 0 A 0 V MONEY THAT IS WELL SPENT insurance companie companies could not do better letter than seek to improve dwelling place places the great life insurance have been bestirring themselves la in tho the last two or three liars and look ing into the subject of ho bow and why longevity Is to increasing and how it can bo be made to increase still further they have found that more people reach forty fortyl lve eara ears of age than ever before in the history of the world but that they die faster after forty five than they over ever did before the high pressure of modern life the say may Is to blame for this as well ell as for the tremendous increase of la sanity although human life Is lengthening so much the mortality tables upon which the insurance companies base the premiums they charge their ell cli ants are more than fifty years old nearly half hall the population of the united sates slates Is insured and the om canles are reaching out after otter the other half many plans have been devised tor for the lengthening of the lives of the policy holders so that they may pay premiums the greatest possible number of years most of these plans have been along the lines of the prevention of tuberculosis and other prevalent diseases but none of them has beci been carried out except in theory as yel ye it Is safe to say how ever that if the great insurance corn com panics ponies with alth the incalculable sums of money that they control should tahe take up seriously the question of purifying and bettering the cities in which their policy holders live they would speedily get their investment investments back many times over through the in creased income in the village of bournoville Bourn ville a suburb of birmingham england the death rate Is less than half halt what it Is in birmingham the village Is owned and kept sanitary by I 1 a great ing concern that gives employment to its inhabitants and spends money in keeping them housed ad clean purely as a business investment PROPER TREATMENT much injury may be done dome by indis niclous application of various ou substance substances it requires pretty close observation and thorough understanding of conditions la in order to distinguish gas poisoning from some other types ot of injury which are sometimes likely to arise for example in the gypsy moth district about boston the trunks of many trees have been treated with crude oil and various other 0 substances ut which are exceedingly exceeding ir injurious J to trees crude oil or kerosene when sprayed on an tho the bark of a tree will nta te the bark and kill the cambium and these substances all also penetrate the wood to some extent unless one Is perfectly faill lar far with tte the of trees poisoned po leoned with gas roe it would be a very easy matter to confound cono und these two classes of injuries in loth cases the bark becomes loose and falls alls 0 the tree very quickly arom careful observations ions of the trunks bf ut trees however the effects of crude oil can ha be generally distinguished from tha caused by gas by one uhn Is familiar with those characteristic injuries would add lo 10 new york park parkis another Imor important tant of the proposed paric park and parkway system sug tor for new york would be to protect the great bridges ay says the sun of that city the space under and for some feet each side of the bridge approaches should be included in the park pace space and should be free ol 01 buildings A comparatively mall small con fla gration alone along that part of the east river containing the approaches of the williamsburg manhattan and brook lyn bridges might destroy all three of 0 these bridges in such a case the lois lots to tho the people pc in buit blumn iness ss time and situation would probably be greatly in excels excess of the actual money value of the destroyed bridges the largo large public buildings should be protected in the same ame way and all future school schools etc hould be located along the line of the park system although cities cannot be built to order to definite ideals much can be done to improve those that have beets handed down to as park engineer engineers the engineer should be one on who can cu cut t loose from exact lines and grade grades when by br an of ei ex asting circum circumstances an in artistic ef feet can be prodoc produced ed tor br L baying saying made lilts ii is especially important constructive ork cork while a 9 good d in I 1 1 engineer cannot know now too nuch much about horticulture he abound at least know tree trees end and hruba shrubs fairly irell well aad and have a kno knowledge cledge ot of their soil oil requirement beating the th enemy A LT ell wyoming merchant hu t la in local a r half bait page stating that any ny one paper raper sending an all order to a mall mail order I 1 ing tzg houe bouse can if they will come into lilt tore store get the order fillad at the 0 as o price and on the tb same term |
