. Village improvement . which,however, should not be the cheap and ugly struc-ture so often seen, but should be made to fit inshape and material into the general scheme: andthen great care should be employed that it be soplaced, in a large, open space, that shrubs andother decorations be not injured by the crowdsthat gather about it. But besides the common, and especially ifthere is no common, some other place, accessibleto the village, should be found that can be de-voted to the open-air recreation of the quote the words of Daniel W. Clarke: Right near the village there should be ac
. Village improvement . which,however, should not be the cheap and ugly struc-ture so often seen, but should be made to fit inshape and material into the general scheme: andthen great care should be employed that it be soplaced, in a large, open space, that shrubs andother decorations be not injured by the crowdsthat gather about it. But besides the common, and especially ifthere is no common, some other place, accessibleto the village, should be found that can be de-voted to the open-air recreation of the quote the words of Daniel W. Clarke: Right near the village there should be acquired asmall tract of landscape, possessing woods, meadows,streams, and, if possible, the shore of some pond orlake. This would be an invaluable place to frequentfor picnics, a spot to visit for the enjoyment of ruralscenery without fear of trespass, an area securefrom intrusion with the expansion of village bounda-ries. So it is that villages as well as cities shouldgive heed to the need for public grounds and should. VILLAGE PAEKS 145 make provision for their realisation. Yet their char-acter should be very different from those of the should be no attempt at formal terracing, nointroduction of classic fountains, or of poor monu-ments, and no use of carpet bedding. They shouldbe made useful and attractive in as straightforward amanner as possible. They should be simple, quietand dignified, thoroughly in keeping with the ruralatmosphere of the village.—{Sural Manhood, Octo-ber, 1912). A notable instance of a village providing itselfwitli such, a place of pleasurable out-of-door en-joyment is a town in Vermont, where a localcommercial club has purchased an area of aboutforty acres to be held as a park for the benefitof the townspeople. The summit of a mountainat an altitude of about 2600 feet is within thetract, and a wood-road to it has been put in goodcondition. It is about three miles from the vil-lage to the top of the mountain, but there ascene of rare beaut
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