February, 19 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



IX 



THE COLLECTORS' DEPARTMENT AND AMERICAN ^pag©< in the March issue will be devoted to his description, 

 HOMES FOR MARCH V ' V which will be called "The Story of My Garden," illustrated 



READERS of this magazine have shown great interest with attractive photographs An interesting eastern house, 

 in the announcement of the new "Collectors' Depart* --the* residence of Mr A K Briggs of Jamestown New 

 which appeared in the January issue. The York, designed by -E.G. W Dietrich w.ll also be shown 



- ARLY AMERICAN SILVER" will be the title of 

 one of the articles in the new "Collectors' Depart- 

 ment.'' This will be beautifully illustrated with reproduc- 

 tions from photographs of silverware by Paul Revere and 

 other early American craftsmen. Another article in the 



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practical and wide-embracing department that "Collectors' Department" will take up the subject of 



ment which appeared in 



Editor has received many letters in evidence of the 

 enthusiasm with which the idea has been received. Sev- 

 eral magazines, it is true, have in times past printed various 

 excellent articles on subjects of interest to collectors, but 

 it has remained for American Homes and Gardens to 

 initiate a 

 will be of interest to collectors in America. 



Lord Brougham once said, "Blessed is he who hath a 

 hobby," but thrice blessed is the man or woman whose 

 hobby is connected with the development of the home. 

 The true collector is one in whom the interest in things 

 of beauty, of historic association or things that record 

 the consummate skill of human craftsmanship is an un- 

 flagging interest. It is not necessary that because one 

 collects old china, old furniture, old laces, miniatures or 

 anything of the sort, that the pursuit leads to the turning 

 of one's home into a museum. Nor does it mean that 

 one must collect extensively to enjoy the pleasures to be 

 found in the pursuit. Knowing about things always makes 

 life more interesting, and knowing something of the his- 

 tory and the romance of old china, old furniture, old 

 silver, old prints, or anything of the sort, makes those 

 things infinitely more precious to us when we come across 

 them unawares, discover them in our attics, or see them 

 in the homes of our friends. Antiques and curios have a 

 fascination peculiarly their own as they are in themselves keenly sensitive to what makes for wise choice between 



'Tobies." Excellent illustrations will also accompany this. 



THE double-page feature for the March number will 

 consist of an arrangement of eight especially attractive 

 photographs of garden nooks, which will suggest what may 

 be done in a small way in home landscape gardening. 



MR. F. F. ROCKWELL, the well-known authority on 

 horticulture, will contribute an excellent practical 

 article, accompanied by planting tables, on the subject of 

 "The All-Summer Vegetable Garden." The usual depart- 

 ments, of "The Collectors' Department," "Within the 

 House," "Around the Garden" and "Helps to the House- 

 wife" will be included in this issue. 



THE SCHOOL ART LEAGUE 



SOME stoic souls hold that taste cannot be taught. For- 

 tunately, however, for the coming generation there are 

 warm hearted and warm blooded teachers who have al- 

 ready given proof that the child brought into contact with 

 fine pictures and with questions of design concerning dress, 

 the home, and the architecture of his town may be made 



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veritable historic records and do more than almost any- 

 thing else to reconstruct for us the picture of progress 

 through the ages. Readers of American Homes and 

 Gardens, whether subscribers or not, are invited to co- 

 operate with the Editor in making the new "Collectors' 

 Department" of value and interest to all. 



patterns bad and good. This wise choosing is taste; for 

 taste is nothing but choice between things better or poorer 

 in design. The schools of our country are all helping 

 more or less, in this wise teaching, and many of the school 

 systems have attracted to their aid ardent friends. In 

 New York city a large and active society, the School Art 



THE March number of American Homes will be the League, is helping in a score of ways to further this ra- 



Annual Spring Gardening Number. This issue will tional scheme of art training. John W. Alexander is presi- 



one of the most attractive yet published. The gen- dent, and a dozen other foremost artists are connected 



eral plan of this number takes into account the interest with its board of management while many others are asso- 



of readers in practical garden articles that suggest garden- dated in its membership with some hundreds of teachers in 



ing within the means of the limited income. 



THE opening article will take into consideration the 

 subject of The Flower Garden. This will contain a 

 planting table of Annuals and Perennials so arranged 

 that it will be of prime value to the garden maker. Amer- 

 ican Homes seeks in its garden illustrations to show the 

 relationship of the garden to the house rather than merely 

 floral pictures. 



THE description of a Cleveland, Ohio, house will con- 

 stitute a one-page feature, and this will be illustrated 

 with photographic reproductions of exteriors and by draw- 

 ings of floor plans. 



American Homes recently offered $10 for the best 

 article submitted by one of its readers on the subject 



the schools. Nearly five thousand children attended the 

 various meetings held by the League during the past year 

 in the Metropolitan Museum and at the great art exhibi- 

 tions held through the Winter. Pictures were hung by the 

 association in many classrooms and medals were given for 

 fine craftsmenship in every one of the two hundred school 

 workshops of the City. To aid and foster talent, the 

 League has established industrial art scholarships; through 

 these, a number of the more gifted pupils of the high 

 schools are being trained in post-graduate courses to be 

 skilled designers. Through many committees the League 

 touches the art work of the City schools at a dozen points; 

 it has become at once a stimulus and an aid to practical art 

 teaching in its five hundred buildings. To Miss Florence N. 



of a garden. The one chosen as having the most merit was Levy, the society's secretary, is due the greatest praise for 

 that of Mr. F. F. Spanglar of Zanesville, Ohio, and three her indefatigable efforts to make this movement practical. 



