The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-03-28
PICTURES OF POLITICIANS NIGHTMARES
Aggregations of Delegations to National Convention
Look Like Highway Robbers.-A Righteous
Man in Bad Company

ents are such sublimated jackasses as
Fairbanks and low-browed yaudevil-
lians as Hemenway.
The truth is that the original pur-
poses of this government have been
DETECTED, if not entirely nullif1ed. AS
near as anyone can discern at this
distance, the founders Of this republic
sought to protect the popular will
from every assault on it's expression
and integrity.
This purpose has, however. SEEM
ingly been hoist by its own petard., We
are just about as far from a pure dem
ccracy as We are from Mars.
Pure democracy, it is said, is an inn
possible ideal.
This may be. But at least Republic
may not necessarily become an abso-
lutte oligarchy.
There should be some way by which
the people could register their direct,
unhampered, honest and convinced ex-
preston.
The present way is certainly not
conducive to that expression.
There is nothing that charms the
tourist, or visitor or temporary resi-
dent in England and the continental
towns more than the decorative effects
achieved in the mise en- scene of a
city through the use of vines and WIN
dow-boxes.
In the poorer districts of London a
certain gayety is given the mean
streets" by the diversity of color pro-
vided in this manner.
The smallest cottage will have a box
on the window ledge filled with bright
flowers.
And in the famous west end" in the
aristocratic residence and hotel Sec
ton. it gives vivacity, life and charm
to the otherwise somewhat dull IA
cades of the English metropolis.
Why this is not more universally
adopted in the United States is not
explained unless the permanent resi-.
dents of any city or town have been
given over more to the material
side of life and are only now beginning
to consider it's aesthetic aspects.
Nothing adds more to picturesque
ness than vines.
Vines cover multitude of architec.
tural sins.
Some of these are being softened by
the vines now almost covering one
part of Lindley Hall, Earlham
1t takes a very hardy vine of this
/ character. however, to live in this eli.
mate. The small-leaved English ivy
cannot stand the rigors of our winters
One or two which had grown to pro.
portions in this town have been killed
within the past few years.
AS to window boxes, for long the
one on a window ledge of the Kelly
Building at the South East corner OF
i. Eighth and Main streets, was a delight
! to the eye.
Window-boxes are not possible, OF
course, where there are outside shut
tiers, but very few of the latter are
used nowadays.
On the down town business houses,
however. window-boxes could be used
with great effect.
The Y. M. C. A. Building, which has
a tremendous expanse of facade and
, side-wall could be made highly decora.
tive by the placement of window-box
es filled with bright-colored flowers
The attention of the Woman's Auxil
larry is respectfully called to this pos.
sible tangent to their activities
If the residents of Richmond are
| really interested in adding to the pic.
turesqueness of the streets nothing
, more conducive to that end could be
made available.
effect
The spiritual tone of a town might
be influenced through a change in its
physical ccmplexion-its mere actual
ont ward asnect