THE PRIVATE GARDEN 



It is with this end in view as well as for 

 practical convenience that we have divided our 

 field into seven districts and from our "women's 

 council" have appointed residents of each to 

 visit, animate and counsel the contestants of 

 that district. The plan works well. 



On the other hand, to prevent the move- 

 ment, in any district, from shrinking into vil- 

 lage isolation; in order to keep the whole town 

 comprised, and, as nearly as may be, to win the 

 whole town's sympathy and participation, we 

 have made a rule that in whatever district the 

 capital prize is awarded, the second prize must 

 go to some other district. If we have said this 

 before you may slip it here; a certain repeti- 

 tiousness is one part of our policy. A competi- 

 tor in the district where the capital prize is 

 awarded may take the third prize, but no one 

 may take the third in the district where the 

 second has been awarded. He may, however, 

 be given the fourth. In a word, no two con- 

 secutive prizes can be won in the same district. 

 Also, not more than three prizes of the fifteen 

 may in one season be awarded in any one district. 



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