five feet on a one-hundred-foot lot. In such cases the de- 

 signs should guarantee an absolute originality, and every 

 value in light and shade, in slope and rise, be put to fullest 

 use. Such appointments would then add further worth and 

 attraction for the benefit of our charges. For as we leave 

 the level land and flee to the mountains to spend our vaca- 

 tion, so will a child avoid the street and seek the gutter and 

 the bank on the unimproved lot to enjoy its pastime. 



Originality in the designs as fitted to level areas must 

 consist in the advantage which has been gained by over- 

 coming obstacles and hindrances previously existing. I give 

 five illustrations for kindergarten-grounds on lots of one- 

 hundred-foot frontage assuming in every instance that 

 different conditions as to exposure and limitations through 

 neighboring buildings exist. No matter how many kinder- 

 garten-grounds may be established in any one community, 

 no two of them should be identical in design. 



As properly chosen school grounds are of such extreme 

 rarity that it is impossible to refer to them, I have been 

 forced to confine my plans to areas separated from grounds 

 used by older school-children. I wish to state, though, that 

 concentration of school grounds would result in greater 

 benefits in so far as we secure territory which is more open 

 and impresses as more noble in its setting. Communities are 

 slow to set aside the necessary grounds for breathing spots 

 in our crowded cities, yet if all schools were set in entire 

 blocks, surrounded by useful and pleasant grounds, a great 

 problem of our economical conditions would be solved. 



