The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-29

back door to Boyles, your first impress
sion is sure to be a good one for all
that you have seen has been pleasing.
If you enter via the car line or the
| road that follows it you pass through
| the very new part. This Is Inglenook,
and ii has been built. up during the
last two years. You like the new pay
| ing and the new paint, but there is
something else which makes the scene
particularly charming. You look at the
| houses nearest the car, and you look
| down the road to the right you catch
a glimpse of others farther away, then
| you realize what has delighted you and
pleased your sense of the artistic. 1t
| is that the natural grove has not been
| cut. Only enough trees have been cut
| to make room for the houses, and the
| result is wonderfully attractive. If
you enter from the opposite end, over
the road which follows the Birmingham
Mineral. you see before reaching the
| town proper a number of dairies, fields
and farm houses If you choose the
| third road you are doubtless making the
| trip by automobile. You cross the main
line of the Louisville and Nashville, you
| swing down from the crown of the
| track over a little cement bridge which
| spans winding stream, past the school
| house, and moment later you are in
| you have already seen, you are inter-
ested in seeing still more.
There are two churches. one is rather
on the order of a chapel, showing that
! it's congregation was too sensible to at
tempt something they could not afford.
| The outside is painted white, the inside 4
/ soft neutral shade. There are two quaint,
| sheltered entrances, leaving between
them on the inside a recess which forms
a bay window. the congregation of the
ether church is larger, therefore, Tie
building is necessarily larger. and there
are electric lights but there, too. nc,h-
| ing is dedicated to idle show. The front
of this church is shaded by an immense
! oak. Close by the church is the hand
some new home of the Funderbergs'. Di-
agonally across is the old Barton place.
| the house being placed in a grove hals a
block away from the street This is now
! the Russell home. and next to it is the
Parrish place. which was part of the
| original Barton property A short dis
| tance away is the terminus of the ear
| line around which center the drug stores.
the postoffice and several grocery and
dry goods stores. Until quite recently the
mail was sent out to a rural free delivery
route from Birmnsham: but now there is
a postoffice. In the same building Is DR.
Daly's new drug store. The furnishings
in the postoffice end in the drug store
are handsome and modern in every re-
spect. The Birmingham Mineral station.
which has been built only a short time
is nearby. Extending beyond are the
Louisville and Nashville yards with sco1 es
of tracks and innumerable engines and
freight cars. Practically all of the men
who live in Royles are employed by the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, while
many other employees live In Birmingham
and go back and forth, as there is all
night car service.
TIE school building occupies corner
lot on which there are a number of trees
At the back and at one side of The
grounds is a. natural grove which is
skirted by small stream. This strc,,n
is near enough to give the little folks
the joys of wading. and it is good material
for practical study. The teachers some
times carry their beginners geogra pby
class out there to learn the differences
between straits ana isthmuses, capes and
peninsulas. 1t is an obiging little stream
for 1T has ell the different land and
water formations that one stream could
have. First it is clear and swift with n
minia ture water fall, then it turns and
shows a bay, next there is very small
island, Just big enough to support the
roots of one tree. Farther on It's very
lazy and runs slowly, but it makes ,1p
for its Incidence by the irregularity of
its course which forms peninsulas straits
and all those things whose names puzzle
small brains.
Naturally. the setting of the Boyles
school is ideal. and all that limited means
could do to help has been done There
are six rooms to the building and there
Is the customary equipment: but what
impresses one most is not the material
things II is the atmosphere OF fneness
that threads the whole school life. It
10 that which cannot be initiated or af-