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Title: Health in home and town
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brown, Bertha Millard, b. 1870
Subjects: Sanitation, Household Public health
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) D.C. Heath and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Manycities are developing large parks situated in the outskirtsor suburbs. Boulevards or very wide parklike streets 1 H ^ ..- . -- ?H- „ „«. * ^^r^^i p^~- ^jtill^L i ■ w ^ Boulevard on the Bank of a Stream are popular with those who drive. The parks of a citywhen connected by boulevards are usually spoken of asa park system. City Squares. — When two or more streets meetthey often form an open space, called a square, a tri-angle, or a circle, according to its shape. Sometimesthese spaces are left merely as large open areas with noadornment. Often an ornamental lamp-post rises froman enlarged base or an isle of safety, and lights the entire THE PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS 147 space. Some squares are large enough to be plantedwith grass and shrubbery, and serve as a pleasant out-of-doors resting place in the summer. Fountains andstatuary often adorn these areas. In the city of Wash-ington small squares add much to its attractiveness.In that city there are two hundred and seventy-five
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Copyright by Detroit Publishing Co. In Central Park, New York green spots less than an acre in extent. Thirty-one ofthese are adorned by the statue of a president, a gen-eral, or some other distinguished American. City Parks. — Some cities have large parks locatedwithin the thickly settled area. In Chicago, the beauti-ful Humbolt Park, Garfield Park, Douglas Park, andWashington Park are surrounded by the homes of thou-sands of citizens. The three parks on the lake-front,Lincoln, Grant, and Jackson Parks, are situated farther 148 HEALTH IN HOME AND TOWN from those who most need them. In the heart of New-York City, Central Park, containing over eight hundredacres, is the chief spot of natural beauty. In the citybelow this point twenty-six small parks, ranging in sizefrom one to twenty-one acres, serve as breathing-places.Above Central Park in Manhattan there are seven largeparks. Part of the water-front along the Hudson Riveris preserved in Riverside and Washington Parks, withgrand vi

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