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Rh And the town built a band stand in the square in front of the town hall so that you might have music on holidays.

It is a beautiful place for a boy or girl to live. And there is ever so much that you and the others can do to help in keeping your town beautiful.

Your home is one of the older ones and faces Main Street, setting rather far back from the street. There is a wooden fence in front of it, and when you stood up on the fence not long ago to watch the soldiers march by, you broke two or three of the pickets. The gate is loose on its hinges, too. There is an alley back of your house through which the tradesmen and the men who collect refuse drive. This alley is littered with tin cans and scattered papers. The trees in the street in front of your house do not seem to be sending out their spring leaves as early as they should, and your front yard is untidy with the

Courtesy, Chicago Commons DOING HER BIT TO KEEP HER TOWN BEAUTUFUL