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The Utilization of the Vacant Lots
' V : for the Benenefit of the Very Poor
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Have you ever seen a little child, born
and reared In a tenement house?
Do you realize how many such children
exlet In our great cities and how they
are living under as
unnatural 1 Condi
tions as plants
growing in & cellar?
Have ' you ever
wondered as you
went about the big
cities, and saw
acres and acres of
unused land, right
within the city lim
its, to whom this
land belonged?
And why It was
Idle?
Some of: our bil
lionaires . . became
billionaires because
this 'land was al-
' lowed to lis vacant without being taxed
to any extent, until It rose to a fabulous
price, through the growth of the city.
Now It has come to the minds of good
people that many of these vacant lots
might be utilized for the benefit of the
very poor who have no privileges of sun
light and fresh air, and that the little
children growing up in our great cities
might be helped by some co-operative ef-
.forts along thes paths .of procedure.
The International Children's School
Farrn'Ieague is one of the' results of these
'ideas '
flare is its declaration of. purpose:
"To Promote and Unify a World-Wide
Interest in Children's Gardens."
'y, assisting In. starting children's
gardens in suitable parks and vacant
lot?.
. By ..assisting In starting gardens in
connection with schools, until boards of
education' become eonvinced of their value
and take over their maintenance.
. By. assisting in starting gardens in con
nection with hospitals and Institutions
. for children who are mentally or physic
ally weak or deficient. , . -
By urging the .employment of teachers
trained for children's garden work. '
, By establishing ' a training school for
nuch teachers. v
By exlhlbitlng models and pictures of
the work for the information of the
public.
)By maintaining a bureau of informa
tion and-, advice on ' how- to start and
conduct children's gardens; furnishing
lectures, printed matter, photographs and
lantern slides.
' No matter how large or small the
number, each child has his or her own
garden, on which- he or, she does all
the work. A new interest and sense of
responsibility comes with ownership,
arousing the forces of ambition! and de:
velpping at once the need of property
protection. Often it is their first underV
standing of the rights of property owners;
and this awakening of the civic sense of
protection is to have a tremendous in
fluence. . , . . ' w
' They spread fertilizer, spade, rake,
plant, hoe, ; water, weed and harvest.
Worthy work well done is always dig
nified, and the worker dignifies it. . The
child must be shown how to do the
work well; arouse his labor-saving in
telligence, and open his mind Jo' the
forces of the plements that are serving
his. Intelligent activfty, and he will never
question the dignity of labor that arouse
intelligence ana that fills him with pride
over the product.
Children's- gardens conducted on this
plan , ha ve' spaces ''reserved' for varieties
of "products grown: throughout the coun
try, so bringing the .chieldren to the
larger problems of the nation.
There is much work to be done in the
garden outside of the children's plot. Just
as .every community- has public works
that must be attended to,' so the children
must contribute their ' .sendees to the
general welfare of the whole garden. And
In this work they learn of broom corn,
flax, wheat, cotton and other won-erful
plants that are so Important to the
world. ' : '
To preserve the neatness-of the garden
ihe children are taught to gnthor sum-?
and trash, load wheelbarrows and wheel
away. In doing! this, and in . keeping in
order the paths over which the loads must
be wheeled, they learn !n jslmple, effec
tive manner to think about one of the
greatest aids to civilization transporta
tion. The way: In which the question r,r
good roads can be brought to children In
garden will make them think ?Dorekana
more of the fact that "all production it
transportation," and that as all material
production Is the result of moving things
economically, that they may be worth
more after they are moved than they
k-ere before. ;". : "',-. - t'V J ."
' The widespread use of gardens la th
education of children win be a tremeiU
cous force in hastening t'ie i'vflpie .oa
better use of the land.. For all the people
inust know something about the subject
tojlntejllgently elect representatives who
are to act for them In public matters,
and to .respond when action Is taken..
The well being of a nation is not to bo
measured by total figures of wealth, but
by the number of Individuals who are
d.iiip well. The spread of children's
8-A't'cn. Is to be a: tremendous force for
this individual well being throughout the
land. '
In an address given a few months ago
the secretary of the league said:
"We have proved that the school garden
is a valuable addition to every part of
the curriculum. It is an inspiration to
expression and language. A stimulant to
study, and furnishes material and Illus
tration for every subject.
".'Unto him who hath shall be given.'
Our' land offers great opportunities. It
is for'ua to develop in the children the
courage to grasp these opportunities and
the ability to use them. ."Visit properly
conducted children's gardens and you will
see before your eyes the awakening of In
dividual resourcefulness, self-dependence,
foreseeing thrift, activity for community
welfare. You will see a Joy In work
that lightens labor. You will see children
gaining knowledge of sunlight and fresh
air that will affect their future living
and housing. You will see them learning
many useful things in a way that will
affect the methods of the future instruc
tion. You will see them instinctively de
veloping the traits of good citizenship.
