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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1918 



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OVER THERE has become as close to most of us as Over Here. In a very 

 true sense France, where so many of our boys are, is our other home. 

 And so it will continue to be throughout the war. Country Life, there- 

 fore, as it follows and tries to serve its great family, so many of whom are on 

 the fighting line, will be in and of and with the war more completely than ever be- 

 fore. Until the war is won, the legend on our banner will be "Country Life in the 

 War." This is merely an outward and visible recognition of the fact that our life 

 and times are changed beyond all that the most imaginative of us have dreamed. 

 "Country Life in the War" will undertake to give the moving panorama 

 of the great struggle, its color, its feeling, its human drama — not the campaigns, 

 nor the strategy, nor the casualty lists, as other publications are doing all that 

 admirably and adequately. But there are big and vital things that are in the 

 war and parts of its background that we shall claim for our own. 



For example, the personal valor and 

 intrepid spirit of our men are winning the 

 highest decorations and honors on the 

 battlefields. We shall show the pictures 

 of these heroes together with their decora- 

 tions — many of them in full color — month 

 after month in a special section to be called 

 "Won on the Field of Honor." 



America has gone out to sea. 

 Country Life will give the absorb- 

 ing story of the men who are building 

 the battleships and merchant ships 

 by the hundreds — and the pictures 

 in full color and monochrome will 

 be of the kind that one cuts out and 

 preserves for our children's children. 



America has gone into the sky. Country 

 Life will undertake to impart some of the thrill 

 and feeling of the great aircraft story — the 

 story of the man's-size job of making them and 

 of the boys who fly them — the cavalry of the four 

 winds. And here again the pictures will be such 

 interpretative records that they will be kept as 

 mementoes of a great age. 



America has gone into the forests. To-day the 

 nation's trees are a priceless possession. They 

 cover thousands of square miles, almost a conti- 

 nent in size. From them come timber for air 

 ships and sea ships. In them graze twelve million 

 head of cattle, an increase of ten-fold in ten 

 years. Again the Country Life pictures 

 will be worthy of a great patriotic and 

 descriptive issue. 



America has put her hand to the plow 

 and brought forth a mighty harvest to 

 feed the world. In a word we have gone 



far beyond the country life of yesterday 

 with our little joys and inconsequential 

 putterings, and have come into a day of 

 epic achievements. We can no longer think 

 our former thoughts, of gardens, of polo, of 

 orchid collecting, of bird songs, thoughts 

 of the quiet peace of countryside. Instead we have 

 stepped out into the world, to help win the battle 

 for freedom and democracy. It is 

 this great picture of human activity 

 and accomplishment that the mag- 

 azine would present. 



And so it will go — the enormous 

 tasks of the Navy, the spirit of the 

 marines, the tank corps, the life of 

 the fighting men — all phases and branches of the 

 war, outside of strategy and news — they will all 

 find a place on the large and graphic pages of 

 "Country Life in the War." 



We shall go forward with this important and 

 interesting undertaking at once. In October we 

 shall tell the wonderful story of how England has 

 enlisted her country homes for the war, and try 

 to convey to you something of the inspiration 

 of her glorious countryside. In November the 

 issue will be largely devoted to "France, Where 

 Our Boys Are" — how they were moved by the 

 hundreds of thousands across the sea, how they 

 spend their working hours over there, how and when 

 they play, how they are brought back to health 

 and vigor when wounded. Our hearts are 

 there with them; perhaps this magazine 

 can transport our mind's eye there as well. 

 Trial subscriptions accepted at the special 

 price of 3 months for $1.00. Address Coun- 

 try Life, Garden City, New York. 



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