AMERICAN 



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CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1908 



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Where Peace and Sunshine Reign 416 



Monthly Comment 418 



Notable American Homes — A Twelve-hundred Acre Estate at Greenwich, Connecticut, the 



Home of E. C. Converse, Esq By Barr Ferree 419 



A Minnesota Flower Garden By Henrietta P. Keith 427 



A House at Wynnewood, Pennsylvania By Charles Chauncy 430 



The Farming Experiment of a Woman By Annette Bradshaw 432 



"Tanrackin" — The Country Seat of Thomas E. Kirby, Esq., Mount Kisco, New York. 



By Ralph de Martin 437 



Making Rugs from the Scrap Bag By Mabel Tuke Priestman 442 



Water Parks By Charles Downing Lay 444 



The Summer Home of B. B. Crowninshield, Esq., Marblehead, Massachusetts. 



By Francis Durando Nichols 447 



Old-time Lights By Mary H. Northend 450 



Correspondence : 



Problems in Home Furnishing By Alice M. Kellogg 454 



Garden Work About the Home By Charles Downing Lay 454 



Bulbs for Winter Blooming New Books Getting Ready for Winter 



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