OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



upon great fields of greenness around it, such 

 need of park land will not for a long period 

 of years be felt. 



Eventually, not only will the instinctive 

 rural longings of the masses stimulate to this 

 struggle to recover the lost birthright of trees 

 and turf, but the very vanities of city growth 

 will demand a larger airing than populous 

 streets can supply; and the man who loves a 

 sleek team, and indulges in its display will 

 vie with the workman (who wants romp- 

 ing place for his children) in clamor 

 for a public park. If our vanities and 

 our healthful tastes were always as closely 

 yoked, we should have a better growth from 

 the yoking. However, it may come about — 

 whether from the natural impulses of a 

 crowded population to ally themselves once 

 again with the bounteous amplitude of the 

 fields, or whether from the artificial desire to 

 give room and exhibition to equipages 

 — it is undeniable that all towns of 

 ambitious pretensions and of assured and 

 rapid growth do, after a certain pe- 

 riod of street packing, bestir themselves in 

 a feverish way to secure some easy lounging- 

 place under the trees. Unfortunately the stir 

 is, for the most part, at so late a day, that all 



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