THE PRIVATE GARDEN 



home, from cooking to embroidery; the training 

 of both sexes in all the social amenities ; and the 

 enlistment of more than a thousand cottage 

 homes in a yearly prize competition. 



It is particularly of this happy garden contest 

 that I wish to say a word or two more. In 1914 

 it completed its sixteenth season, but it is modelled 

 on a much older one in the town of Dunfermline, 

 Scotland, the birthplace of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, 

 and it is from the bountiful spirit of that great 

 citizen of two lands that both affairs draw at 

 least one vital element of their existence. 



We in Northampton first learned of the Dun- 

 fermline movement in 1898. We saw at once 

 how strongly such a scheme might promote the 

 general spiritual enrichment of our working peo- 

 ple's homes if made one of the functions of our 

 home-culture clubs, several features of whose 

 work were already from five to ten years old. 

 We proceeded to adopt and adapt the plan, and 

 had our first competition and award of prizes in 

 1898-99. 



Like Dunfermline, we made our prizes large, 

 and to this we attribute no small part of our 



133 



