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IMPROVING BACK YARDS.
Features of a Movement on Foot to
Beautify Them.
Paris is a city noted everywhere for
beauty, not merely of architecture, but
of nature and the art which good taste
is able to evolve from nature. Particularly
is it known for the beauty of
its trees and flowers and parks, says
Youth's Companion.
The chief gardener of the city of
Paris has been spending a two months'
vacation in the United States studying
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parks and gardens. He found much
to praise, but had nothing but condemnation
for the American city and
town back yard. In New York particularly
he found the back yards incredibly
ugly and neglected?no grass,
no trees, no vines, no flowers.
The criticism would hold good of almost
any American city or town, but
the matter is one which young landscape
architects are beginning seriouslv
to consider. One such man in Bos
ton is making a special study of the
problem of converting a few square
yards of brick pavement into a little
secluded bower of greenery where the
family can have a restful hour or a
pleasant meal in surroundings far
more attractive than the average roof
garden affords.
Manufacturers interested in this
young man's work have produced special
pieces of garden furniture of cement
and terra cotta.
A New Yorker has recently told in
print of the curiosity he felt at the
wording of an advertisement of some
apartments to rent One of the attractions
mentioned was the outlook on
real trees and back yards which were
gardens. Later conversation with the
agent disclosed the fact that the modest'attempt
at beauty which the windows
commanded was a real asset It
raised the rentable value of the property.
CUTTING DOWN A BILLBOARD.
How Tacoma Jurist Proved Himself
Advcfcato of Town Beautiful.
Justice John W. Linck of Tacoma,
Wash., recently gave proof of his interest
in civic improvement when he set
an. example to other advocates of the
city and town beantifnl by chopping
down a high billboard planted upon
his property.
The story of Justice Linck's work
was told by himself. Said he:
*Wbat do yon think I did in the way
of getting a hit of exercise the other
day? I got a hatchet and, going to my
property, I found an excellent form of
exercise in chopping down a large,
newly painted billboard put up without
my permission.
*My objection to the billboard, however,
was not that It had been erected
without permission or upon my lot My
objection was to the thing itself as a
nuisance which, being upon my property,
I had a right to destroy. I did it
all myself. It was a stiff job, but
finally it fell to the ground.
"I have a suspicion/' concluded the
justice, "that the billboard agency will
not erect any more signs upon my
property."
TOWN BETTERMENT HINTS.
Street Names on 8idewalke?Original
; Idea For Protecting Grass Plots.
Two good suggestions for the improvement
of a town are furnished by
a correspondent of Good Housekeeping,
who writes as follows:
In passing through a Canadian city
recently I discovered something new
to me. In the more aristocratic sections
of the town the walks were entirely
made of cement and at each
corner the name of the street was cut
in it in large, plain letters. This was
a great convenience for any one not
perfectly familiar with the localities.
There was also an original idea for
protecting the wide, turf covered parking
at the intersections of the streets.
"At .almost every corner a rough
< . wall of stone three feet high had been
built from the walk diagonally across
the grass to the road, and this wall
was treated like a rockery, being set
with hardy plants and ferns best I
adapted to such a position. Such a
wall discouraged all passersby from
cutting across the grass, while its effect
was exceedingly picturesque.5'
Public Building Approaches.
There are dignity and strength in a
long and wide approach to a public
building for the loss of which no
mere ornamentation can compensate,
says the Los Angeles Times. One of
the most peculiarly fitting of such vistas
is the parked main entrance to the
county courthouse in Fresno, Cal., a
building surrounded on all sides by
ornamental trees which during the
hot, dry summers cast a necessary
and grateful shade quite uniformly
over a much traversed territory. Owing
to a plentiful supply of soil mois
tore at no great depth certain classes
of trees there make a more rapid
growth than may be found elsewhere
in the state.
The Beauty of Hawaiian Yards.
The beauty of Hawaiian homes is in
the outlook?the turf, the trees, the
shrubs, the vines, the sea, the valleys,
the mountains, the things no man can
own, the beauty?property of everybody
having eyes to see and seeing.
This tends naturally to altruism, and
aside from the theory the fact is that,
while this community has faults and
blemishes enough, it is relatively free
from selfishness, says the Chicago
News. The rich, with one or two exceptions,
are generous givers, public
sympathy is easily aroused, and when
these people waken up and get the
hang of twentieth century democracy?
that fusion of fair play, horse sense,
piety and practical politics?a model
community will not be hard to find.
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IDEAL VILLAGE CLUB,!
Its Clubhouse Affords Recreation
and Practical Instruction.
100D PLACE FOR BOTH SEXES
Facilities Afforded For Healthful
Amusements ? Good Reading and
Smoking Rooms?The Housekeeping I
Classes For Women and Girls.
Some suitable place where the j
young and the old may spend an hour
or two pleasantly and enjoy healthful
recreation is a good thing for any
town. Such an idea has been put into
effect by the citizens of a Massachusetts
town.
