June, 1 913 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



VII 



THE JULY NUMBER 



MID-SUMMER will be marked by one of American 

 Homes and Gardens' most attractive issues, a num- 

 ber fraught with deepest interest to every homemaker and 

 a number rich in the many beautiful illustrations that adorn 

 every page. The opening article for this July issue will 

 be a description of the old house of John Howard Payne, 

 author of "Home, Sweet Home," the sweetest song ever 

 written. John Howard Payne was born in New York city 

 June 9, 1792. It has often been said that the man whose 

 song has made millions love their homes as they might 

 never have been able to love them without the song, never 

 himself had a home of his own. However, this not true 

 inasmuch as he did not leave the home, which will be 

 described in the July issue, until the age of thirteen. The old 

 John Howard Payne house has been restored by its present 

 owner and fitted throughout with Colonial furnishings of 

 a most interesting nature. It is truly a collector's house. 



THE four page article on "Water Gardens" will make a 

 strong appeal to those interested in small gardens for 

 small houses, and "A Group of New Jersey Houses" will 

 give the reader a description and illustrations of a number 

 of the most successful small houses to be seen in the country. 



THE Collectors' Department will, as usual, be one of 

 the magazine's strongest features. The July issue will 

 contain an article on "Bohemian Glass" and also an inter- 

 esting article on "Old Lanterns." 



THE usual departments of "Within the House," 

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

 will be augmented by articles on "Garden Benches by the 

 Collectors' Mart and collectors' queries and answers and 

 by many other interesting articles including the double page 

 feature of illustrations of garden steps. 



CHAIR OF TOWN PLANNING FOR LONDON 



A SCHEME was recently put forward, receiving the 

 support of Mr. John Burns, Sir Aston Webb, Sir 

 Philip Magnus, Sir William Collins, and Sir Henry Miers, 

 for the establishment of a Chair of Town Planning at the 

 University of London. It is interesting to note that the 

 idea of a professorship originated with Mr. John Burns, 

 who made the suggestion at the opening of the Town Plan- 

 ning Exhibition, held at Crosby Hall some time ago. Since 

 then, Mr. Herbert Warren, of the Garden Cities and Town 

 Planning Association, has been actively engaged in forming 

 a committee consisting of people representing the different 

 aspects of the question. The Association of Garden Cities, 

 in furtherance of Mr. Burns's suggestion, decided to hold an 

 experimental Summer school — on university extension lines 

 — of town planning at the Hampstead Garden Suburb dur- 

 ing the first fortnight of August. At that school profes- 

 sional men attended short courses of lectures and also 

 practical demonstrations on how town planning should be 

 carried out by some of the most eminent of English and 

 foreign town planners. The English plan should prove 

 suggestive to American civic workers. 



SCHOOLS OF APPLIED DESIGN 



AMONG the many educational movements that of 

 schools of applied design for women merits attention 

 and appreciation. As an instance of work that is being done 

 in America along this line one may cite the New York 

 School of Applied Design for Women, which was founded 

 some twelve years ago for the purpose of affording to 

 women practical instructions in the numerous arts and crafts. 

 Over eight thousand women have been fitted in this school, 

 since its organization, to occupy positions of importance in 

 connection with architecture and the allied arts. 



It is also part of the plans of schools of this sort to 

 facilitate the sale of work in design executed by students 

 during the various terms, the entire proceeds of which are 

 applied to the individual student whose work is sold. In 

 this way many of the students of the schools of applied 

 design are enabled to meet their school expense through the 

 product of their developed work. The practical advantages 

 of an educational institution of this sort are manifold and 

 worthy of being put into effect elsewhere. 



THE POCAHONTAS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION 



THE Pocahontas Memorial Association, which was 

 organized and incorporated for the specific purpose of 

 erecting a monument to the memory of Pocahontas, has 

 been engaged in the work of raising a sum of $10,000 to 

 pay for a suitable monument to be erected to her memory at 

 Jamestown, Virginia. The pedestal has already been placed 

 on the site selected, and the statue, in bronze, of heroic size, 

 representing Pocahontas at the moment of delivering her 

 warning to the Colonists, has been completed by William 

 Ordway Partridge, the celebrated sculptor. 



A bill was introduced in Congress at its last session, ask- 

 ing for an appropriation towards defraying the expense of 

 this monument, but Congress failed to pass the bill, and the 

 Association in consequence is soliciting funds from patriotic 

 individuals. 



Anyone interested in the project may address the vice- 

 regent of the Pocahontas Memorial Association, Mrs. 

 George Wilson Smith, 149 Madison Avenue, New York 

 City. 



THE LOGAN ELM 



A MOVEMENT has been started in Circleville, Ohio, 

 and a neighboring city for the preservation of the 

 "Logan Elm," made famous by the speech of Logan, the 

 Indian chief, in 1774. The address is reproduced in many 

 of the school readers. The plan is to purchase about five 

 acres of ground, on which the elm is situated, and place it 

 in charge of the Ohio Archaeological Society. The tree is 

 situated south of Circleville and spreads over 150 feet. The 

 trunk is 20 feet around. The Logan speech was delivered 

 when the Indian chief refused to accede to the treaty of 

 peace which the vanquished red men entered into with Lord 

 Donmor and his three thousand troops. The owners of the 

 land are willing to co-operate with the public in the move- 

 ment to preserve the tree. 



