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JTINE School Buildings testify generally to the efficiency of our public school 
system, but, have you ever noticed the pitiful attempts of individual I achers 
to instil ideas of beauty into the young mind by dreary little window boxes 
that struggle feebly for life, like children in sweatshops. 
Nothing Inspires Such DeUght 
in a child as observation of nature and natural things, and the child mind as 
does no other, to influence good and beautiful. Plant trees and shrubs around 
your school buildings, teach the children to respect them, and you will find a 
raising of the whole tenor of your school. A reference for trees will give 
children a refinement they will gel in no other way, and especially is this true 
of the children from the meaner districts of the large cities, where oftimes the 
only conception the little things have of ' the country" is baised on the im- 
pressions from the school yard. Give these little ones a fraction of the delight 
you used to know at the country school house. Ornament play grounds and 
school yards. The expense will be little compared with the results to the 
children, as well as to the civic pride. Our Landscape Architect will cheer- 
fully furnish plans and estimates for all school buildings. 
