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PARK AND PLAYGROUND. 811
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condition of admission "being good behaviour . The proprietor retired from business with a large fortune . We believe that it is
intended to abolish the night-houses , but if gentlemen , having capital to invest , and able to make proper arrangements , would establish a
few of these model coffee-shops , they would confer a great benefit on generall working y men found , and that find every the undertaking speculation by a which profitable the least one . educated It is
classes are to benefit , must be devised and carried into execution by those The of evidence a higher iven station in than favor themselves of parks . and gardens , as affording
counteracting influences g to the public-house , refers chiefly to the use made of them on Sundays . "We do not mean to enter here into the
much-vexed Sabbath question ; for we believe that the most earnest establishes or respecter garden of betwe the the Sabbath successful en the woul hours rivalry d not of of worshi object the p to park * ' a The quiet to testimony the stroll gin in -shop a which park on
of Sundays that testim , proves ony it : — also Mr . for Richardson week days , a , land and surveyor here is a at small Manchester fraction ,
that so greatl much the y interested frequented public-houses in as every those in the movement at nei a ghbourhood distance of the . _^ working This of the he parks classes knows are , from say not s
having the Gardens parks had at were the to value charge opened them of . , one and The observing opening admission their of the decreasing between Dublin church value Zoolog hours since ical ,
penny was found to provide a powerful counter-attraction to the publichouse . This is strongly expressed in a letter of thanks sent by the ical
members of the Mechanics' Institute to the Council of the Zoolog Society Sir J , and Paxton published in that the b about efore- fourteen mentioned Parliamentary a numb Report er of . years ago ,
. says , persons dayto , see from the Rve house to ei and ght hundred grounds , would at Chatsworth go from . Sheflield This caused on Sun a -
had great , the deal whole of work lace for closed the servants . The same of the number Duke , who of persons in consequence however p
great came into disturbance the neig . hbourhood The Duke , frequented then adopted the public a modification houses , and caused of his which original the plan supervision , and re- opened of onl the two park men and was all required the outer . grounds Since that , for
y time there had been no difficulty about the public-house nuisance on Sundays If in practical the district argument . is still wanting in favor of airspace
and natural any objects , as opposed to gin-shops and their concomitants , , , it will be found in the writings of physiologists . Dr . Carpenter , we led towns
been believe of iving deprived , says vigour that of some to the the portion atmosp blood here of and its of vitalizing muscles densely element peop than the , is pure less , , capable hi having
ghlyit oxygenated require g an air amount of the country of stimulus , and that in food persons and , constantl drink , of y which breathing the of those of
want is not felt in an unvitiated air . The experience our
Park And Playground. 811
PARK AND PLAYGROUND . 811
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/23/
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