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IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS. ^ 
Conducted by 
. Frances Copley Seavey. 
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Leave the World a pleasanter place than you foiimi it. 
KUK THKK SUCiCrESTIOXS APROPOS OF WIXTFK WORK. 
The difficulty experienced 
by some clubs in 
findi ug s u i t a b 1 e 
“before and after" 
material available 
for immediate use 
for lantern slides, 
to be used in the 
illustrated talks on the 
possibilities of I m - 
provement Society 
work that were recom- 
mended in this depart- 
ment of the November 
issue of I’AKK AXD 
CKMETEKV, surrnests 
the advisability of us- 
ing slides made from 
any available photo- 
graphs of barren, 
squalid, wind-swept, 
su n-baked scenes in a!- 
A DiicoRATJin ci.o'rnKs tcrnation with others 
made trom those of 
good planting, of well grown specimen plants or 
groups, or from any out-of- door view suggestive of 
pleasure and comfort as the outgrow'th of improved 
sanitary and rcsthetic surroundings. It would be a 
good thing to incidentally show that aesthetic sur- 
roundings, and sanitary surroundings, are almost 
synonymous — as they surely arc in effect. 
The subjects for poor examples will not be far 
to seek, even in winter. Go out and “take” any 
back yard where tin cans, bo.xes, barrels and ash 
heaps hold undisputed sway; or where shaggy, vol- 
cano-shaped w'ood piles, and b.ire posts for clothes 
lines are the chief features; schoolliouse grounds 
with dilapid tted fences and unscreened outbuild- 
ings; churches and other public buildings where 
there is shade for neither man nor beast; a long line 
of hitching rails forming the sole d coration of the 
principal business block of the village; the forlorn 
and unsightly ruin of the last fire still standing as a 
monument to the Public Siririt apparently buried 
beneath; of the nun! hole where the boys of the 
neighborho )d fl rat rafts, soil their clothes and ab- 
sorb malari.i — and so on, ad infinitum. 
There are innumerable specimens of the other 
class of subjects already photographed; and every 
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club will contain fertile minds and facile pens to 
furnish the matter to accompany the stercopticon 
views. 
Care should be taken to alternate the views in 
such a way as to supply telling and, if possible even 
startling, contrasts — extreme opposites following 
each other. 
For e.xample, one slide showing an arrangement 
of bare fences, four clothes line posts, a wheel- 
barrow and a chicken house, miglit be repeated be- 
tween those of a series of the opposite class, such 
as a yard with the fences screened by vines or 
shrubbery; home grounds giving glimpses of possi- 
bilities in the way of “summer parlors;” a vine gar- 
landed clothes post; and a Poppy-bordered walk 
leading to an alley gate. 
Such scenes shown on a large scale on a screen, 
are impressive, and clearly indicate the desirability 
of windows draped with purple banners in June and 
having a 
A HORDEK OE I'OI’PIICS. 
