Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-03

ouldA In Woman's World for October.
us not WONDERFUL that the great people q Lon
don, doing 80 little for themselves In the way of
decorative beauty, do nothing Whatever for the
popuiace. An ugly cucumber-frame like the
Battersea Park Hall, gaudily colored; Q wagon
Drawn by poor. suffering horses, and laden with
shrlek1ng Children going 20 Epping Forest; open
ar preachers ranting hideously Of hell and the
oeVi; gfn-palaces, music halls and the aring gas
jets on barrows OF rottng fruit are all that London
provides In the way OF enjoyment or decoration for
us multitude. To drive through London any
cruel ugliness and dulness OF ali things around,
rom the staring theatrical posters on the walls TO
the helmet OF the burly policeman, who takes half
might be done TO make London more picturesque
at no very great cost. The trees which makes the
NAN such glory q 20
what an establishment would an avenue De 70
Pail Mail, TO Portltnd place, 10 Regent street. TO
Quantities OF trees planted all about the
houses OF parliament would take away that squalid
and vulgar look which 50 dtsngures all the pre-
c1ncts VI those houses and OF the nooe abbey ITSELF
II the many old gardens or the great houses which
have been pulled Down had been preserved they
would have lent freshness, verdure. and dignity
to many tnoroughIares OF London. Hyde Park re-
quires more trees than IL Is planted with, and all
the roads north and south OF 1t might, with ad-
vantage, have avenues Trees alone would re-
move Tue awful ness, nakedness, and weight
OF bricks and stucco which lies like lead on the
sui as Que urtseS through CROMWELL roau, knnis-
more gardens and ALI the rest OF the stony wilder
ness OF south Kensington.
Then music, again, might easily be heard in the
open air much Oitener than IL Is II the military
bands OF the Household Brigade, instead OF being
allowed TO play Tor hire at pigeon-shoOtlng and
horticultural retes and balls, private aud public,
and those various other innulnerable engagements
that take them here, there and everywhere, were
made TO play Tor the public In the metropolis every
day In different quarters. To cite once more the
exlmple OF MUNICH how delightful the frequent
bursts OF military music at all hours make tn IL
pleasant city; what gaety IL lends 70 civic life;
what pleasure IL gives 1t 10 the very poorest /!
Anu now easy and now wise 1t would be TO give
the same gaiety, the same pleasure, to the Jaued
London crowds? When l saw the London people
watching and waiting so gOOd-humoredly Tor q
Sun Al platoon OF Lie Guards and u few court car
rldYes containing the royal family to pass on their
way 10 a railway station, 1 thought what pity
IL was not To give that unseltsh aud gOod-nalured
crowd more out-of-dOor graJuitous enjoyment; not
the sentimental Trash OF peoples palaces, which
only new tnem up under a ROOT and make Peck
nln-Pasteurs out OF them, but such enjoyment as
one sees IN The crowds Oh Paris, OF Vienna, Brus
Seis. or QUO smaller clLies all over Europe. Some
laules IN uonnets, some gentlemen in tall hats
Win detachment or Two OF heavy cavalry, Is all
tnat the London mulIitudes see In the way Of q
royal progress. That they look out for this is an
instance or that exceeding good nature and fac
uIty Ior being amused by small things which are
TWO qualities in them most unwiSely but most
CONTINUALLY neglected by their rulers.