Show TUB THE TOWN make each center dependent upon itself and its own owl hi there lins has lately developed a strong sentiment looking to tile improvement of the homo home tolvie making each cn li community ns as much Is possible dependent upon itself and ltd its own on resources und and those of lla its sur sui rounding country ind and indea L 1 I ont ent of tho the great contras which are an constantly st rivine to secure a portion of the local wealth ith this local self sufficiency may bo be fostered by till nn individual anti operative cooperative co det determination erml to bring the town tou III hii to its highest possible piano of comfort pen gou oral cral usefulness and beauty to its ita residents this may bo be described descrIbe tl ns as a movement for civic chic I 1 ili prove anent tile the accumulation of considerable w wealth balth in many american villages nid towns during the last ten or twenty thinly years the development of popular po iular education and the increase of leisure lol liaa has given tin nn opportunity for the performance for mance manco of Ill public tiie duties such fis as had not seemed to exist to the young man or woIn woman till of tho the former femur gatier aaion who in tho the dorfort to secure a livelihood and establish a gioino hal riven given little thought to the hie duties of citizenship rind social responsibilities it Is 18 only within a comparatively few years that linture study ila ins entered into any of tile public school work or even manual training w while there anre many who yit yet think that such institutions 0 as s gyn rills baths playgrounds and even vacation nc atlon schools and free lectures are arc sary time consumers for the young nevertheless the movement nt for foi a better education along rural lines and for backyard mid and street improve meat and the general 0 of the village and town la Is rapidly in I 1 it creasing As aa tin nn in instance tance or of 01 this oo evea 00 i in ili riichi sit n large city na as 1 st louls gerlt rind boys are riven given practical instruction in fit gardening through tile junior school of horticulture of file lita I gardens the children atre aro permitted to sell pell their own on products pio ducts a drewea dedda d stimulus to tinli c e orts 01 ts and in tills this win way many of thein hit in 0 rn r considerable pocket money for i ac atlon loil time this school ins his been in ili operation for a number of years ars anti and I 1 is or of great value to the citizens eltia a s ns as well as to the children of tile city tile the 1 antei of idt whom would otherwise others iso know tolly cally nothing of nature ns as country leb children ildren know it even in texas tile school garden and town improvement iden idea lias bils mado made headway although there has won been greater difficulty in obtaining ir approval opp roial and support possibly than in ili any other section of tile country owing to the fact perhaps that the lone star state has enst ast areas of unoo land and to tile the fact tint that tho the influential majority liis has aven but a short time removed front from the cattle SA 4 ax 4 V 47 axi 1 71 y 14 J 4 g CLASS IN LIVE STOCK JUDGING AND PLANT nt rn pa hufh school range business Ilo wever the more centralized portion of society lifts lia taken the matter up and it la Is stated that the most public spirited citizens of 0 tho the towns and cities together with the progressive have inneo school gardent gardens and auril education ii success during tho the past two reasons and havo aroused such enthusiasm among the pupils that wherever it has been tried the school garden has become a fixture |