Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . reward enough to see even one ugly, desolate, God-forsaken schoolblossom out into something of grace? To see even one tight-fisted,narrow-minded community grow, willing to give its children picturesatKl shade trees? Well, youll do more than that. Youll see your worstscliuols come up to the line as years go on, and your best ones forgeahead as models of taste and beauty. Youll see filth and indecencybe(^oming rarer, and better ideas of architecture and landscape garden-ing growin
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . reward enough to see even one ugly, desolate, God-forsaken schoolblossom out into something of grace? To see even one tight-fisted,narrow-minded community grow, willing to give its children picturesatKl shade trees? Well, youll do more than that. Youll see your worstscliuols come up to the line as years go on, and your best ones forgeahead as models of taste and beauty. Youll see filth and indecencybe(^oming rarer, and better ideas of architecture and landscape garden-ing growing up among the people. And youll know more the world will be a little better for your efforts. 83 A BEAUTIFUL SCHOOL. The house shown in the picture is located at Sierra Madre, in LosAugeles County. It is a one-story five-room house, situated on theslope of a hill overlooking the San Gabriel Valley and with the SietraMadre Mountains looking in at its north windows. The five rooms are each 27 by 32 feet, inside dimensions, and forman E. with the fifth room in the middle. Tlie five rooms open on to a. court, with a cement floor and a fountain in the center and a beamedstructure overhead. The beams are being covered with growing vinesand in a short time the school will pass through a court fairly wellshaded by the vines. Each of the five rooms has a separateness andindependence that is delightful, and yet each dismisses its children intoone general assembly, thus making the yard supervision problem aneasy one. The windows are shaded by Venetian blinds. This house is consideredone of the model sehoolhouses of Los Angeles County. 84 — THE BEST SCHOOL IN MARIN COUNTY. Superintendent Jas. B. Davidson sends a picture and floor plan ofthe Tamalpais Park School, with the following remarks: It is a good, substantial building of eight rooms. Only four of the
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