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rected the bills, got them through and signed by the governor in 

 three days. The bill, one of them, provides that trees may be 

 planted by the park board and at a cost of $5.00 per tree, not 

 more, and the actual cost is $3.00, and expense to be assessed 

 against property owner. The women worked quietly and care- 

 fully on the sanitary and garbage question — they tried to have 

 these matters turned over to the health department. But for 

 months there was war — contractors, pulls, and public opinion 

 were to be fought, but they were victorious and facts and figures 

 won out. The system was changed and money legitimately used 

 in these departments. 



I read an account recently of how the work began in Texas. 

 The University of Texas sent a delegate to the American league 

 — his ideas are right to the point. He said : We had Daughters 

 of the Republic and Colonial Dames and all that — we're proud of 

 them — but they didn't seem to help the city forward at all. Then 

 they federated the clubs and got together, doing the best they 

 can with their own peculiar needs. 



In Florida they have improvement and cemetery associations. 

 The latter work fell to the women, because it had to be done and 

 the gentlemen did not do it. They also built a new school-house, 

 furnishing it with blackboards, chalk, maps, etc. The settlers 

 are from the North and have Northern ideas. No grass is their 

 complaint. Remembering that "Whoever makes two blades of 

 grass grow where but one grew before — ," they planted grass 

 and trees and have as good lawns as in the North. The Cleve- 

 land Home Gardening Association is doing good work along 

 various lines — ^48,868 packages of seeds were sold to school 

 children at a penny a package. In September, the results were 

 shown by exhibitions of flowers in the various school buildings. 

 Parents and friends were invited and these children had their 

 first experience in cultivating the soil. After this 3,000 bulbs 

 were purchased and distributed, after being potted. Each room 

 had four or five and the children took great interest in the plants. 

 This so wrought upon the park commission that they planted a 

 muddy spot in one park with 50,000 bulbs, which was an event 

 in the city annals when they came into blossom. One of Cleve- 

 land's daily papers now offers a prize of $60.00 for best garden ; 

 second best, $30.00 ; best porch or window box, $25.00 ; second, 

 $TO.oo. Is it anv cause for wonder that Cleveland is world 



