May, 1 9 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XI 



THE VACATION NUMBER 



JUNE is not only the month of roses and commencements, 

 but being the beginning of vacation time outdoor things 

 suggest themselves to everyone. It has been the custom of 

 American Homes and Gardens to devote its June num- 

 bers from year to year to vacation topics, therefore the next 

 issue of the magazine will have as the dominant note of its 

 contributions Outdoor Life and Recreation. Every camper- 

 out will be delighted in an article on "Camp Cookery" which 

 will appear in this issue. An unusually interesting article 

 on Canoeing, written by Mr. F. F. Rockwell, will also ap- 

 pear in the June number. One of the most attractive coun- 

 try 7 homes on the Hudson River will be fully described and 

 illustrated, as also a number of smaller houses, accompanied 

 by their floor plans. Rustic Furniture and "A Windmill 

 Made Into a House" will be among other June features, 

 and the Collectors' Department will be especially strong in 

 this issue. This department will contain an article on the 

 subject of "Liverpool Pitchers," about which little has been 

 written, and also an article on "Early Printed Handker- 

 chiefs," illustrated with specimens from the Drake Collec- 

 tion. One of the most interesting contributions to the maga- 

 zine will be an article on "Silhouettes," written by a widely 

 known authority on the subject. 



THE Collectors' Mart: The attention of readers of 

 American Homes and Gardens is called to the Collec- 

 tors' Department which appears each month in American 

 Homes and Gardens in the reading columns of the adver- 

 tising pages. Collectors are invited to send short descrip- 

 tions of their wants and offerings to the Collectors' Mart. 

 Wants and offerings will be inserted in this column without 

 charge. American Homes and Gardens takes no re- 

 sponsibility in connection with any of the offerings sub- 

 mitted. All communications should be addressed to "Col- 

 lectors' Mart, American Homes and Gardens, 361 

 Broadway, New York, N. Y." All replies should be ac- 

 companied by a blank envelope, stamped and marked with 

 the register initials (which identify the wants and offer- 

 ings) in the lower left hand corner of the envelope, the 

 whole to be enclosed in the envelope addressed to the "Col- 

 lectors' Mart." Photographs should be carefully protected 

 and packed flat. 



FOREIGN TRAVEL FOR AMERICAN TEACHERS 



THE Editor takes pleasure in calling the attention of the 

 readers of American Homes and Gardens to The 

 Kahn Foundation for the Foreign Travel of American 

 Teachers. The essential object of the Foundation is in no 

 sense to further any special line of individual, and above all 

 academic research. It is to enable men of proved intel- 

 lectual attainments to enjoy during one year or more, suffi- 

 cient leisure and freedom from all professional pursuits or 

 pre-occupations, to enter into personal contact with men and 

 countries they might otherwise never have known. It is to 

 enable them to issue from the world of books and their 

 narrow sphere of habitual interests into the broader world 

 of various civilizations and such human interests, struggles 

 and endeavors as go to the making of general civilization. 



From a disinterested survey of different countries, some at- 

 tempt to enter into the spirit of their inner life from the 

 mere contrast, however summarily or imperfectly perceived, 

 of their varying aims and ideals, all living minds must 

 necessarily receive a stimulus, lose prejudices, gain a broader 

 view, a more generous and philosophical outlook on human 

 life and the wider issues of civilization at large. It is in 

 order to increase the number of men who have some per- 

 sonal and direct knowledge of other countries than their 

 own, some understanding appreciation of other civilizations, 

 to give fuller opportunities for such comparisons between 

 them as may gradually lead to a saner, kinder, more ac- 

 curate and just conception of the world and the general 

 movement of civilization, that these Traveling Fellowships 

 have been founded. 



EACH year the Trustees select two or more American 

 teachers, scholars or investigators as the beneficiaries 

 of the trust thereby founded, advance and pay over to each 

 of them out of the principle or income of the trust funds 

 such sum or sums of money in instalments or otherwise as 

 the Trustees may in their discretion determine. This is 

 one of the most interesting "foundations" yet established 

 and its work will be watched with interest. 



WASHINGTON'S "PIED PIPER" CRUSADE 



ACCORDING to various reports in the daily news- 

 papers, prominent women in the city of Washington 

 have organized a crusade against rats in Centre Market, 

 the chief source of the capital's food supply. Officers of 

 the Public Health Service have been called upon for aid 

 in the projected extermination of the rodents. With Mrs. 

 Archibald Hopkins at their head the women of the Nat- 

 ional Civic Association propose to take the matter into 

 court and prosecute all dealers who refuse to co-operate 

 in this work. This movement closely follows a campaign 

 waged in the city of Spokane in rat-infested localities. It 

 is a subject worth careful consideration by Civic "House 

 Cleaning" Associations. 



THE GROVER CLEVELAND MEMORIAL 



MARCH 18 witnessed the dedication, as a prominent 

 memorial to Grover Cleveland, of the little wooden 

 louse where the distinguished statesman was born seventy- 

 six years ago. The Grover Cleveland Birthplace Me- 

 morial Association raised the funds for the preservation 

 of the house, of which $5,000 was contributed by the resi- 

 dents of Caldwell, New Jersey, the birthplace of the late 

 ex-president. The association will need a fund of some 

 $25,000 for the maintenance of the manse, which it is pro- 

 posed to raise by public subscription. Until this result is 

 obtained, thus enabling a guardian to be installed, the 

 premises will continue to be occupied by the present resi- 

 dents. The memorial is a two-story frame structure set 

 back from the road behind two great elms. The associa- 

 tion intends to paint it white with green trimmings and 

 otherwise restore the house to the condition it was in 

 when occupied by the owners. On the adjoining lot a 

 memorial library wll be erected. The sum of $7,500 has 

 already been donated toward the funds for this purpose. 



