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that while in England and in Germany one now passes 
from neatly kept streets directly to well kept country 
roads, things used to be just the same across the water 
as with us to-day in these respects. 
To reach similar ends we have only to be up and 
doing. It is especially necessary to fix the attention of 
the rising generation on the desirability of better 
things, and specifically on the heathenish methods now' 
generally practiced by those who claim to have civiliza- 
tion and even “culture.” 
Is is civilized to walk along a pavement leaving a 
trail of apple cores, banana and grape skins, and filthy 
expectoration in one’s wake ? Is it even common 
decency to so pollute the path and endanger the lives 
and limbs of those who must come after ? Is it not, in 
fact, only another form of “after us the deluge” spirit 
which the present generation vehemently deplores in 
notorious members of a gcneraticn past and gone? 
By sliming the path and poisoning the air of con- 
temporaneous travelers along the path of life, one is 
certainly doing one’s best to make the world a dis- 
agreeable place and to people it with a miserable, halt- 
ing, hacking, coughing multitude. These are not over- 
drawn conclusions. People do break bones and even 
become paralyzed by falling over the non-convention- 
alized patterns spread over pavements by selfish, self- 
centered people ; and science has decided that the 
spread of the national disease, consumption, is largely 
due to the wholesale distribution of germs through the 
“freedom of spitting” of the great American public. 
A habit that is so filthy, so thoroughly disgusting, and 
such an infringement of the laws of common decency, 
that its practice on public pavements, in cars, corridors. 
vestibules, churches, and public buildings in general, 
should be sufficient to bar those who practice it from 
reasonably polite society. As for the remotest claims 
to culture — but words fail. To properly express a 
skirt wearer’s opinion on this subject clearly involves 
impropriety. Only a man, or the free use of a carefully 
chosen Swedish vocabulary could equal the emer- 
gency. 
After wholesome surroundings, the next question in 
importance would seem to be streets and roads so good 
that all the people of every community may readily get 
about. Places of business, pleasure and beauty should 
be made accessible, otherwise they are unavailable and 
might about as well be non-existent. 
The ordinary country roads of England are said to 
compare favorably with our Park roads, and roadside 
paths (several inches higher than the road beds) are 
maintained along many of them, especially in the vicin- 
ity of towns and villages. These 
are frequently shaded by trees ®r 
by the justly celebrated “hedge- 
rows” which are kept in order on 
the outer side by the authorities, 
who also place seats at intervals 
along the paths. In the Black For- 
c«t of Germany, the great Scwarz- 
wald Verein, a large and active im- 
provement society, which was 
“founded in 1864 by sixty-six 
members and which now numbers 
about 3,500, chiefly business men 
and officials,” cares for roads, sur- 
veys routes to inaccessible attrac- 
tions, furnishes seats or little shel- 
tering buildings at points that con- 
trol fine views, sets up finger posts 
to guide visitors, and even indicates 
by color marks the character of 
ascents to such coigns of van- 
tage. In short, it concerns itself 
with the material and the aes- 
thetic sides of tourist life, for the material advancement 
of its own practical advantage. It makes beauty pay 
dividends. 
Miss Dock, of Harrisburg, Pa., to whom we are 
under obligations for facts about foreign societies, 
through her pamphlet “A Summer’s Work Abroad”, 
which appeared as Bulletin No. 62 of the Pennsylvania 
Department of Agriculture, says of such places in the 
Black Forest region as are shown in the accompanying 
illustrations, that it is “hopeless to attempt to describe 
the fresh cleanliness and beauty of the little mountain 
villages with their net-work of irrigating ditches, smil- 
ing meadows, and good roads and paths.” 
The Appalachian Society of New England has done 
similar work in this country, and there is plenty of 
KRONENBRUCKE, OR CROWN BRIDGE, FREIBERGLOZ. 
A fine object lesson for residents of river towns in this country, as it shows shaded roads and 
paths (country roads and paths as this is not in a park , turfed river banks, a splendid 
avenue of trees and a substantial and attractive bridjre. 
