IMPROVEMENT SOCIETIES 



is no reason for deferring action to a special 

 season or until such action may seem timely. 

 All times, all seasons, are alike to such a 

 society, whose work must go on during the 

 entire year. Therefore get down to business 

 as soon as possible, be the time spring or sum- 

 mer, fall or winter. If you cannot work to 

 advantage, you can plan for work, and a good 

 plan to follow always enables a society to 

 dispose of its work to the greatest advantage 

 when working-time comes. 



Very much of the success of such a society 

 depends upon individual effort as directed 

 towards the improvement of the home grounds. 

 Let one person fall to work in earnest in clean- 

 ing up and beautifying his place, and what he 

 does will serve as an object-lesson to his neigh- 

 bors and incite them to imitate his action. En- 

 thusiasm is always contagious. Once get a 

 community enthusiastically at work, either in- 

 dividually or as an organization, in the line of 

 improvement, and success is assured, for en- 

 thusiasm will feed upon itself and grow as the 

 work progresses. I have seen the proof of this 

 in my own village, where an improvement 

 society resulted from one man's attempt to 

 beautify his home grounds. He accomplished 



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