Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 20, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1922 — Page 27

ADAMS COUNTY AN IDEAL SPOT FOR YEOMAN HOME m miii THE HUB OF THE UNIVERSE OFFERS BEAUTIFUL SITES GREATEST AMONG WHICH ARE THOSE SURROUNDING CITY OF DECATUR.

I DECATUR. CHILDHOOD'S DREAM |i (By Jessie Magley Kane, In I “Hoosier Observer. ) I "Ring it to the world, bell, for me!' I „ l were locating a home for children, Dy place in the United Stated-nay, 'world!—l'd place It right here mdiana. I even go so far as to ..that Id locate it in Adams county; L that's why 1 came back—to locate ' on e babe here. I'd been traveling some—from coast to coast and across tbe ocean and I haven't come up to ,nv place that suits me all around „ we |i as my own Adams county. 1 mß y be a little prejudiced, but I think BO t For you see before I had ever bt .,n away very much, I thought to l iTe m California or Florida or Haflii or some other far place would be ,h. finest thing in the world. But r.e changed my mind. Taken all in ,11, Indiana, which you may call the huh of the universe, is superfine. So i j just can't see why anybody connected with the locating of the Yeoman Home could think otherwise. So, said I, when I lately returned to my native “sod.” For “sod," real, grassy down sod it jn, thick and velvety and fine as the ridiest rug. Adams county’s trees are so green; her .skeis so blue; her Reids so broad, so fertile; her streams h full-running—scarcely ever too full er to dry, her clouds so graceful; ter stars so bright; the silence and ate so peaceful. It seems like God took a little bit of Heaven and called kbdiana! This seems like a purely emotional stpouring. But it isn’t. I really ♦ ♦♦+♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦*♦♦♦ ♦ PREPARED OPTIONS + ***++++♦+ + + + + + * henry b. heller County attorney and local abstractor who assisted in securing and prefaring the options for the proposed sites.

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think the people reflect their country. In hot desert places I have seen people so brown, so dried-wisp like, so careworn looking, that I could but Uiken them to the parched sands; as though the effort to wrest a blade of grain or a hit of metal from the earth were too much for them. The children had the same old and sunken look. Then in the naturally green, fertitle, countries, how different! I cannot help but think that those who live close to nature get the best and most out of life. Imagination Is developed. They need no artificial playthings. Buster-brown teeter totters, the ring-shoot and others pale into insignlficunce before “swinging in the old grape-vine." Mud-pies just naturally lead you into kitchen-ways; morning-glory ladies dressed in gowns and hats of different colored flowers, just fade Into nothing besides the paper cut-out dolls; and woodsy playhouses, with their tang of penny royal and spear-mint and other delicious odors beat anything in the "made” line. * Don’t you remember the poet, Wordsworth’s, Ideal of childhood. He tells in his poem, “Three Years She Grew" —how nature developed the child; 0 Three years she grew In sun and shower; Then Nature said: "She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse: and with me The girl in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel and overseeeing power To kindle or restrain. “She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs; And hers shall be the breathing balm. And hers the «ilence and the calm / l w* HENRY THOMAS Local cigar manufacturer and a member of the advertising committee.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1922

Os mute, Insensate things. "The fleeting clouds their state shall lend To her for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fall to see, Bven in the motions of the storm, 1 Grace that shall mould the manden's form By silent sympathy. "The stars of midnight shall he dear To her; and she shall learn her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward-, round, And beauty horn of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

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"And vital feelings of delight Shall rear her form to stately height, Her virgin bosom swell." * I Wordsworth thought, like the most of us.—or rather the most of us think like Wordsworth—that we grow like that we dwell upon. 1 think the Yeomen could find no better place to locate their “City ot Childhood" than one of the many beautiful sites in Indiana and In this county especially. Among the many sites suggested, surrounded with many acres available to make up the required 1,200, Is Bellmont I’ark, fori tnerly Steel's Park. This may be of-

j sored as a true work of art. It represents the life-work of Willard | Steels, well known citizen and benefactor —one who may bo called De- | catur’s true artist. For years, Mr. j Steee labored through sheer love of ’ developing the beautiful, to make this place a beauty spot. His returns In ! money were small In comparison with the time ami money and labor he be1i stowed in restoring the forest trees, 1 1 In changing the water courses and ’ damming tho supply until It over- • flowed Into a beautiful lake; in laying out or conserving the natural r 1 I driveway and walks; in laying out a . "track for athletic sports and arnuse- • J ments, and fostering the beautiful In

i 1 ! every way. And what Is practical, to note also, the xcellent land quality | for farming thus assuring self-sup-port. The nearness of this and other Hites to the city; the climate, warm and equable in season, extending nearly to the holidays, nnd not usually sub . joct to extreme cold in winter; the healthful water supply; the excellent I schools of the city; the churches with . Iheir far-reaching and uplifting lnflu- . 'cnees; the clubs and lodges with their I power for good; the nearness of the city to the metropolitan centers; the 1 fact that tho city lies In the center ■ of the United States, with three raili roads and a traction line radiating in

all directions, make the location Ideal for a Children's Home and School. Decatur welcomes on Yeoman 1)8>, 1 August 22, the officials and visitors ! of this great order. Regardless of whether the site here Is chosen, she appreciates the honor bestowed upon her in the consideration. »- i +♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ «!• Hemstitching and Pecoting ♦ + Reasonable prices. ♦ + Mrs, Hazel Aeschllman + + 211 Jefferson St. ♦ + (Above laundry) ♦ i + + + ♦♦ + + ♦ + ♦ + *♦♦♦