88 With Feet to the Earth 



Parks have been created, boulevards, 

 drive-ways, and bicycle paths extended, 

 shelters, baths, and band-stands erected, 

 summer towns have grown up on the 

 beaches, picnic groves and dancing pa- 

 vilions have multiplied, boats ply on urban 

 and suburban waters, train and trolley-car 

 are carrying people from the tenements to 

 places where they can gasp and drink beer. 

 To offset this lure into the open the shows 

 of town must be more picturesque, more 

 varied, more beautiful, more naughty, 

 sometimes. And, truly, the popular en- 

 tertainments in our American cities 

 saving only the drama would be melan- 

 choly curiosities if they could be revived. 

 There were the panoramas, gaudily painted 

 on canvas and impressively unrolled before 

 the multitude. They represented Arctic 

 explorations, scenes in the American wars, 

 the Irish lakes, the Mississippi. Who ever 

 hears of them to-day? It is doubtful if 

 one has been shown since the Centennial. 

 If they are in existence, you will find them 

 roaming through the farm districts. The 

 villages have advanced with the towns, but 