It is not high wans, strong locks, or se
vere laws that best proteot. It is by each
individual knowing how . closely his per
sonal well being is bound up with all.
All the good things we desire for . our
land ' must come through knowledge and
understanding. All' the knowledge and
understanding to be gained in the garden
is of the fundamental things of life."
Copyright 1912, International News Service.
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By WINIFRED BLACK.
The other day 1 went to the mountain
top.
It was a fair day In the valley, a day
exceedingly fair. All along the way the
red Indian paint
brushes stood like
funny little pat
arans, put there
long ago to show
gipsy feet the road
to the summit.'
And beside them
flowered the tall
blue 1 u n t h and
the bright yellow
mountain f u r s e ,
and ) as we went
higher, through the
sighing pines, into
the region of the
twisted cedars,
past the quiver
ing aspen groves,.
up, ,up beyond , the line of timber, the
blue forget-me-hots carpeted the upland
meadows like great rugs of priceless
worth. Blue, bluo as ths eyes of a new
born baby, blue as tapphlre, blue as the
sky on a June day in California, blue as
forget-me-nots.
And a little pale girl sat flinone them
and gathered bouquets to help pay for
her living there in thfl hills where she
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Beauty Secrets of Footlight Favorites
the Girl with "Nerves" The
Cause and Remedy.
Hallucinations of Living J
That an old friend and comrade is said
to have seen and spoken to Captain
Smith, who went down with the ill
starred Titantic, is, we suppose, one of
those.'strange hallucinations as to persons
longi dead being still , alive : with which
every student of history is familiar. We
find such a belief underlying many of
the folk tales of the olden time. Oisln
and the earl of Kildare are cases In
point. At least two very successful
novels have been built around such a con
tingency. But, apart from folklore and fiction, wo
find even in comparatively modern tlme-s
pertinent .. illustrations. The duke of
Monmouth, an Illegitimate eon of Charles
II, organized an unsuccessful Insurrec
tion against his. uncle, James II, and
was defeated and taken prisoner at tha
battle of .Sedgemoor In 1685. He was sub
sequently beheaded on Tower hill In the
presence of many persons who knew him
well. Yet for more than twenty years
afterward the belief was all but universal
among the peasantry of Somersetshire
and throughout the west country that
Monmouth, as they loved to call him,
was still alive and would one day return
and lead his followers to victory.
For several weeks after the death of
the younger Pitt, lh February, 1806, many
people were prepared to testify on oath
that he was still living and that they had
seen him. The delusion was in this case
probably helped out by the fact that. In
one of the government offices there was
employed a clerk who bore an ex
traordinary facial resemblance to the
dead statesman. "
In our own day there "Were men who
were convinced that they had frequently
'seen General Gordon "In the streets of
London long' after he had so miserably
perished at Khartoum. To this day there
are hundreds of people in Ireland with
whom It is almost ah article of faith that
Parnell, So far from being dead, Is merely
in retirement waiting for a favorable op
portunity to come back and take the lead
of toe-famous PameUite party which he
had fashioned . into a powerful political
machine. To them the tombless grave
1n Glasnevln or the St 3audens monu
ment in the principal street of Dublin
carries no conviction. They hug the de
lusion to their hearts and find in it a
strange comfort. Washington Post
Home Remedl In Verse.
The head of a family, who thought to
save some of his hard-earned dollars by
trying out. simple home remedies when
one of his household bame 111, came
in a few nights ago with- a book under
his arm, which he handed to his wife, re
marking:
"Here is a work on burns. I found It
at an auction this afternoon. As one of
the children Is almost sure to get burned
some day I thought it would be a good
investment look It over carefully and
be prepared in case of an accident"
The wife opened the volume dutifully
and then exclaimed; ' ' .
'How odd! It's all poetry!" Kansas-
City Star.
By MARIE VERNON.
People say it's the fat man who suf
fers most in summer time, but don't be
lieve It The real sufferer Is the girl
with the nerves. j.
Why, I know girls who can start In and
worry themselves into heat prostration,
so that you have to give them aromatlo
spirits, put Ice to their necks, fan them
and sympathize with them until their
nerves calm down, for It is Just a mat
ter of nerves.
On the stage, people seem to expect a
display of temperament, but from what
I have noticed this temperament when it
isn't put on, is JuBt nerves uncontrolled,
and the greatest actresses, those Who
make the most success, don't indulge tn
nerves, and, indeed they have learned
to control them absolutely.
