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to dig in the garden and find worms. This permission 

 was granted on one condition, and that was, as soon 

 as the second crop was planted, the garden was not 

 to be molested. As long as an unplanted space re- 

 mained, this permission was still granted, but from 

 the day that the last seed was planted, not a case of 

 intrusion occurred. What greater evidence could be 

 produced as to the respect in which this garden is 

 held? Three-quarters of an acre of ground within 

 300 feet of the river, and not a hole dug, after per- 

 mission was withdrawn. 



At the great International Tuberculosis Exhibit in 

 Washington, a special award of a gold medal was 

 made to the exhibit of work done in this Children's 

 School Farm, DeWitt Clinton Park, shown in pic- 

 tures and model, and with one accord, the six thou- 

 sand delegates from all over the world claimed that 

 the children's school farm was the solution of one 

 of their greatest problems as to what to do with the 

 child with a tendency towards tuberculosis, or for 

 those in whom the disease has been arrested or cured. 



Eminent physicians claim that the hours spent in 

 such a garden would strengthen delicate children 

 enough to enable them to offset the unwholesome en- 

 vironment of the home where they must live. 



A picture of the happy joyous children digging, 

 spading, raking, hoeing, planting, watering, after five 

 hours of confinement in the schoolroom is convincing 

 proof of what such a garden does toward straight- 

 ening of round shoulders, encouraging of deep breath- 



