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that minister to which the people point with pride 
and affection. 
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As a means for raising funds for improvement work 
this department suggests various summer pleasure ex- 
cursions such as trolley rides, cars being chartered and 
tickets sold to desirable people only ; steamboat trips 
on the same principle, and tally-ho coaching parties. 
These couUl be made remarkably pleasant for the par- 
ticipants and should pay well. If properly planned 
and carefully carried out they are sure to be popular. 
There are always plenty of people willing to pay for a 
little innocent fun. To make improvement work pop- 
ular with your townsmen, give them a good time. 
Electric or steam launches fitly inscribed, decorated 
and illuminated would make a pretty procession at a 
summer resort ; even well-conducted hay-rack rides 
might be made a source of amusement and of monev. 
Try some of these things, of think up something better 
and tell us all about it for the benefit of others. If 
there is a “good time,” permit us to be “in it.” 
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Airs. Emma Shafter Howard, Oakland, Cal., Presi- 
dent of the Women’s Agricultural and Horticultural 
International Union, lives in Oakland, a suburb of San 
Francisco. The idea of the Union originated with 
Hrs. Howard, at the time of the International Con- 
gress of Women Workers, held in London, during the 
summer of 1899, which she attended as the California 
delegate. The prospectus of this organization, as 
given in the Quarterly Leaflet, the periodical of the 
society, published in London, shows the inter- 
national character of its interests and membership by 
being printed in French and in English in parallel col- 
umns, and gives its objects, which are: “To circulate 
information, and to compare methods of different coun- 
tries and districts. To advise as to training, and make 
known openings for employment, and for disposal of 
produce. To uphold the highest standards of work, 
and to secure an adequate rate of payment for women 
engaged in any of the indicated lines.” The special 
subjects with which the Union and its Leaflet concern 
themselves are : 
(a) Farming, Dairying, Poultry-keeping, and Bee- 
keeping. 
(b) Fruit or Flower growing for profit. 
(c) Laying out of grounds. Forestry and the Man- 
agement of Estates. 
December, 1901, the organization had a member- 
ship of nearly 200 of the women interested in the 
questions it deals with, — the membership including 
residents of England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, the 
United States, Belgium, Denmark, the British West 
Indies, Russia, India, Spain, Tasmania, and Nova 
Scotia. The membership is steadily increasing. Miss 
T. W. Powell, West Mount, Guildford, Surrey, Eng., 
is secretary of the Union. 
The South Park Improvement Association (Chi- 
cago) has taken in hand the systematic improvement 
of the entire district known as South Park, which is 
bounded by the Midway (59th St.), 55th St., and 
Jackson and Washington Parks. The University of 
Chicag'o is situated near the middle of this district. 
The streets are to be taken, one by one, and planted 
uniformly, and vacant lots are to be screened by 
shrubbery plantations. Trees and shrubs used are to 
be limited to varieties that will thrive with little care 
under the existing conditions, and other common- 
sense methods of practical landscape gardening are 
to be artistically applied under the direction of Mr. 
VINES ON PORTE-COCHERE, HOME OF MRS. EMMA HOWARD 
SHAFTER, OAKLAND, CAL. 
James Jensen, formerly superintendent of Humboldt 
Park, but ousted from that position for political rea- 
sons. There seems to be one thing, at least, that poli- 
tics cannot do, and that is to make trees and other 
vegetation change color to suit the shades of various 
political parties. Under some political control they 
refuse to furnish any shade whatever, but fade and 
die. Politics won’t make the trees grow. The poli- 
tician who wants to secure a lasting monument to his 
work for the city and for mankind (no doubt there are 
some of that mind), would better see to it that parks 
and street trees are in the care of a man of taste and 
ability, regardless of political or religious creeds. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
