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THANKSGIVING NUMBER 
ic November number of AMERICAN HOMES AND 
GARDENS will present an unusually attractive table 
of contents. The country dweller and the automo- 
bile will be the subject of an article out of the ordinary, one 
of as much interest to those who do not own motor cars, as it 
will surely prove to be to those who do. Greenhouse con- 
struction will be presented by a practical writer and an 
authority on the subject of the small greenhouse for the 
man of moderate means. A finely illustrated article on 
the choice of a dog for the country home will be appropriate 
to the season when country dwellers give especial 
thought to such matters. How a woman artist planned her 
home and built for herself a delightful studio nook in the 
Catskills forms an entertaining article full of helpful sug- 
gestions to those who contemplate co-operating with their 
architects in the evolution of the house plan, or think of 
becoming their own architects. A Thanksgiving dinner and 
the dishes that compose it will be described and illustrated in 
the new ‘‘Helps to the Housewife” department, along with 
other articles of practical and helpful interest. In the No- 
vember issue the architectural articles will be especially 
attractive—a valuable aid to every home builder and home- 
maker. This issue and subsequent issues will be rich in 
illustrations of excellence. 
THE GARDEN 
ITH the November issue the Garden Department 
V4 of AMERICAN HoMES AND GARDENS will be en- 
larged and more emphasis placed upon the value 
of gardening in making the grounds more homelike.  Al- 
though there is little outdoor garden work to be done on 
the home grounds during the winter months the matter of 
indoor gardening is one that will receive attention. There 
will be timely articles on indoor gardening, paragraphic 
matter full of helpful hints to the grower of houseplants 
and in future numbers of the magazine greater attention 
will be given to the subject of landscape gardening for 
everyone. 
KENNEL AND POULTRY DEPARTMENT 
| ae magazine will continue to devote careful atten- 
tion to subjects connected with poultry-raising, the 
kennel, etc., and writers who are authorities on 
these subjects have prepared articles of great value to the 
large number of our readers who are interested in such 
matters. 
ARTICLES OF QUALITY 
T is the aim of the editor of AmertcaN Homes AND 
| GARDENS to make this periodical a magazine of good 
taste in everything pertaining to the home. The merely 
ingenious contrivances that have nothing beyond their in- 
genuity to commend them need hardly to expect to find place 
in the pages of this magazine. Moreover, AMERICAN 
FoMEs AND GARDENS will strive to present articles that 
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have a literary quality, notwithstanding the fact that they 
may be thoroughly practical at the same time. The Editor 
believes that the attention of writers who have style at 
command, as well as subject matter before them, are the 
writers AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS should seek to 
introduce to the public, and a hearty invitation is therefore 
extended to writers who have something to say and those 
who have something to say and can write it in a thoroughly 
pleasing and refreshing way, to co-operate with the Editor 
in advancing this principle. AMERICAN HoMEs AND Gar- 
DENS wishes articles on all subjects pertaining to home- 
making by those whose experience lends authority to their 
contributions. The Editor does not wish articles that are 
merely compilations from time:worn sources. There may 
be nothing new under the sun, but when a thing, new or 
old, is known to a man or woman through experience, that 
man or woman, if gifted with the facility to wield a pen, 
should be able to endow the subject with a new interest, 
that is to say, present it in a forceful way by saying what 
is worth saying on the subject. 
ILLUSTRATING THE MAGAZINE 
chee illustrations in AMERICAN HoMES AND GARDENS 
involve great care in planning and selection, and the 
Editor believes this magazine will come to be unsur- 
passed in the interest of its pictorial features. AMERICAN 
Homes AND GARDENS has its own photographic staff of 
skilled professionals, but by no means will the Editor limit 
its illustration resources to the work of its own photogra- 
phers. The Editor is glad to consider good photographs 
of every sort suitable for inclusion within the field of this 
magazine, and such photographs, whether by amateurs or 
professionals, will be paid for promptly upon acceptance. 
AN INVITATION TO AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS 
A MATEUR photographers are especially invited to 
submit clear prints which they think may prove 
available for publication in this magazine, and the 
Editor will give the same prompt ‘consideration and, 
where desired, frank criticism. Has the homemaker 
who is a reader of AMERICAN HoMES AND GARDENS a 
camera? If so, let him stop to consider the possibility 
of some nook or corner of his home, indoors or out, an 
attractive interior or a bit of garden or lawn, which may 
be worthy a place in the magazine; the Editor believes 
the readers of AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS would 
welcome an interchange of such material as the publica- 
tion of it in the pages of this magazine would make pos- 
sible. All photographs submitted must be clearly labeled 
upon the backs of the prints and accompanied by the 
names and addresses of the senders and by postage suf- 
ficient for return of such prints as are not found av a 
able. Some of the best photographs we have published i: 
the past were taken by amateurs, and it is worth one’s 
while to bear this in mind. 
