Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1918 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

IDEAL. GARDEN FOR SCHOOL Louisville Authorities Show What Can ' Ba Done by Systematic Planning and Proper Care. A school in a garden! That is the ideal of many an educator—a place for children which in some slight degree shall give them a chance to see and enjoy natural beauty and to develop their faculties through the exercise of sense perceptions amid beautiful surroundings. It is an -ideal'that too often seems far from realization, yet here and there it may be- found. On a recent trip through southern cjties I ran across one such school which is of Interest not only for what it is but for the way it came into existence. For it is a striking ex* ample of what may be done by one devoted woman, with loyal friends, working for an Immediate and practical end. 77 It Is unfortunate that too many school authorities find the recognized needs of the schools so pressing and so difficult to get that they fall to see the necessity of providing the gardens and grounds that give the schools an effective environment. As In so many other phases of school work the initiative in this has to be taken *by outside individuals or organizations who supplement the efforts of principals and teachers by buying additional land or providing garden facilities for land already acquired. An admirable example of what can be done In this respect is found In the Albert S. Brandels school of Louisville. This Is a city grammar school with ample playground space, along one end of which there runs a lovely garden with small greenhouse, an attractive shelter house and tool shed, and a permanent planting of roses and other flowering shrubs as well as of small fruits and perennial flowers. There are spaces set aside for children’s gardens and for little community tree gardens.— Ellsworth, in House Beautiful, ,