The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1906-07-27

town. has been purchased and con
verted into a Gildhall and shops TO
handicraft work. The land around thu
house has practically all been appro
priated TO the use of garden schoo
and laid out in ehildren's gardens
The director of the gardens is Mis-.
Elizabeth S. Hill of Groton, who las
year conducted the school gardens il
BrOokline and Groton. Over A hun
dred children are already at work ant
many more. almost two hundred in all
have applied for space. 1t is an inter
esting sight, and a poor commentary
on our public school system, to SCI
the wistful look of the children mo-
in it, as they watch the fortunate ones
and inquire of the instructors as tC
how long they will have to wait
Many children not connected with the
school watch the workers and play on
the grounds, so that it has become a
children's center for the town.
The opening or the garden school has
aroused an interest among other pri.
vate organizations in the neighborhood
and the Women's Club of WATERFOWL
also under Miss Hills supervision, as
is still another opened by the Women's
Social Science Club of Newton, whose
garden is on Jackson Road near Non
antum.
On the outer boundry of the town,
the old Emerson Place mas been pur-
chased and set aside as a garden
school for boys and even men who de
sire to do practical work. The plots in
this garden are large enough to permit
of practical experiments and to even
supply quite a quantity of vegetables.
which each gardener is allowed to APP
propriate to his own use. The only
requirement Is that each gardener pro-
vide his own tools and seed and pay
sufficient attention to the instruction
and to his work to keep his plot in fair
condition and in harmony with the
garden as a whole. There is in this
garden plenty of space not taken and
it offers a unique and valuable oppor-
tunity for any one desiring such work
The garden is supervised by young
man with practical experience in
market gardening.
WEAVE BEAUTIFUL THINGS.
The weaving department, the only
handicraft department as yet de-
veloped in the Gid, is supervised by
Miss j. A. Turner, formerly with the
experiment station for the blind in
Cambridge. Miss Turner, assisted by
her sister, has several looms already
in working order and instruction has
been taken up. The aim of the work
IN. Ia, l.
craft work, is not to have a weav-
ing establishment for the production of
goods, but to conduct a school in
weaving and design where women in
the community may learn to do work
which may be carried on in their
homes. This, as in the case of the
croft work, will enable them to occupy
spare time, which would be otherwise
wasted or improperly spent, in con-
genial, healthy and remunerative en-
ployment. 1t is hoped and believed
that such work will enable many
women who have to supplement their
income to do it In their homes and not
be forced into factories and other I'M
conditions. A system will
be developed whereby looms will be
supplied by and the product sold |
through the Gid. BY this method ex-
penses will be kept at minimum and |
he highest profits accrue to the
HOME LANDS IN SMALL
PARCELS.
The more far-reaching and substan-
.ial feature of the movement is
he acquisition and subdivision of !
and into small tracts for actual croft
purpose as outlined above. This close
v resembles the schemes developed in
Iifnhin port SUNLIGHT Rn11rnnriIIo and