Connecticut western news., 1881-10-19

u66U or uT6Sl IS f8 6uluCl0uG 'Ee6SOn TOT | going to purgatory. Iknow that every cold, worthless swamp, sandy, unpro- duct1ve plain and bleak, barren hillside ought to be covered with growing trees. It would be wise and profitable invest ment so to cover them. Many, but not all of the long highways in the open country should be bordered with rows, or better still, with varied groups and clusters of trees. Sacred groves should be cherished, T and arborous parks, public and private, should be cre- ated and held in reverent care. know there is nothing more altogether lovely than such tree as, the old crippled West Springfield elm once was, whose breeding branches shaded 10000 square feet of turf at noon, and which, with its sisters, kept the quiet street dewy and damp till long after midday. I know it is wicked vandalism to. destroy tree that stands where 1t belongs and grows as tree has 8 right to grow, and that all the fine architecture we could pay for would not be half as fine as the trees in Court square. But I know, too, that a tree which throws it's shadow on 8 human habitation through the sunniest part of the day is a dangerous member of society, and ought to be destroyed without remedy. Dr. Bowditch long ago pointed out the intimate relation between shaded homes and pulmonary diseases, and there is not an intelligent physician anywhere who will not cry Amen to the invocation for more sum- light. Blue glass helped multitudes of invalids, partly through faith, chiefly because. it set them in the sunshine, which even blue glass could not wholly deprive of its beniicent influences. Shade trees so near to our houses and so dense of foliage as to prevent bright colored flowers from blooming under heath them, and the grass from turning brown in seasons of drought are a sure promise of mold, mildew and malaria outside-not to mention mosquitoes, worms, slugs and all sorts of cold, clam my, creeping things-and inside, of damp walls, musty linen, rheumatic men, nervous women and pale, puny children"
 "Now, see here, said John, who had kept silent from sheer astonlshment, "that doesn't go down. Aren't we sent off to the Adirondack woods to cure everything from consumption to whoop- g-cough-from the asthmatic to the zymotic and back again ? My theory is that we ought to bring the woods to town, make forest of the village. Then we could stay at home the year round, live like civilized beings and save the trouble and expense of camping out"
 eff you don't see the difference be- tween living in well-built which means bottle-tight England house with all the modern conveniences and abominations, standing on narrow, level street, covered all summer long with thick canopy of green leaves and caterpillars' nests, shut in by adjoining houses and fences so closely that the stagnant air can only creep slowly around between them (except during tornadoes, when you get the street dust and other solid filth thrown in)-if you can t see the difference between this and living in canvas-tent or log cabin in an open forest among the mountains you need something more than advice, you need brains" se v3a ,...... John is good-natured; moreover, when man asks for advice he must take what is given, but he is too fond of contro versy. ''How does it happen" he asked, "that in spite of these horrid shades and deadly damps, your fatal sewer-gas and abounding malaria, that most people continue to live anG grow nicely ?"
 "Pm tired of that question as an argument. They don't live and grow nicely. I won't ask you to get the opinions of the doctors. Go first to the cemeteries, and when you have read a few hundred dates and 'ages just by way of reminder of those who don't live at all, pursue your investigations on your own street and among your own friends and neighbors. How many houses can you enter where the men are perfect specimens of manly vigor and endurance, where the women never know neuralgia, headache, backache, sideache or heartache, and have never once thought of enlisting in the great army under Gen. De Bllity where the children 'never had a days sickness, nor kept their mother awake single night? Tell me how many such houses you will probably find. We all live and grow nicely, do we?"
 John was afraid to answer, so he asked another impertinent question
 "A little while ago folks were all dying of sewer gas and garbage; now it's the shade trees that kill them, but I'll be
 liberal and allow both points. Now do
 you really suppose we should all live to
 be 873 without ache or pain, if we
 would cut down the trees, take our stools
 and sit in the sun, and at the same time
 abolish the sewers p
 "I don't suppose we shall live AS we
 ought, as the Creator intends us to live,
 till we have cured our own weaknesses
 and ignorance, checked our thoughtless,
 wicked folly and wasteful excess. There
 is no probability that this will be done
 all at once. None the less should we
 keep at work as we have opportunity
 and when we see an evil head, hit it.
 There's chance for you now to let in g
 little sunshine. Don't let it pass unim.
 proved. or the work may be taken out