[To ram EDITOR or ma "Brzareroa."1
am sure every one who lives near any beauty spot of Nature open to the public will be grateful for your admirable article, " Bury or Burn." I live near a beautiful and ancient park on the outskirts of London, and it makes one Ill sometimes to see the way it is desecrated. Papers and other rubbish are thrown about in the most reckless way. I have often picked up broken glass, fearing an accident to the feet of the numerous children who frequent the place. But they are by no means the chief or only offenders. Men and girls are worse. The ground near where they sit is strewn with old chocolate-boxes, old matches, and, worse still, with torn-up bits of letters, so minute that they defy any efforts to pick them up on the part of the few remaining park-keepers. People do these things because they do not jar on them. They would enjoy the park just as much if the debris were never removed, being accustomed to untidy surroundings at home. It is there, like everything else, that a taste for order must be implanted. Failing that, a good deal could be done, not by abstract teaching at school, but by organizing the clearing up of papers, &c., by children themselves under the guidance of one of those teachers in whose charge one sees them so frequently doing " Nature study " in the parks and woodlands. This would teach the children better than any other way, and would also have the advan- tage of saving labour, which is so difficult to get now in war time.—
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