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« THE JULY NUMBER 
HE midsummer number of AMERICAN HOMES AND 
GARDENS will be one of the most attractive issues of 
the year, full of excellent material of the deepest interest 
to every homemaker and beautifully illustrated from cover 
to cover. Indeed, the Editor is constantly in receipt of 
letters from the magazines and others complimenting 
AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS on its remarkable illus- 
trations, expressing some wonderment that it is possible to: 
make each succeeding issue as handsome as the one pre- 
ceding. As the magazine not only selects the finest photo- 
graphs available but likewise has its own direct photographic 
staff, it is possible to present to its readers illustrated 
features unsurpassed by any other magazine in the field of 
periodicals devoted to homemaking. 
HE magazine knows what to place before its readers 
because its editorial policy keeps it closely in touch with 
them. In its various departments AMERICAN HOMES AND 
GARDENS seeks not so much to keep its readers informed 
of novelties as it does to present old truths with vital 
emphasis. The articles that appear in these departments 
are essays worth reading, not only by reason of their sub- 
ject matter but also because they are all well written. 
N the department Within the House, the matter of the 
interior of the house, large or small, its decoration, fur- 
nishing, papering, painting, flooring, plumbing, lighting, 
heating, etc., comprises a field in which the articles that 
appear in AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS stand un-. 
rivalled. 
UMMER and Winter there is no abatement 
interest in horticultural matters shown by our readers, 
because month by month AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
prints the best gardening articles that can be procured that 
will be of definite value to the home-builder and home- 
maker. In this connection the regular department, dround 
the Garden, is of especial value to every reader of the mag- 
azine. 
HE ideal of the American home is not the pretentious 
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 approach 
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 small houses and to the 
many matters within her province. In every issue appears 
FHlelps to the Housewife, a department conducted by Eliza- 
beth Atwood, one of the highest authorities on home econo- 
mics. American mothers, and fathers as well, can ill af- 
ford to miss reading her essays on home topics. 
HE July number will have for its opening article a de- 
scription of a delightful Massachusetts country home, 
showing exteriors and interiors. An interesting article on a 
little studied phase of Furniture will appear under the same 
authorship, Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Abbott Mc- 
Clure, followed by Adelia Belle Beard’s article on The 
American Pageant. Several small houses are illustrated 
and described in this issue, accompanied by their plans. The 
in the - 
double-page feature will be one of the handsomest that has 
appeared in the magazine this year. 
HE July issue will give especial emphasis to the sub- 
ject of The Isolated Power Plant in an excellent article 
by Jonathan Rawson, and to Plumbing fixtures in an inter- 
esting and valuable article by Robert Cowie. Other features 
that will appear in this July issue cannot fail to commend 
the magazine to every homemaker in America. 
SCHOOLS OF PRINTING 
UTSIDE of England (under the influence of William 
Morris and those following in his steps) and, later, 
Germany, no other country has given so much interest to 
the study of printing and typography as has America, de- 
spite the fact that foreign runic have, perhaps paid more 
attention to the subject of the appearance of unillustrated 
books than have we in this country. However, the interest 
in printing to which the Editor refers is that which affects 
Americans at large, and a few months ago Mr. John Cot- 
ton Dana, in an address before the Harvard Graduate 
School of Business Administration, called attention to the 
rapid development of schools of printing in the United 
States. In addition to the Harvard School, the Inland 
Printing Technical School in Chicago, Mr. Dana called 
attention to the printing course in connection with the School 
of Journalism at the State University of Washington, the 
printing course at the United States Indian School, Carlisle, 
Pennsylvania, the North End Union School of Printing in 
Boston, the printing course of the New York Trade School 
in New York city, the Columbus Trade School, Columbus, 
Ohio, and the printing course in the Cleveland Elementary 
Industrial School. In addition to these, one might call at- 
tention to the practical courses of instruction at Tuskegee, 
at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute in Mississippi, 
and other institutions. ‘This awakening interest in the printing 
trades industrial education is one which everyone should be 
glad to note, and it should receive the attention of all per- 
sons interested in industrial education, for in this matter of 
printing better facilities should be open to all our youth. 
SUBSCRIBERS’ OWN GARDENS 
MONG tthe subscribers of AMERICAN HoMES AND 
GARDENS are many who are especially interested in 
their gardens. With this in mind AMERICAN -HIOMES AND 
GARDENS offers $10 to the subscriber who sends us the best 
photograph or set of photographs of his or her own gar- 
den, accompanied by an account of its planning, planting, 
care, etc., which description should be between six and eight 
hundred words. All manuscripts and photographs should 
be plainly marked with sender’s name and address and ac- 
companied by postage for return. ‘The articles and photo- 
graphs must be submitted before September 1, 1912. Other 
garden photographs and descriptions of interest will, if 
retained by the Editor, be paid for at the magazine’s regu- 
lar rates. 
The article, ‘“Hints on Using Copper on Outside Building 
Work” appearing in March number of AMERICAN Homes 
AND GARDENS was incorrectly ascribed to A. C. Varian in- 
stead of to Charles K. Farrington, its author. 
