Health in home and town . lley-lines, one of which extendsinto the park and carries thousands of pleasure addition there are seventy-four smaller parks locatedthroughout the city in nearly every ward. The Boston Parks. — It is said that the best parksystem in the world is that of Boston and its is both large in area and so located as to be withineasy reach. The city squares and playgrounds arescattered throughout the thickly settled districts. Thecity parks and boulevards make a nearly completecircle from the Common in the heart of the city, throughFranklin Park in Roxbur
Health in home and town . lley-lines, one of which extendsinto the park and carries thousands of pleasure addition there are seventy-four smaller parks locatedthroughout the city in nearly every ward. The Boston Parks. — It is said that the best parksystem in the world is that of Boston and its is both large in area and so located as to be withineasy reach. The city squares and playgrounds arescattered throughout the thickly settled districts. Thecity parks and boulevards make a nearly completecircle from the Common in the heart of the city, throughFranklin Park in Roxbury, to the Marine Park in SouthBoston. The Common is interesting as being the THE PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS 149 oldest public park in the heart of an American Common dates from 1634, four years after thesettlement of the town. It was laid out as a place fora trayning field and for the feeding of cattell. Itsforty-eight acres include rolling green fields separatedby wide paths which are bordered by fine old The Boston Public Garden Large Parks. — Some of the largest municipal parksin America are located on the borders of cities or evenbeyond their limits. Such parks are not as useful asthose within the heart of a city. Los Angeles and Kan-sas City have large parks near the city limits. Balti-more has four large parks situated at the four cornersof the city. One of these, Druid Hill Park, is amongthe most famous in the country. The care of it as a IS© HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN private park for one hundred years has produced mostbeautiful lawns and trees. In St. Louis, Forest Park,the Worlds Fair Ground, is the largest park, and will be preserved in its nat-ural beauty. The Park System ofChicago. — The parksystem of Chicago isone of the most com-plete and extensive inthis country. It con-sists of seven largeparks, five smaller parks,and forty miles of bou-levard connecting theparks and forming near-ly a complete different ways inwhich the several par
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