I was in the company once with our
best loved American woman star. I won't
tell you who she was because you ought
to be able to guess. Never during all the
time that I was there did she give a
single display of nerves . behind the
scenes, though she had to be very emo
tional before the footlights. Somebody
asked her why she was So quiet and self
possessed at the time during rehearsals
or when things went wrong in the .com
pany. , ;
"I can't afford wasting my vitality in
having a tantrum and In losing self
control, . which is really what an attack
of nerves is," was her answer, and it
gave me a good deal to think about, as
she was a delicate little woman, the kind
you would expect to go all to pieces at
the slightest thing.
I learned' from her to hold myself in
hand and to govern and control my
own nervousness, and since that time,
though I- doti't want to flatter myself.
I think' I-have grpwn much better look
ing. -Vv. -
The girj who . lets "herself have nerves
will': soop find a" lot of little lines, and
wrinkles forming in her face. If she has
a very fine sklni they ' look like tiny
little elehed, lines on the surface of her
face, and when she is gay and merry
they don't show, at all. But the minute
she "fs the least bit tired, or begins to
fret and worry, she looks ten years older
In a very few minutes.
I suppose neives' come from a poor
constitution; but I have seen lots of
perfectly healthy girls give away to
their '. fretful thoughts, and become Just,
as nervous,' as If they were chronic In
valids; while,- on the- other hand, I
know girls who really do suffer consid
erable physical pain,, but who have such
woiderful self-control that they never
Indulge in tantrums, or let . you even
think they have ; aching nerves in their
body. - '-;'''
I, don't know' what .the . medical cure
for nerves is,' but' lots of times a girl
Can cure, herself without, having; to go
to a doctor, for. I was my own physi
cian, and I think f, made, a very suc
cessful cure. .
When I found that my -' nervousness
was beginning to affect my looks and
that I was getting thin and harassed
looking. I decided that raw nerves
were a very poor investment for a girl
who wanted to make a success on the
stage.
I decided, first of all, that I wouldn't
worry about anything that could be
remedied, and that I would make my
self stop thinking of the troubles that
couldn't be changed. Of course, this
took some will power, and nobody can
do it' for you; so the nervous girl has
to just buckle down to a hard mental
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hoped to find strength. And We a
bought the boquets and smiled Into th
shy eyes of the delicate child, and askaj,
her whet she railed the dog who w$i
her sturdy companion.
And some of us thought of healthy"
children of our own, happy at home, 4n$
some, I think, remembered children who,
had tried to live, too, and had failed.
Up we went, up and up to the top ft
the world, and there we saw the glory,
of the skies. t
They were blue that day, as blue, as the
forget-me-nots, and far, far below
floated great fleets of snow-white clouds
like Icebergs adrift in a strange an'
sljent sea. And some of us could not
speak, nnd some sighed, and some, .
know, wept for very Joy at the great
beauty of It all. .
And one stood beside me and sniffed,
"Say." said she, "I don't see anything
much here, do you?" ,
"Not a thing." said I, and then she
told me the mountains Were all a great
fake, and she wished she had stayed ay
home. , ,
"Spent a lot of money all for nothing,'?
she said. "I'll know better next tlme
III tell you that." t " .,.
And a we went down the mountain
side we talktd, and t found that she liked
the town near by "rather well.'
"There are two picture shows thereat
he said, "and every night there's vaude
ville, and a band concert twice a wee)c,
nnd lots of folks moving about all "tlje
time." " ,
I And we laughed together, the womaa
v ho sniffed, and -I, fit the , people who
were "Jay enough," that was the expres
slqn she used, to like the mountains, and
the fky, and the fleets of clouds, and
the fields of heavenly nlue, and I sup
pose that woman thinks she saw all there
was to see In the mountains, too.
Poor, foolish, blind, deaf, dumb, half
living creature! Why, she never sees
anything, she Just thinks she sees.
Whut do such people get out of the
world, I wonder? What a queer, mixed,
up, foolish sort of place It must be to
them all the time! '
What fools they must think all the
other people, or maybe they think th'
test of us are Just putting on when wa,
like to see beauty Instead of ugliness,
glory Instead of Btiualor!
I knew a man- once who said he knew
iio one really liked to read, they just satd
tl ey did to "put on." 1 f1
I know another man who declares ha
can't see the difference between a dinner)
at a good restaurant and a "feed" af"
cafeteria, "it s all grub,", he says, "whsf
the . difference, (. except . the airs?" ,AtTd
he really means .lt, too. . .. - - .j ,. $
.All men are equal, says the old lawi
oh! if some law could . only make, them
so. AlPmen are equal,, and one Is blm4,
and one Is 1-ome.; , j1, , ; , a
. Arl.men are equal, and all women. t
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.I wonder If the .woman who cpjildfft
see anything worth 'looking at," oh ti
mounwirr top minks so, too? , -.
drill all by herself. I
the things I wanted to do, and I tried
reading a book during the time that I
otherwise would have spent ' In fretting.
