44. IMPROVEMENT OF HOME AND 

 SCHOOL YARDS. 



Home and School Yards. It is not enough that our 

 farms produce large crops to be sold at good prices and 

 the business thus be made profitable. We should also 

 look to our surroundings. We should have good, com- 

 fortable, well-arranged homes, and the grounds about 

 them should be made as attractive as possible. We shall 

 be better men and women if we live in beautiful sur- 

 roundings than if we live in poorly-kept and ugly quar- 

 ters. Schoolhouses and school yards, too, should be 

 made as beautiful as possible. A great many people 

 would be glad to have beautiful homes and schoolhouses 

 and fine yards if they but knew how to obtain them at 

 small cost. School children who are interested can do 

 much toward beautifying the entire neighborhood in 

 which they live. 



A few general directions are given that may help in 

 making our homes and our schools delightful places in 

 which to live. 



Make a Plan. It is well to make a plan before attempt- 

 ing any change of things as they are. This will make it 

 easy to do part of the work this year, to add to it next 

 year, and so on until the plan is carried out. Without 

 a plan, we may make improvements that we shall find do 



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