The little town of Ludlow, Mass., is
very fortunate in the possession of a
beautiful village clubhouse, called the
Stevens Memorial building. It is a
i handsome brick building built in 1005
j as a memorial to the late John E Ste[
vens, formerly agent for the Ludlow
Manufacturing Associates, says the
Springfield (Mass.) Union. Under its
roof can be found facilities for every
healthful recreation. Here when their
clay's work is finished the people of
Ludlow gather to enjoy the ideal reading
ond smoking rooms, pool room and
bowling alley, women's reading room,
gymnasium and swimming pool. There
are also several class rooms, where the
women and girls learn many things
which will help to make good, thrifty
housekeepers.
The pool room and bowling alleys are
among the best of their kind in the
vicinity of Ludlow. The bowling alley
contains three alleys, and there has
been many a hard fought contest be
tween the different bowling leagues.
One alley is reserved for women on
Thursday evening. The pool room contains
nine pool tables, and this room
is also open to women on Thursday
evening. The women also have a
pool room of their own with one table.
Dr. Eoline Du Bois, formerly of Cambridge,
but now of Ludlow, is the social
director of the institute.
For a very small annual fee the
members are entitled to the privileges
of the building and an additional fee
for the classes. The classes started on
Oct 1 with an enrollment of 160 women
and 75 children.
The swimming pool is 48 by 16 feet
and is lined with white enamel bricks.
The water is being purified constantly
by passing through a filter. The room
which contains the pool is fitted with
dressing rooms, lockers, hot and cold
shower baths, needle baths and tub
baths, which each person is required to
use before entering the pool
The gymnasium and assembly hall is
used for concerts, dances, tneamcais.
etc. Here the gymnasium classes meet
and dancing classes are held. The
physical culture classes, which include
instruction in swimming, Indian clubs,
dumbbells, wands, marching, full
standing exercises, apparatus work
and popular games, including volley
ball, center ball and basket ball for
the girls, meet Monday and Friday '
afternoons. The boys meet in the athletic
field after school on Tuesday and
Thursday afternoons and have one
hour's open air play. All sorts of
games, including Rugby andALSsociation
football and baseball, are played, the
boys themselves choosing the games.
They usually play the games that the
older boys are playing, and each one
tries to imitate his particular favorite
as 'near as possible. H. Udell Pease
of the Technical High school of Springfield
has charge of the boys. He
teaches them the proper way to play
the popular games and makes sure
that each boy gets fair play. He also
endeavors to promote a general feeling
of good fellowship among the boys.
After the hour's play they march to
the Stevens memorial building swimming
pool, where they spend thirty
minutes in the water. There are more
excitement and fun crowded Intc| that
short half hour than all the rest of the
week put together.
Miss Buscall conducts the dancing
classes, and the pupils are taught all
the popular steps, square dances, fancy
dances and ballroom etiquette.
The cooking classes are personally
superintended by Dr. Du Bois. Here
they are taught the scientific as well
as the practical side of cooking. Monday
and Friday evenings the millinery
classes meet There are three classes
for the adults in dressmaking every
week.
Many men in Ludlow who otherwise
might frequent undesirable places for
the sake of the companionship arc
seen in the smoking room every evening.
Boys and girls who would otherwise
be walking the streets or loafing
around corners are found in this ideal
village club indulging in healthful recreation.
Vacant Lot Cleaning.
Every municipality should have an
ordinance and enforce it requiring all
vacant lots to be kept clean at all
times and not make a raid on them
once a year, for the task is well nigh
gigantic if undertaken in a large city
or town but a single month each year,
says the Los Angeles Times. Nonresidents
who will not improve their property
and who therefore are valueless
to a city or town should be sharply ^
dealt with in this matter and be given <
to understand tnat some aeuon win ue '
taken, no matter if their property is
purposely "stagnated." Any owner
who allows his premises to become so
untidy as to offend the taste of good
citizens harbors a nuisance which
should be summarily suppressed or
eradicated. It gives the city an unfavorable
reputation and depresses the
price of surounding property. <
ATLANTA NEGRO GETS MEDAL, i
First Colored Person to Receive Re- j
ward From the Carnegie Fund.
Atlanta, Nov. 26?John B. Hill, j
the negro who for saving several j
lives in a runaway on Peachtree
street was awarded a Carnegie hero
medal and a sum of money, has received
the check for $500 from the
hero fund commission. He is the
first negro to receive a reward from
Carnegie's fund.
The act for which Hill received the
award was a daring one. The teams
of Henry Inman and J. E. Hunnicut
collided on Peachtree street, causing
both to run away. In the Hunnicut
carriage were two little children. As
it dashed past the residence of Willis
Ragan, where Hill was working, the
negro despite weakness from a recent
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illness, ran out anu sci^cu luc nuisw
by their heads. The frenzied animals
dragged him for a block before he
succeeded in bringing the carriage to
a halt.
Ross Acquitted of Murder.
Barnwell, Nov. 28.?The jury in
the case against J. B. Ross, charged
with the murder of Johnson Pender,
returned to the court room at 12
o'clock Wednesday night with a
verdict of not guilty on the first
count, in the indictment; guilty of
carrying a concealed weapon. Judge
Memminger gave him the maximum
for this offense, $100 or 30 days.
