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THE MAY SMALL HOUSE NUMBER 
HE advent of the Annual Small House Number of 
AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS last year is now fol- 
lowed by the second appearance of an issue especially de- 
voted to the small house. The present May number pre- 
sents various features of importance to everyone. The 
Small House is a subject that is close to the heart of every 
American homemaker. This is the month that finds one 
thinking about small houses particularly, and that is why 
AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS annually makes its May 
issue a special number. The magazine’s many readers will 
find that twelve full pages of text matter have been added to 
the present number to take care of the extra small house 
matter prepared for them, and they will find herein many 
small house exteriors and interiors described and illustrated 
and accompanied by floor plans of various stories. The en- 
thusiastic letters that AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
continues to receive from its readers, subscribers and adver- 
tisers is a source of gratification and the Editor deeply ap- 
preciates the helpful interest which the magazine’s many 
friends continue to hold in the articles that appear from 
month to month in these pages. The Editor is always glad 
to hear from its constantly increasing circle of subscribers, 
for AMERICAN HoMES AND GARDENS knows what its 
readers will like because the editorial policy of the magazine 
keeps it closely in touch with them. ‘Therefore comment 
and suggestion is always welcome, bringing with it, as often 
it does, the encouragement and the helpfulness of sugges- 
tion. 
JUNE NUMBER OF AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
HE pages of the June number of AMERICAN HoMEs 
AND GARDENS will contain a number of articles filled 
with the spirit of vacation time. Mary H. Northend’s ar- 
ticles on ‘Boys’ Camps” will be well worth reading. Sum- 
mer camps for boys represent a feature of the culture of 
modern youth that is equally important, in proportion, to 
other phases of educational development. Another out- 
door article is that which will describe ““A Camp Experi- 
ment,” the story of the building of a camp, illustrated from 
beautiful photographs and floor plans. ‘‘Running a House- 
boat by Automobile Power”’ is the title of an entertaining 
article by Robert H. Moulton, and F. F. Rockwell, the 
well-known gardening authority, contributes an adequately 
illustrated article on summer work in the vegetable garden. 
This number of AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS will de- 
scribe interesting houses, each one illustrated from ex- 
terior and interior photographs and by plans. There will 
be other features of great value to the homemaker, such 
as an article on “The Portable House,” ‘‘Planting Around 
Rocks,” “Moles and Lawns,” and the exquisitely illustrated 
“Garden Arches” feature. The matter of the interior of 
the house, large or small, its decoration, furnishing, paper- 
ing, painting, flooring, piacabie. lighting, heating, etc., 
comprises a field in which the articles that appear in 
AMERICAN HoMEsS AND GARDENS stand unsurpassed. Sum- 
mer and Winter there is no abatement in the interest shown 
in its articles by the readers of this magazine, because month 
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by month it prints the best gardening articles that will be of 
definite value to the home-builder and home-maker that can 
be procured. The ideal of the American home is not the pre- 
tentious estate that is merely a show-place requiring an army 
of servants for its upkeep. Instead, the home and the gar- 
den of the man of moderate means more nearly approaches 
the true conception of the American ideal. ‘Therefore 
AMERICAN Homes AND GARDENS is eagerly read by the 
housewife as well as by other members of the family by 
reason of the attention it gives to the many matters within 
her province. This June number will be one of the most 
attractive numbers that have appeared among the issues of 
the magazine. 
INTERNATIONALISM: A NEW TREND 
HE world seems to be upon the dawn of a future era 
of internationalism, of a time when, without sacrifice 
to the intensest national pride, or to true loyalty to one’s 
own country, the peoples of the world will come to inter- 
mingle in thought, language and effort to a degree that has 
not as yet been attained throughout the ages. It is not alone 
the interest shown by one nation in another’s arts, sciences, 
literature, politics or achievements that will bring about the 
greater universal brotherhood, nor will it be by political or 
revolutionary means. We shall, instead, arrive at closer 
relationship to our neighbor-nations (just as we, perhaps, 
arrive at a closer relationship to our neighbor-villager, our 
neighbor-townsman or our neighbor-citizen) by the develop- 
ment of a truer kindliness, a more real charity, a wider 
generosity, and a less selfish appreciation in all affairs be- 
tween ourselves and others, whether or not we be individ- 
uals or populations. In this connection it is interesting to 
note that a number of earnest men, (led by an American, 
Theodore Stanton, a son of the late Elizabeth Cady Stan- 
ton), have planned to issue an international newspaper, a 
newspaper which shall contain only news of world-wide im- 
portance, and other matter within the field of the propa- 
ganda for internationalism. Of course by internationalism 
one does not mean the upsetting of the world’s political di- 
visions, its various modes of government, or anything of the 
sort, but by the term one is to understand that there is meant 
the kinship of the whole world and the understanding of the 
relationship of the people of one nation, their arts, sciences 
and industries as well, to those of another. This project will 
be watched with interest inasmuch as it would seem to be 
one means of assisting as well the movement towards 
International peace. We of this country should seek 
to do away with the sort of provincialism that fools 
itself in believing itself to be the true national spirit. 
The whole world is ever a school to the whole world. An 
attitude towards informing ourselves more generally on 
subjects not bounded by our localism is one which we can 
well afford, in common with the people of every land, to 
develop within ourselves. It is likewise with the matter of 
homemaking. ‘There is much of value we can learn from 
other countries in the way of architecture, gardening, econo- 
mics, and so on, which, if adopted by us or adapted 
to our own needs would greatly advance our progress. 
