Show BETTER HOMES WEEK TIPS Ideal Setting For True Life Is House With Play Space And Garden By Dr u V S ot of Better Commerce Better Homes In America Americ In the restless ot of our modern life lite lit we w e are ar ome lome times at a toes loss for tor Ideals and standards to help us keep koep k ep our bear Ini Ing But a a and finer type or of home bomo horn lire life Is one on ideal to we can well hold fast fait Ye We W hELVe have a timely duty to stress the value alue of home life lito lit now for tor or many forcee are at work ork to weaken I home and an family ties tie and In the United States statu at as In niost most other modern nations groups have hav food tood cloth clothing In and many luxuries and yet have not good shelter heller The Th home il le fundamental because It Is the th mold old In which the tho char char- character character character acter of ot the th next generation is II formed It Is basic bacic In our econom econom- economIC Ie IC system because it Is the th principal pal point at which men and worn wom- women en n consume the final product products ot oC our farms and mines mine and factories or adapt them to their own need neede needs as aa any typical family budget show The primary division of labor still stillie lies within the th family with the th winner breadwinner who is employed out out- out out Kid side In our OUI vast vait organized eco eco- economic eco co structure and the th homo home maker homo mak r who I keeps keepe house prepares to foOd d and attends to other personal ants Most people make mak their home the center ot of their social life lite and spend most mOlt of their leisure hours there Home can be dominant In nurturing the th religious Impulses which are so needed It we arc are to have a a finer tiner more mor hu- hu human hu human man development of ot our nation The Ideal setting for tor true home hom life lite is the tho detached house hou e with at least tome sonic space around It It We cannot expect the thc finest flower of family lifo from tenements nor even from some flats flats A single single- which a family owns Is much more apt to embody our Ideal The family has a sense ot of security and solidarity It has an Incentive for tor maintaining the house housand and home Through our civic bodies and local governments we w should as ac- ac sur as-sur ur uIT protection t for r re residential l dia- dia ds rom roni wanton IntrUSion ry Of means of ot sane une comprehensive city gand rand good zoning ordin- ordin ordin alce playgrounds within easy walking distance ot of o children In closely built districts parks pUke for breathing spaces safety on tho streets and effective public health measures Well drawn and en- en enforced enforced en enforced forced housIng laws law requiring light air privacy and sanitary facilities ties tiCs can do much to prevent th the growth of ot slums standards of ot business deal deal ln among those thos who build and sell homes and adequate reason reason- reasonable reason reason-abl able financing for tor home hom seekers also help to advance home homo owner ownership ship The Th services of ot util utilities ma may be b extended into a great greot cr er number of ot homes homel by sound policies worked out in friendly co- co coop cooperation cooperation op operation with local officials The Th Better Homes movement af af- af affords affords fords a a direct practical opportunIty Ity for tor spirited public grOups The rhe loc local demonstrations are planned for families who want to help thorn them th selves and they also focus pUblic attention on the home The Th broad and growing rowing support of the tho th cam cam- pains ns is an encouraging sign and leads to the hope that they may ma reach roach more mor fully tully Into all our corn com IMPORTANCE 01 01 G The Th Importance of the th garden to the true tru home horn Is emphasized by loin Mr Francis King Kin honorary president prest- prest president dent of ot the Womans Woman's National Farm arm and Garden association an I active member of ot the Garden Gorden Club Clulo ot of America and a a member of the Advisory Council of ot Better Homes In America in an article In la the cur cur cur- current cur r rent nt issue of ot the th Child Welfare magazine The Th entire Issue of ot the magazine is devoted to the better homes In America movement Even ven the th smallest area ares at the back of ot the th housed housel hous If It planned can call be made Into a a place ploce of ot charm and productiveness Mrs Kin King writes I The Tho divIding of the ground Into spaces for tor grass crass for tor vegetables for tor or flowers ers the th encircling Ing of ot It with shrubs or with flow flow- erinI cring or fruiting vines ine such as grapes for tor fruit or ramblers for flowers or It if there thele ther should be a high Mth wire fence tence not a a hedge with for tor an evergreen vine these are the first steps to be betaken betaken betaken taken In any part of ot the small ground devoted to flowers flower 01 or vegetables t lit lit- littie l tie beds should be marked oft oCt for tor forthe forthe the children Here Hero should be sown lown with seeds ot of their own buy buy- buy Ing Inc with pennies from their own banks their own particular tiny provinces Here the smallest can candIg candig candie dIg his hole hoie plant his bean or pea mark his line for tor radish or for tor beet here the th little girl tirl can watch with her bright ees eyes her crooked row of ot cornflower or pink rink send up Its first green creen sIgns Over beds will be seen the excited in- in intense In Intense tense bending of ot little backs from these beds will be heard the small email squeal squeals as a 0 a Is really discovered and all that Is needed to produce alt all this delight Is a a little Interest and teaching on the part of ot the father or mother a little ground devoted de to the youngest of ot the family Keep your our children at home Fence or hedge your our prop prop- property property erty Orty the th defense that babies bable mo may not die beneath the terrible wheels now turning turning everywhere Plant your grounds with care and thought so that they may have not only a a sate sata sat place but a beau beau- beautiful beautiful one to enjoy Give Gl e each child a few tew feet of or earth for his o own n to work stork In to produce In a place m whIch to get that stimulus for tor the Imagination tion which 1 is hardly to be found for tor children today and andI I know that any child brought up In a a garden will 1 be happier a wiser a better man maD or woman for that thet early surrounding of living green Mrs King KInc details the tho planning and planting of the garden for tor the child which the th child must do himself Concluding she th writes There Ther Is no child and child and I be llev be-llev lIeve no grown person who either either would not notice with pleasure such a little pattern ot of flowers ot of as a is suggested here It ItIs ItIs Itis Is not only the th older ee eye ey that will see seo the th four tour lines of ot deep violet flowers of ot the annual larkspur blooming in tour four balanced spots In Inthis inthis Inthis this little garden and giving char char- character character acter to the tho th whole but there ther will willbe willbe willbe be a silent lesson learned by the little owner and worker too when this series of six Elt spaces Is in full tull and some of the th basic prin prin- principles prin- prin principles principle ciple of ot good gardening are arc there thereon thereon theron on the th ground him made by his hi own hands Home gardens will be an Import impo Important t- t tant ant feature ot of the th programs ol ot bet bet- better b ter t-ter ter homes In America committees In thousands of ot American cities towns lowns and villages |