LOTS 



WE are a public spirited family. The o. m. 

 in particular looms large in discussions of 

 municipal art and municipal ownership, 

 high license and high bill-boards, and with much 

 sense of civic righteousness, cheerfully pays her 

 personal property tax, which is more than her rich 

 neighbors do. But when we are asked to subscribe 

 to the local improvement association, we balk 

 and consider long. 



To be sure they have sent out their white- wings 

 who have cleared away carloads of scattering 

 paper and tin cans and various unsightly rubbish, 

 and their watering carts have much mitigated 

 the stifling summer dust, for which blessings we 

 try to be thankful; but at the same time they 

 have done us deep and permanent injury, for 

 they have exterminated the brave field flowers, 

 weeds, they call them and they have driven away 

 the boys, equally obnoxious to their well ordered 

 minds, from playing ball on the vacant lots. 



