September, 19 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS FOR OCTOBER 



FALL Planting and Fall Building will be the topics to 

 which the articles in the October issue of American 

 Homes and Gardens will give emphasis. Mr. F. F. Rock- 

 well will contribute a long and comprehensive article on 

 "Fall Planting in the Flower Garden," and Norman H. 

 Loring one on "Planting the Bulb Garden." "Building a 

 House in the Fall" will be the subject of an excellent article 

 full of interest and suggestion and a special double-page 

 feature will display various types of houses that may be 

 started in the Fall. George Crane will discuss "Reviving 

 the House for Autumn and Winter," and one of the most 

 attractive country houses in America, the home of Mr. 

 Thomas H. Kerr near White Plains, New York, will be 

 described by Mr. Henry H. Matthews. This article will be 

 accompanied by many beautiful illustrations (as will all 

 other articles in this issue), and will also show a carefully 

 worked out plan of the house in relation to its site, a plan 

 which discloses a particularly well devised garage and ser- 

 vice. An attractive and home-like house at Glen Ridge, 

 New York, the home of Mr. F. J. Ogden, will be illustrated 

 in the October number, and plans of the first and second 

 floors will be shown together with interior views. The 

 Collectors' Department will contain several articles of un- 

 usual interest and the whole number will be one of the most 

 attractive of the year. 



AMERICAS FIRST SAFETY EXPOSITION 



THE First International Exposition of Safety and Sani- 

 tation ever held in America will take place in New York 

 city, December nth to 20th, 19 13, under the auspices of 

 The American Museum of Safety. Safety and health in 

 every branch of American industrial life, manufacturing, 

 trade, transportation on land and sea, business, engineering, 

 in all of their sub-divisions will be represented at this expo- 

 sition. It will be the first step toward making a representa- 

 tive exhibition of the progress of safety and preventive 

 methods in America. In the United States every year, 

 40,000 workers are killed, and 2,000,000 are injured, while 

 3,000,000 are ill from preventable causes. 



THE BUSINESS MAN OF TO-DAY 



A BROOKLYN divine of sound knowledge and learning 

 recently preached a sermon which contained a pen- 

 picture of the business man of to-day worth quoting: "The 

 modern business man is governed by circumstances over 

 which he seems to have no control. It is a peculiarity of 

 our age as compared with the life of our predecessors. Life 

 has become so complex that the ordinary business man has 

 lost his personal control over circumstances and has aband- 

 oned himself to their domination. He eats his breakfast 

 with an irritating sense of hurry. He catches a car and 

 gives himself to the vast detail of the morning newspaper. 

 He sits down to his mail to throw his mind into all sorts 

 of matter thrust upon him from without. He goes through 

 the routine of his day's work submitting because he must. 

 He returns home at night tired and half disgusted and in 

 the evening has brain enough left for only some trivial show 

 or game. When Sunday comes he is too worn out to go 



to church and kills time in the morning, and in the afternoon 

 takes a whirl in his automobile and goes to rest early in 

 order to begin a new day with the same kind of grind. He 

 doesn't want to lead a futile life like this; no, he leads it 

 because :he lacks method and mastery. 'Clean-up' day in 

 our cities brings to light an accumulation of rubbish that 

 exceeds all expectation. If business men would inspect their 

 habits and practices they would likewise find rubbish heaps 

 that they might throw away. The merchant who neglects 

 his business and goes fishing is not choosing a crime, but 

 only the lesser good of two things. A man ought to have a 

 controlling standard and motive and that ought to be to 

 follow the will of God. This will give right direction and 

 dominance to his life." 



THE DEARTH IN CADDIES 



THE Editor's notice has just been called to a news re- 

 port which states that one of the most prominent coun- 

 try clubs in America has been driven to distraction by its in- 

 ability to engage and hold capable caddies for its golf 

 course, in consequence of which it has called upon the local 

 Commissioner of the Boy Scouts to supply the club a squad 

 of "scouts" between the ages of fourteen and sixteen to act 

 as caddies, promising to educate the hoped for recruits dur- 

 ing the Winter months and promising continuous employ- 

 ment the year through. The Editor hopes the Commissioner 

 returned to the club committee the answer due to its pro- 

 posal. The Commissioner indeed might well consider him- 

 self a master in the matter of self-restraint if his reply was 

 confined to the realm of strict politeness. That any such 

 offer could have been suggested directly to the Boy Scouts 

 Organization would indicate that the club in question re- 

 mained in complete ignorance of the Boy Scout movement, 

 and possesses a deep and dark lack of any proper interpre- 

 tation of "Ich Dien" as exemplified in the spirit of Young 

 America. Being a caddie is always influenced by a point of 

 view, but becoming a caddie is not the honor to which the 

 average Boy Scout aspires even plus the allurement of a 

 Winter's education. The Editor wonders if a dearth in 

 housemaids would call forth an appeal from the commun- 

 ity in which the club is situated directed to the King's Daugh- 

 ters, or, should the club's waiters go upon a strike, if the 

 club would invite the Sons of the Revolution to accept the 

 vacated dignities. 



CHILD LABOR IN GEORGIA 



A FEW weeks since the National Child Labor Committee 

 published an appeal for funds to be used in the cam- 

 paign to secure from the Georgia Legislature a law prohibit- 

 ing the employment in the State's mills of children under 14 

 years of age and limiting a minor's working day to ten 

 hours. The Georgia mill-owners express indignation that 

 the committee should thus ignore their "generosity" in pro- 

 viding for the young "hands" better surroundings than those 

 of the isolated cabins whence most of their child laborers 

 have sprung, but so far they have not explained why this 

 "generosity" is accompanied by the prisoning of boys and 

 girls more than ten hours a day. Georgia ought to get 

 along without mistaking the factory for the cradle. 