By consent of jurors and prisoners,
court continued in session Thanksgiving
day.
W. D. Rhodes, the negro charged
with shooting Mr. C. B. Ellis, at Martin
station, Oct. 22, 1907, was put
upon trial. He was not represented i
hv rvmn.cpl. Mr. Ellis, who is totally
blind from the wounds inflicted upon
him, was in court. In a very few
minutes the jury returned a verdict
of guilty. The evidence against
Rhodes was conclusive and he was
sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary.
In sentencing him Judge Memminger
stated the law was inadequate,
when for this attempted assassination
the defendant could only
be sentenced to 10 years.
Doc Grant, a negro charged with
murdering another negro, plead
guilty to manslaughter and received
a sentence of four years.
John Coleman, who was found
guilty of manslaughter on Wednesday,
was sentenced to 20 years in the
penitentiary.
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Paul E. Faust Shows Mistake of
Manufacturers and Retailers.
UNLEARNED IN ADVERTISING.
They Neglect Papers For Farmers,
Who Should Constitute Large Part
of Their Customers, Says an Agent.
How to Meet Mail Order Competition.
"Why do manufacturers of general
merchandise, grocers' goods, wearing
apparel, musical goods, household furnichinrrc
nnrl sitnilnr nrodlicts. who Sell
through dealers, so generally overlook
the publications reaching farmers, including
such powerful papers as the
Weekly Star?"
That question was put to Paul E.
Faust while he was visiting Kansas
City. Mr. Faust looks after the interests
of an advertising firm west of
Chicago, says the Kansas City Star.
"That's an interesting question," Mr.
Faust replied. "*or the productiveness
of the big weeklies?we call papers like
the Weekly Star national weeklies?
isn't the question, because in placing
our volume of $4,000,000 annually in
advertising we distribute hundreds of
thousands each year to these so called
agricultural papers. But this is largely
for implements or farm machinery,
mill work, building material, seeds, separators,
incubators, maP order merchandise,
stock remedies, etc. This is
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goods sold by mail to the user and
those sold through retailers. Such advertisers
have proved beyond all argument
that the farm papers pay. The
result getting value of the agricultural
press as a class isn't a debatable question.
"Of this fortune, placed by us each
year for clients in farm papers, a very
small percentage is for manufacturers
of food products or wearing apparel or
general merchandise selling through retailers.
"Now, why?
"The only answer is that the makers
of the goods mentioned in the question
as a class haven't arrived. They are
on the wrong scent Those who do use
the farm papers and advertise judiciously
almost without exception find
a gold mine of returns."
"Whose fault is it?"
"Largely the manufacturers'; partly
the publishers'; partly the fault of the
uninformed advertising agents.
"It is the manufacturers' fault because
they haven't learned a lesson
from the tremendous successes of mail
order houses and because they close
their eyes to advertising opportunity
and often because they haven't brand
ed identifiable goods that lend themselves
to advertising.
"It is the publishers' fault because
they haven't got behind the issue and
pushed it Publishers are generally
poor advertisers. They don't promote.
They don't take their own medicine.
They think that printed matter Isn't
read, that letters are wastebasketed.
that advertising journals are useless,
and their own publications, which
should be valuable advertising mediums,
are entirely overlooked. It Is
sure that publishers haven't told the
manufacturer half enough of his opportunity.
"Then there is the fault to be laid
to the door of the uninformed advertising
agent He may not know what a
golden harvest the farm papers offer.
He may encourage his client in using
the publications the client thinks he
wants, or he may not know how to
utilize the agricultural papers, though
recognizing their value.
"The majority of manufacturers will
eventually take up farm papers or the
mail order houses will still more effectually
dominate in the trade with
the farmer. Today country retailers
in many lines are comDinmg to ngni
mall order houses. They are barking
up the wrong tree. Their complaint Is
logically against the manufacturers
they buy of. They should draft resolutions
praying their manufacturers to
reach their consumers and drive demand
to the retailers instead of resolutions
condemning mail order practices.
Mall order methods are here to
stay unless some other plan Is Invented
that will self quality goods to the
consumer for less money.
"No. The mail order competition can
be met only by brand goods popularized
by advertising and sold only
through dealers. Then when demand
is created for a product the encyclopedia-like
mail order catalogue can't
supply it
"The manufacturers who realize this
are garnering large profits, because
they do not have to sell goods on a cut
price basis to get business. They sell
products in brands which they alone
can supply. They make demand and
control trade and protect retailers with
reasonable profit margins.
"But at this time the mail order merchandise
house has a rosy future. So
much publicity has been given mail order
selling to the consumer by reason
of retailers' associations and their fight
against mail order selling that the people
have heard of direct to consumer
methods as they never did before.
"To get down to statistics, half the
people of the United States are of the
agricultural class. The majority of
manufacturers overlook this half.
A.bout a billion dollars a year are spent
by farmers for machinery, implements,
building material, etc. But about the
only people who remember that this
rich farmer is a customer for eatables,
wearables, etc., are the mail order
men.
"When will the other manufacturers
wake up?"
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