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schoolhouse can at small cost be changed into one of com- 

 fort and beauty. In many places pupils have persuaded their 



FIG. 213. AN UNIMPROVED SCHOOLHOUSE 



parents to form clubs to beautify the school grounds. Each 

 father sends a man or a man with a plow, once or twice a 

 year to work a day on the grounds. Stumps are removed, 

 trees trimmed, drains put in, grass sown, flowers, shrubbery, 





FIG. 214. AN IMPROVED SCHOOLHOUSE 



vines, and trees planted, and the grounds tastefully laid 

 off. Thus at scarcely noticeable money cost a rough and 



