New-York tribune., 1903-02-24
WOMEN AND CIVIC PRIDE.
What the Former Do in Beautifying Town
and Countyy-Dr. Tolman's
Last Lecture.

Women to-day as never before IN the history Of
the world especially those leaving institutions for
higher education, have opportunity TO shape and
% guide by their personality and influence every
movement for promoting higher social and indus
-risl Efe" said Dr. Tolman. yesterday, in the con-
cluding Lecture Of his Present Day Prob
lens at the home Of Miss Helen Miller Gould
Desire without knowledge he continued. is
nor o7Iv Intellectual but deteriorating. For the
press purpose Of enabling men and women desirous
of rendering personal service TO offer personal
help and guidance the American institute OF Social
Service was organized TO Place at their dis
ross- failures as well as successes OF past move
1nen1s 50 that every bit of the worlds experience
nay serve as a working model. SO that We may
avoid mistakes and utilize at once successful effort
This course Of lectures Llus-rI.es what 1he inst-
-u-e IS doing in the collection and Interpretation
OF The wealth Of material IN its storehouse-
Before and after taking might have been the
r-f4 Of the lecture. its lessons were saplently
enforced by the Views Of village lanes and city
streets hare and uning1ting before being struck
tv the wave Of city Improvement, transformed into
beauty spots thereafter. He exhibited first desc
late village streets hideous aIeys staring lines Of
xnitewashed picket. rurnbledown shacks given over
10 the advertising iend. bare little village parks
quite innocent Of Improvement
This indicates the typical village spirit said he,
-hetc Indifferent with idea OF civic patrl-
o-is- or responsibility for higher social life Such
Z village is absolutely nothing but collection
q houses and fences. Il needs to be shaken up
EMPOWERED IN VINES.
Then Re showed the same spots after the wave OF
village Improvement had given the desired shaking
One n5l-rhIc village he designated merely
"a box with some holes punched for doors ana
windows" 4 later view showed it embowered in
vines and roses. as pretty any summer picture
could well be He described some Of the results
achieved by the offering Of prizes for the best
kept grounds. either by societies or individuals
Cleveland has been particularly successful IN this
z~6a
rte5 thousands Of packages Of seeds and has
offered prizes year after year for the best plants
and gardens
one frz- prize OF SIS was offered for the best
kept grounds 70 be given only TO boys or girls
under fourteen years. boy Of thirteen and half
years determined 10 have The prize The screen
showed ms home before ne began: the back STOOD
Of tiny one story frame house. an unpreposseSs-
ing hack yard. bounded by a hopeless ooaro lehce-
The picture Of his prize grounds showed the young
s,er q work in a lovely pot. whose scheme
of Identification he mad planned himself Inc mouse
vas hidden in rioous vines which dropped lovingly
over porch and doorway The fence nae dlSaf
peare5 behind Ieafy screen Of trailing tendriis'
with tai plants banked in terraced masses aS4lii9'
It. The smooth plot Of green grass hileo me ce'ie
of this eaarrning little back yard
Or Tolrnan mentioned q little mining community
or the shores Of Lake Superior, in which coIslo-
eriug all tn circumstances, he thought ne hao
found The best results The houses we're pare ana
couaroru-ace scattered irregl4larly over d bleak
patch of rocky soil. The company offered TTlzes
for -he best kept ground. and a further stinlu-
l1s ogerea a greenhouse from which shrubs. trees
and plants were sold at cost for the work Remark
able changes were effected in the appearance of
some Of the grounds
BELIEVES IN SCHOOL GARDENS.
Dr Tolraar advocated school gardens as one Of
The most Efficient means OF cutivatng sense OF
beauty and love Of the soil France Austria Ger
many and switzerland have thousands II such gar
Gems. and the movement IS increasing apidlE IN
America
Al extremely desolate little country church care
1uly fenced in from the street by high picket
fence evoked the remark from the lecturer tgt
the Christian Endeavor Society OF that church
could find no more Christian thing 10 GO than 10
improve and beautify the grounds of the church,
nothing else would have greater social upitt on
The community.
One finds the spirit Of improvement ana the 'oNe
of beauty in the most unexpected places. s1la ihe
lecturer and then he showed lonesome catlh on
suabaked Arizona plain The frontier woman III
the doorway was eaunt and unlovely but a mass "i
brilliant bloom rioted before the door
But the camera did not show village and rlrai
section 20 be the greatest sinners IN s7s1hellcs.
l5n the contrary. the hdeous billboard, Wh-ch =
t1e thumb mark Of commercial ctNlllZtll"
puts forth foulest excrescences In CITY tnofo1G
larfS- Or. Tolman showed even PARIS yoLsHt
and peauJifeG q expense OF hufdredN o. Iic1
sands q the peoples money the approaches 10