Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-26
The London Parks.

From woman's World
1t is not wonderful that the great people of Lon
don, doing so little for themselves In the way OF
decorative beauty, do nothing whatever for the
populace. An ugly cucumber frame like the Bat
tersea Park Hall, gaudiy colored; a wagon drawn
by poor suffering horses and laden with Shrek
Ing children going to Epplng Forest; open air
preachers ranJing hideousiy Oh hell and the devil.
gin palaces, music halls and the fiaring gas lets
on Dafrows OF rottfng fruit, are all that London
PROVIDES III the way OF enjoyment or decora-
tlOn Tor It's multitudeS.. To drive through Lon
don anywhere is to teel ones eyes literally ache
WIN the cruel uglfness and dullness OF all things
around, from the starring theatrical posters on the
walls TO the helmet OF the bury policeman VINO
taxes haT an hour TO beat out q dogs brains. Yet
So much might be done to make London more pic
turesque at no very great cost. The trees which
makes the Paris boulevardS such glory or green
leaves in May mght have their likenesses in Lon
don streets. What an establishment would an
avenue be to Pail Mall TO Portland place TO Re-
gent street, TO Buckingham Palace road, 10 i've
hundred other places. Quantities OF trees planted
ali about the houses OF parliament would take away
that squalid and vulgar look which so disfigures
ali the precincts or those houses and OF The nople
aooey Itself IL the many old gardens OF the great
houses which have been pulled down had been
preserved they would have lent freshness YER
dure, ana dignity to many thoroughfares OF Lon
don: Hyde Park requires many more trees than it
Is plahleu with, ana all the roads south and north
OF IL might with advantage have avenues. Trees
alone would remove the awful newness Naked
ness, and weight OF bricks and stucco which lie
Ike lead on the soul as one drives through Crom-
wei road, EnnisInore Gardens, and all the rest Of
the stony Wilderness oil South kenslngton. Then
music, again, might easily be heard in the open
air much oIUener than IL is II the military bands
OF the Household Brigade, instead OF being al.
lowed TO play for hire at pigeon shooting and hor-
tlcultural 1eteS and balls, private and puDiic
and those various other innumerable engage
ment5 that take them here, there, and every
where, were made to play Tor the public In the
metropolis every day in different quarters TO cite
once more the example or MUNICH how delightful
the frequent bursts OF military music at ali hours
make That pleasant city, what gayety il lends 10
CIVIC life, what pleasure IL gives TO the very poor
est! And how easy and how wise 1t would DE to
give the same gayety, the same pleasure 70 the
Jaded London crowds! When l saw the London
people watching and waiting so good humoredy
Tor small platoon OF Lie Guards and few close
carriages containing The royal family TO pass on
their way 10 railway station, thought what
pity IL was not u give that unseliish and good
ndlured crowd more out-oi-door gratuitouS enjoy
ment; not The sentimental trash OF peoples pal
aces, Wnle d only new them UP under a roof and
make PeckSnlf-P aSteurS out OF them, but such en-
JOyInenL as one sees in the crowds OF Paris OF VI
emma, OF Brussels or 800 smaller cities all over
Europe. Some ladies in DOnnets, some gentlemen
IL tail mats. with a detachment or Two OF heavy
Cavalry, - AL that the London multiUudes see in
the Way OF a royal progress. That they look out
Ior THIS Is an Instance Vi that exceeding good ma
lure and 14cu.ty Tor being amused by small things
winch are TWO qualities in them most unwiseiy
but most continually, neglected by their rulers.