CHAPTER IV 



IMPKOVEMENT OF SCHOOL GROUNDS 



The editor * of a well-known magazine re- 

 cently asked five hundred business men all over 

 the country "whether in their opinion there is 

 any financial value in attractive surroundings to 

 a business plant.'' Ninety-five per cent of tliose 

 rej)lying declared that the product of a factory 

 or a business concern is much more valuable 

 when the factory or office is clean, attractive 

 and beautiful, and when the employees coine in 

 daily contact with orderly surroundings and 

 see grounds made attractive by plants and flow- 

 ers. Furthermore they declared that such well- 

 ordered business concerns are commercially a 

 decided benefit to the community. 



A question of equal significance might be 

 asked of educators, preachers and parents, 

 whether" in their opinion tliere is any moral, in- 

 tellectual or spiritual value in attractive school 

 surroundings; whether children are happier or 

 their work is made more efficient by daily con- 



* Mr. Louis E. Van Norman, editor of Home and Flowers, 

 November, 1902. 



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