The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-18
nY MARIE nANKmEAD OWEN.

Hf MARIE BANkhHAn OWEN. tasned by American Civic Association
 North American Building, Phlla-
 delphia,
 A Hyma fer AsAer Day. tTo he sung by schools, to "Ameriea.'l ) God save thia tree we plant' And to all nature grant
 Sunshine and rain,
 Let not its branches fade. Save it From axe and spade
 save it for joyful shade-
 Guarding the plain. Neiehhored hy trees as tall.
 shape it for good.
 shape it to bench and stool.
 shape f so square ana rule, rule,
 Ged bless the wood.
 Lord of the earth ana sea.
 Prosper our planted tree.
 Save with thy might.
 Save us from incidence.
 Waste and iInpreyldence.
 And in thy eXcellences
 "" Henry tIanby Hay,
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 England has "The City Beautiful" zeal also, aa Is shown by the follow Ing from Boston paper: v
 "oyer in England there are now approaching dozen ot what they call '1ardon cities.' That Is to say towns ideali in plain from the start, care- fully built so as to aEford the largest opportunities for health, recreation. gardening and beauty In general for tenants with the Smallest Kind of in- comes. These model towns obvious ly must be the creation of large nass- es of capital and they hAvo been so far. for the most part. the playthings of mllllonAtrea. But some of them nave now been lived ln long enough to begin to furnish statistics of the comparative healthfulness of cities built for those who are to 1.-Two in them compared with those that are built for those simply meaning to make the most money possible out ot them. For Instance. in the three cities of Letohwerth. Bonneville and Port Sunlight (hutlt out of Sunlight soapl and the death rate per thous. and has been found to be from four to seven as against aixteen., tho aver age of twenty-six large towns. As for infant mortality the figures on the same comparison run from forty to eighty as against las, In default of any present movement of American millinaires in this town building tdl- rection Boston architect spenda his pipe dreaming upon some beautiful plans of his own. wholly on paper as yet, .. for the Associated Cottages, Limited with the accompaniment uf an eloquent essay of hts upon How We I.ive Now as Compared With How | We Might Live AereafteE'
 Dlseuasiag an amendment to the District Of Columbia appropritlon bill regarlang the maintenance if play grounds for children In the district congress Peters, of Massachusetts, said in part;
 "rhe city ,of Boston stands as the pioneer of the movement for play. grounds for children within city iim- It's and 1 believe it win be instrue- tive to the members briefly to learn some of the experience Of that city in this -dirsetloH
 '"rhe first epon-air gymnasium in America was the Charleshank, started in Boston in 1SS6, From modest be- ginnings lt has now spread until It's daily use forms-a part of the, llfa of the young people tn a crowded section of our city, Boston was also tho first city to provide sand gardens for the lttie children to play In and thous- ands dS little children now find their greatest pleasure In them
 "This system of open-air play. grounds Aas grown until at tho pres. ort time Boston has iae acres of play grounds on which the city has spent scarcely less than four million dollars Tho playgrounds include twenty-fou municipal playgreunds and twenty eight sehool plaNErounds, aud the cit, expends yearly sSs,0N0 for their main- tenance, The experiment was tried Of putting the school piaSsronnds under the control of the school Aommittee but it dld not meet with success and the plaSxrounds are now cared for by the park department. These play grounds are situated in all parts ei our city and furnish to our growine children e source ef pleasure, and by kerptnK thom on che streets and glv' l inr them healthfWl occupation build mn their minds and bodies and tr0lr them Into good citizens. EneetivelS administered, they are a part of eul | educational system and are regarded t3s highly essential In the development and protection Of the children,
 ''srils beltet has become SO uniVereal in Massachusetts that last year the State passed an aot which. provides that each city of 10000 inhabitants ol