I was very thin, and looked about for a
diet that would be soothing to the nerv
ous system and fattening at the same
time. After a while this -is about what I
settled on for my dally meals:
For breakfast, cocoa, a ceteal, two e?K
and plenty of bread arid butter. For
lunch, cocoa once more, macaroni, vege
tables, rice or potatoes, and a fruit salad.
At night I had a good soup, meat, one
fresh vegetable and potatoes, and fruit
for dessert. T ate lots of toa3ted bread,
with butter, Itr all my meals. You eat
more butter on toast than you do on or.
dlnary bread; have you ever noticed that?
And butter, of course. Is fattening.
Just before F went to bed I had a glass
of malted milk or milk with an cg
beatpn up In it. When I was playing I ate
a little heartier supper and kept a bottle
of milk In my dressing room to drink be-
MISS MARIE VERNON.
One of the Zlegfeld Beauties in "A "Winsome Widow" Company.
worked hard at , tween times.
I had always been very much affected
by the heat and groaned and complaint d
like other nervous people,-' so I .made
up my mind that I Would never mention
the lioat apsln. except In a casual way,
and that I would stop complaining about
It. I soon found", that I didn't feel so
hot. and I .looked much cooler, which Is
always sustaining to one's vanity.
Even now that I don't confess that 1
have any nerves at all, 1 am very careful
not to indulge in tea and coffee, and I
pay strict attention to my diet, because I
think that your disposition depends very
largely on what you eat and how It
agrees with you. I couldn't work well if
I didn't feel in good health, and I cer
tainly could not be amiable unless I
felt right up to the mark. Now we all
know that beauty depends on an amiable
spirit and a happy disposition as much
as It does on regiiar features and good
eyes. Given the regular features you
ought to be able to develop a good dis
position, and If you have nerves you can
and should conquer them, for there Is
nothing more certain than that giving
away to fits of nerves will ruin the pret
tiest face and give it a pouting, peevish
expression.
Persistent . Advertising is the Road
Big Returns.'. "
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"On Dotr or Off."
Speaking of the ordpr Issued by the
managers of the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western railroad to the employes in
the transportation service that they must
abstain from intoxicants "on duty or
off," a New York retired merchant told
this story: "My father mado the same
rule in his business many years ago.
When I If ft school and went to work for
him I knew of the exlstenceof the 'tem
perance rule,' as it was called, and
thought it a perfectly good one. I had
not been a total abstainer, but was al
ways temperate, and one evening at a
serial gathering, at which my father was
present, ! joined the men in a drink. My
father heard of it, and next day I was
discharged. , 'It would be death to disci
pline If you ' remained,' my father said.
1 made a trip,- came buck and was re
encaged, and have never since that time
taken a drink." New York, Tribune.
A Resourceful Pleader :?
'. During the Maryland lawyers' convei
tlon at Cape May a g.oup.oi, lawyers' est
in rocking chalrj. on 'the ' .wirid-swejt
piazza of the hotel ,teiling excellent legv
stories, trie while watching si school Of
great, graceful porpoises dl -po; ting lii tSa
blue sea. i,.' ,..- ..r;, "'.' V. :.' J
I'lawscn .was ' a very., resourcefjil
p eader," said. George Whttelock of Baitt
more. : ', ..',- J ..- .' ,.."'''!
"Laws on a female client who-'wji
accused, of stealing a ham. ' He told for
oh the way to ; oourt that when in f.tRe
course of his 'argument he slapped.' tBe
rail of the Jury box she must "burst. Jnl')
tears. .The woman said she. would rp
member thir. , ;.'.', X . . . . 4 .,'';.' v J
"La wsori, though, forgot himself ' agd
Slapped the rail at .the climax, of-a funiy
story wherewith he was trying to get' On
the Jury's right side. The woman buiyt
into the most inappropriate sobs' afld
wails. .-
" "Why, madam, what in the world. ?s
the matter with s ou?' -raid the Judge. ?
''Well, jour honor,' the prisoner, an
swered, 'Mr. Lawson iold me to cry when
he slapped the rail, sir.'
"At this, with an air of triumph, Law-
son made a sweeping and regal gesturX
There, gentlemen or rae jury,',. ; fca
said, there I confidently leave my cas3.
Could any man on earth reconcile the
idea of crime with such candor and slra-i
pllcity as this?" " Washington Star.
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Here's a New Version.
"Talklnjg about dry towns,., have you
ever n-een in Leavenworth, Kart T", asked
the commercial traveler In the smoking
car. "No? Well, that's a dfy town fo
you, all right." ' ' ,' J.
'They can t sell liquor at all there??
asked one of the men, . ..--.-v, .' :. J
'Only If yon have, been, bitten- by-
snake," said the traveler. '.'They , have
only one snake In the town, and.- when T
got to it. the other day. after: standing
In a line for nearly half the day. It was
too tired to bite." Milwaukee Wtsootulnj
