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might be kept clear, sparkling, and most attractive 

 even in a thickly settled community. 



Cities support large parks for the recreation and 

 pleasure of their inhabitants. They have costly 

 parkways or boulevards. Why should they not 

 also have delightful walks ? Walking is said to be 

 the most healthful of exercises. It is certainly the 

 least expensive, and the border of a small stream ex- 

 tending through a parkway would be a most inter- 

 esting place for a walk. The bordering vegetation 

 might be retained. The parkway might fit the topog- 

 raphy, being narrow where the land on either side 

 was useful for buildings or home grounds, and wider 

 where the stream ran through a ravine or, a valley 

 unfitted without great expense for buildings or homes. 

 In many cases, such a parkway might be accessible 

 only by means of the path just proposed. In other 

 cases, when width and direction warranted, a drive 

 might be made in addition to the path. Speaking 

 from a practical standpoint, a development of this 

 kind might add many dollars to the value of real 

 estate on either side, instead of depreciating these 

 values by having the banks of the stream serve as a 

 dumping place for ashes, tin cans and other refuse. 

 The writer can recall streams, usually known by 



