4 CHILDREN'S GARDENS 



clearer, better defined, and because this is so, social 

 economists are giving more attention to prevention 

 against evil. The greatest preventive measure of all, 

 which is now rapidly assuming vast proportions, is to 

 incorporate in the general scheme of common school 

 education, a simple, direct method of instruction in 

 natural laws, which will result in a public that will 

 give intelligent and effective co-operation in the en- 

 actment and fulfillment of laws for the public good. 



For a few thousands to take technical, complex 

 courses in universities, resulting in highly trained 

 specialists in Civics, Sanitation, or Morals, is not 

 enough. The public and private schools must pro- 

 duce a general public that will co-operate efficiently. 

 Educators realize this, and are earnestly working to 

 evolve a system of instruction in the schools, which 

 will give this result. 



The fascination of the Garden has not yet been 

 shown to the general public, nor the full value of the 

 knowledge to be gained there. To most people it is a 

 place to grow vegetables and flowers to supply physical 

 needs, but to a few it is the theatre of Nature's mys- 

 teries, where man can learn control of great forces. 



We are indebted to the powers of observation and 

 deduction of a certain engineer for tunnels under 

 water. One day he watched a species of worm con- 

 struct its burrow by boring a short distance and then 

 lining the wall with a substance to strengthen it. As 

 he watched, the suggestion came to him, that with 

 modifications this was the way for man to build tun- 



