April, 1 9 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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THE ANNUAL SMALL HOUSE NUMBER 



EVERY year American Homes and Gardens issues in 

 May its Annual Small House Number, increasing the 

 number of its pages in such issues. The next number there- 

 fore will be devoted to many unusually attractive articles 

 on the subject of small houses. This number, forming as 

 it does a special feature of the year's program for this 

 periodical, will also give special attention to the small 

 garden. The opening article will be adequately illustrated 

 with many half-tones from photographs of actual houses 

 accompanied by diagrams of the various floor plans. The 

 readers of American Homes and Gardens will find that 

 the policy of the magazine in showing actual houses in 

 place of the architects' drawings alone, furnishes the reader 

 with material of far greater interest than could pos- 

 sibly be derived from reproductions of mere wash draw- 

 ings. Various types of small houses will be pictured and a 

 special article will be devoted to the subject of stucco as a 

 building material for the small house. Mr. F. F. Rockwell 

 will contribute an article on "Gardens for the Small 

 House," and the proper site to select for the small house 

 will be the theme of a contribution by Mr. Harold Donald- 

 son Eberlein. Miss Ida J. Burgess will contribute an 

 article on selecting window curtains for the small house. 

 This is a subject that has seldom been treated in so inter- 

 esting and practicable a manner. The article will be well 

 illustrated with reproductions of photographs of actual 

 fabrics and by illustrations of interiors showing attractive 

 curtain arrangements. A small house of stone at James- 

 town, X. Y., will be described and illustrated by exterior 

 views and plans, and also several other attractive houses 

 will be featured. The subject of "Window Boxes" will 

 form one of the most beautiful features in the May num- 

 ber and the "Collectors' Department" will continue to 

 supply readers with much entertaining and valuable material 

 on subjects connected with antiques and curios. For the 

 May number there will be an article on "Old English Map 

 Samplers," one on "Old Lustre-Ware" and the second of a 

 series of articles on "Old Chairs," an article that will be de- 

 voted to the subject of chairs of Heppelwhite, Chippendale 

 and Sheraton. The departments "Within the House," 

 "Around the Garden" and "Helps to the Housewife" will 

 be continued in the May issue as usual, and the readers of 

 American Homes and Gardens cannot fail to feel that 

 with the constructive policy maintained by this magazine 

 every issue will remain one of true value to the home-maker. 



PARCEL POST C. O. D. SERVICE 



AN order of the Postmaster General amending the 

 parcel-post regulations of the United States makes 

 possible the collection on delivery of payment for goods 

 sent by parcel-post. The provisions of the new order will 

 go into effect July 1, 1913. The sender of a mailable parcel 

 on which the postage is full prepaid may have the price of 

 the article and the charges thereon collected from the ad- 

 dressee on payment of a fee of 10 cents in parcel-post 

 stamps affixed, provided the amount to be collected does not 

 exceed $100. Such a parcel will be insured against loss, 



without additional charge, in an amount equivalent to its 

 actual value, but not to exceed $50. The sender of a collect 

 on delivery parcel will be given a receipt showing the office 

 and date of mailing, the number of the parcel, and the 

 amount due him. C. O. D. parcels will be accepted for mail- 

 ing only at a money-order office and when addressed to a 

 money-order office. The C. O. D. tag must show the 

 amount due the sender, the money-order fee necessary to 

 make the remittance, and the total amount to be collected. 

 It should be securely attached to the parcel, which should 

 be numbered to correspond with the tag, stamped C. O. D., 

 and the charges to be collected plainly written thereon. The 

 parcel will be treated as ordinary mail until it reaches the 

 office of address where, on payment of all charges, it will 

 be delivered to the addressee or, unless otherwise directed 

 by the addressee, to the person, firm, or corporation in 

 whose care it is addressed, or to any responsible person to 

 whom the addressees ordinary mail is customarily delivered. 

 A receipt for the parcel must be obtained on the tag at- 

 tached thereto. No return receipt will be furnished the 

 sender, as the money-order serves that purpose. The 

 addressee will not be permitted to examine the contents of 

 a C. O. D. parcel until it has been receipted for and all 

 charges paid. A parcel may be refused when it is tendered 

 for delivery, but after delivery has been effected it cannot 

 be returned on account of dissatisfaction with the contents 

 or the amount collected. 



THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW 

 ENGLAND ANTIQUITIES 



THE organization of The Society for the Preservation 

 of New England Antiquities marks an important de- 

 parture from the usual form of antiquarian societies. Its 

 object is fully indicated by its name. The most important 

 antiquities to be preserved are houses built in the seven- 

 teenth and eighteenth centuries and in the first years of the 

 nineteenth. The income of the Society, including member- 

 ship dues and income from Life Membership Fund, will be 

 used to obtain possession of the best of them. Each house 

 purchased will be restored, if need be, and whenever feasible 

 let to tenants under proper restrictions for the purpose of 

 obtaining its best care and preservation. Some houses of 

 surpassing interest which may be owned by the Society will 

 probably always be open to the public, and maintained 

 solely as memorials. Eventually it will be the Society's plan 

 to preserve smaller antiquities in a museum, sectional and 

 national in character, conveniently placed in a fireproof 

 building in Boston. Already the Society has accomplished 

 good work and its future progress will be watched with interest. 



An article in American Homes and Gardens for 

 March, page 89, "A House in Jamestown, N. Y.," inad- 

 vertedly referred to the architect, Mr. E. G. W. Dietrich of 

 New York as builder. Mr. Dietrich was not the builder 

 but the architect. In this same issue the article on page 80, 

 "A Country Home at Montclair, New Jersey," should have 

 given credit to Henry W. Wilkinson, New York, as archi- 

 tect of this house, the country home of Mr. Edmund B. 

 Osborne. 



