Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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November, 1911 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS VI)
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THE DECEMBER NUMBER THE reader of American Homes and Gardens will find many important articles in the next issue of the magazine. This December number will contain a beautifully illustrated article on one of America's loveliest gardens, a garden which, though planned and planted by one of our foremost landscape architects, is, nevertheless, full of suggestion and ideas that might be applied to the laying-out and making of even a very small garden by the amateur himself. The article will be accompanied by ground diagrams, and gives an indication of what Ameri- can Homes and Gardens will present this coming year to the consideration of its readers. To this number one of the foremost authorities on the subject of textiles will con- tribute a most entertaining and helpful article on Oriental rugs. Much has been written in the past on this subject, but nothing before of just this sort, and there has long been needed exactly such an article which would clearly define for the reader the various sorts of Oriental rugs, their dif- ferences, their values, their comparative wearing qualities, and other matters that at once will remove the confusion that is entertained by the majority of homemakers on the subject. Indeed, many persons imagine that genuine Orien- tal rugs must necessarily be beyond their purse, in conse- quence of which they have passed by the subject. They will, perhaps, be surprised to find that rugs of good pattern, tex- ture and durability can be had to fit almost any purse, the prices of the various rugs being given in this article. One of the most attractive houses in the vicinity of Philadelphia will be described by a well-known architectural authority, and fully illustrated with reproductions of both exteriors and interiors. It is a house so skillfully planned that, despite its ample proportions, it still creates an atmosphere of home-feeling and inspires one with commendation for this sort of domestic architecture, which never can be too gen- erally employed. Edward I. Farrington, the poultry ex- pert and a writer of accepted authority, will contribute an illustrated article on the subject of "Keeping Twenty-five Hens." This and future articles on kindred subjects will assure the standard that has been set by American Homes AND Gardens for its Poultry Department. The same num- ber will include another article on "Making Hens Lay in Winter," and a helpful kennel article. If the reader of this present issue has found pleasure in the various photographic reproductions of "friendly dooryards," which the editor hopes will serve as a little primer for stimulating home- building efforts in such directions, it is hoped that he will also find much of interest in a similar feature that will occupy the middle pages of the magazine for December, a feature especially appropriate to the holiday season, as will be several other articles, including an essay by a New Eng- land writer of note on nature subjects. There will be other articles dealing with homes and gardens of distinction, and the issue will be fully as interesting as the present one. "Good Taste in Decoration" will head the department established in the present issue called "Within the House," and the Garden Department will cover a variety of hints and suggestions useful to the homebuilder and the garden- maker, while some new, original and delicious Christmas dishes will be described in the "Helps to the Housewife" Department. The December number will be richly illus- trated throughout with a large number of half-tones. INADVERTENTLY the names of the architects who re- modeled the houses described in the article on the "Story of Two Remodeled Farmhouses," page 365 of the October number of American Homes and Gardens, were omitted. The houses in question were remodeled by Messrs. Adden & Parker, 12 Bosworth Street, Boston, Mass. We are glad'to rectify the oversight. THE PURE FOOD EXHIBITION THE Annual Pure Food Exhibition, recently held in New York city, brought to the attention of visitors several exhibits of unusual importance. One of these, the tenement food exhibit of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, brought forcibly home to one the immediate necessity of extended action in bringing about a transformation in the conditions of the quality of food consumed by the tenement dwellers of our cities. The poorer classes have always rested under the mistaken im- pression that foods purchased at delicatessen stores were much less expensive than foods prepared at home, and there- fore trading at these shops was an economy. The A. I. C. P. exhibit proves conclusively the opposite to be the case, and among the articles shown were various actual food sam- ples collected from tenement tables—breakfasts, luncheons and suppers such as are the rule and not the exception. One wonders that public interest can remain deaf to the appeal this visual exhibit of the terrible consequences of such feed- ing must bring to our community. It seems one more reason for advocating a National Department of Public Sanitation. The Department of Agriculture of the United States had displayed a collection of contaminated meats, and it is doubt- ful if any visitor inspecting this exhibit could come away without a feeling of the deepest indignation that producers and dealers could descend so low in the moral scale as to participate in the criminal act of offering to the consumer foods so terrible in nature. At the Pennsylvania booth a chair was shown whose parts were welded together with a glue extracted from ice cream, and also specimens of catsup made of pumpkin pulp instead of tomatoes. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AMATEURS IN response to the invitation of the editor to amateur photographers, American Homes and Gardens has re- ceived a number of interesting photographs, one or two of which are included in the present issue, and others will ap- pear in the magazine from time to time. The editor wishes to take this opportunity of expressing appreciation for the interest taken in the matter of photographs by amateurs, and will be glad to consider other contributions of this sort.

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