El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-09-06

fANH persons occupying rented houses pay not the least
w attention keeping up the yards and curb parking
Not only IS the grass allowed to go to ruin and weeds per
mtted 70 sagge everywhere but even trees are ao"ea
te die and shrubs and flowers that should be permanent
This neglect due laEness and caIelessness. The
nothing to do with It. These people waste
every month many times what it would cost to the
hose occasionally Just due to the al too prevalent
view that another mans property be abused or misused
long as there is direct penalty TO be feared
The same ugly performance the part Of tenants OF
rented houses is often with regard TO the interiors OF
houses Real estate agents can all tel true stones OF tne
condition IN which they have found houses after they nave
been given I'D By tenants Sometimes complete renovation IS
necessary with painting paperngs repairs TO WoooWoIk
and plumbing curtains and glass; everywhere Nearly
always departing tenants leave houses in filthy state
having made no attempt destroy the rubbish
they collected, OF to clean up the dirt they made.
These abuses not much among the poor people as
aiming those who Ike to ca themselves the better classes
and loudly al occasions that they are ladies' ano
gentlemen The poor often the decent the more
clearly, and the careful OF others property
The poor often take faithful not only OF the Interior
Of TIE houses they occupy but Of the growing things ont
sde-sTen though It cost them little work and httle
One can almost read character by the way family
leaves rented house after occupancy It tells whole lot
about man OF woman. And in the same way, one can
read character by the way tenant looks AFTER OF oo
the yard and garden and outhouses, and the curb parking
An III kept yard is seldom the result or indication OF
poverty Whether it be tenant house OF owned py the
ocrupant If the grounds are III kept nearly always means
that within is family Of snftlesss vasteru5 Ignorant
careless, and lazy people.
10 keep up an ordinary home place. whether BY tenant OF
BY the owner The cost Of water is talked about good
deal but actually it amounts to very little over the year 20
keep small home place II order Many man VINO
negects his home surroundings spends as much N Gay
for his lunch and cigar his monthly water bill would
cost he used the hose And OF two movies 1orgone
The agricultural department Is publishing attractive
illustrated bulletins to induce country jewellers to pay more
attention to home surroundings. The bulletins are as
Applicable IN the city IN the country. Better homes
mean better citizenship and IN general to have better homes
means much matter Of money as matter OF tax
nF thought and appying very little well directed energy
A lot Of good money IS unvlsely SPENT On country
places vel IN cities, whereas less money Would 60
further If It were wisely used In Fl Paso we nave examples
Of public parks which immense SUNS have been spent
without obtaining the best permanent effects because much
Of the spending was done without competent supervision
and without having definite plan The thing true
many farms where building and planting nave Deen done
without taking thought for the permanent effect
The department bulletin wisely lays stress On the IN
p6tauce good surroundings n influencing young
people toward better things Children responsive 10
beauty and comfort which makes home more honey mas
direct effect On the future Of boys and girls Comfort
and beauty are closely allied. Is not always richness
and saboratsness that make for comfort; the contrary
extreme simplicity is often the most pleasing restIus
comfortable and uplifting IN the home surroundings Inc
basis Of good planning Is good taste, and that can be
aroused and directed and developed when II IS not
natigs But example is Of the strongest Incentives 70
homo bettsrmsnt.
to eat ard sleep And ths externas Of home are as IN
uortznt as the internals II is merely matter Of IN
Pressing the usiqhbors OF making show. The surrouno-
nes Of home have much to do with creating the best
mosphers for the development Of and happy nome
lie,
Many shorrble ezampIss7 are pictured in the agrirul
tural bu1stn-houses otter costly where neither GOOD
taste nor good sense has been brought to bear; grounds
planned and planted without regard for the first principles
Of landscape gardening but representing Just as neh
money and effort spent as If they had been done right