Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1918 — CURVES FOR BEAUTY [ARTICLE]

CURVES FOR BEAUTY

Well to Follow Mature In Avoidance of the Straight Line When It le Possible. In avoiding straight lines we must not go so far aS to violate what common sense dictates. It is not expected that a path 20 feet long running from the public sidewalk to the front door Is capable of many. or, in fadt, any curves. The shortness of the distance precludes the possibility of these, and straight lines must prevail. On a place of greater extent or where the house Is situated farther from the public highway the need of curves Is Indicated, for if one having no pathway marked out should carelessly walk from the street back to the front door over a freshly raked soil surface looking backward he would discover that he had made a line composed of very faint yet beautiful curves, and this line might properly be utilized for outlining the subsequent path. The one thing to avoid in paths of this kind is abruptness. It will be noted that the course of a river consists of broad, graceful sweeps, and wherever abruptness occurs a short curve may be forced by the water leaving a rocky bank or some other natural Impediment. We should make our "abrupt curves appear equally neccessary by planting a shrub, tree or some other natural impediment. We force them from a line of travel otherwise necessarily straight or nearly so.