November, 
19II 
THE DECEMBER NUMBER 
HE reader of AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS will 
find many important articles in the next issue of 
the magazine. This December number will contain a 
beautifully illustrated article on one of America’s loveliest 
gardens, a garden which, though planned and planted by 
one of our foremost landscape architects, is, nevertheless, 
full of suggestion and ideas that might be applied to the 
laying-out and making of even a very small garden by the 
amateur himself. The article will be accompanied by 
ground diagrams, and gives an indication of what AMERI- 
CAN HoMEs AND GARDENS will present this coming year to 
the consideration of its readers. To this number one of 
the foremost authorities on the subject of textiles will con- 
tribute a most entertaining and helpful article on Oriental 
rugs. Much has been written in the past on this subject, 
but nothing before of just this sort, and there has long been 
needed exactly such an article which would clearly define 
for the reader the various sorts of Oriental rugs, their dif- 
ferences, their values, their comparative wearing qualities, 
and other matters that at once will remove the confusion 
that is entertained by the majority of homemakers on the 
subject. Indeed, many persons imagine that genuine Orien- 
tal rugs must necessarily be beyond their purse, in conse- 
quence of which they have passed by the subject. “They will, 
perhaps, be surprised to find that rugs of good pattern, tex- 
ture and durability can be had to fit almost any purse, the 
prices of the various rugs being given in this article. One 
of the most attractive houses in the vicinity of Philadelphia 
will be described by a well-known architectural authority, 
and fully illustrated with reproductions of both exteriors 
and interiors. It is a house so skillfully planned that, despite 
its ample proportions, it still creates an atmosphere of 
home-feeling and inspires one with commendation for this 
sort of domestic architecture, which never can be too gen- 
erally employed. Edward I. Farrington, the poultry ex- 
pert and a writer of accepted authority, will contribute an 
illustrated article on the subject of “Keeping Twenty-five 
Hens.” This and future articles on kindred subjects will 
assure the standard that has been set by AMERICAN HoMEs 
AND GARDENS for its Poultry Department. The same num- 
ber will include another article on “Making Hens Lay in 
Winter,” and a helpful kennel article. If the reader of this 
present issue has found pleasure in the various photographic 
reproductions of “friendly dooryards,”’ which the editor 
hopes will serve as a little primer for stimulating home- 
building efforts in such directions, it is hoped that he will 
also find much of interest in a similar feature that will 
occupy the middle pages of the magazine for December, a 
feature especially appropriate to the holiday season, as will 
be several other articles, including an essay by a New Eng- 
land writer of note on nature subjects. There will be other 
articles dealing with homes and gardens of distinction, and 
the issue will be fully as interesting as the present one. 
“Good Taste in Decoration” will head the department 
established in the present issue called ‘““Within the House,” 
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and the Garden Department will cover a variety of hints 
and suggestions useful to the homebuilder and the garden- 
maker, while some new, original and delicious Christmas 
dishes will be described in the ‘‘Helps to the Housewife” 
Department. The December number will be richly illus- 
trated throughout with a large number of half-tones. 
NADVERTENTLY the names of the architects who re- 
modeled the houses described in the article on the ‘‘Story 
of Two Remodeled Farmhouses,” page 365 of the October 
number of AMERICAN HoMES AND GARDENS, were omitted. 
The houses in question were remodeled by Messrs. Adden 
& Parker, 12 Bosworth Street, Boston, Mass. We are 
glad to rectify the oversight. 
THE PURE FOOD EXHIBITION 
HE Annual Pure Food Exhibition, recently held in New 
York city, brought to the attention of visitors several 
exhibits of unusual importance. One of these, the tenement 
food exhibit of the New York Association for Improving 
the Condition of the Poor, brought forcibly home to one 
the immediate necessity of extended action in bringing about 
a transformation in the conditions of the quality of food 
consumed by the tenement dwellers of our cities. The 
poorer classes have always rested under the mistaken im- 
pression that foods purchased at delicatessen stores were 
much less expensive than foods prepared at home, and there- 
fore trading at these shops was an economy. The A. I. C. 
P. exhibit proves conclusively the opposite to be the case, 
and among the articles shown were various actual food sam- 
ples collected from tenement tables—breakfasts, luncheons 
and suppers such as are the rule and not the exception. One 
wonders that public interest can remain deaf to the appeal 
this visual exhibit of the terrible consequences of such feed- 
ing must bring to our community. It seems one more reason 
for advecating a National Department of Public Sanitation. 
The Department of Agriculture of the United States had 
displayed a collection of contaminated meats, and it is doubt- 
ful if any visitor inspecting this exhibit could come away 
without a feeling of the deepest indignation that producers 
and dealers could descend so low in the moral scale as to 
participate in the criminal act of offering to the consumer 
foods so terrible in nature. At the Pennsylvania booth a 
chair was shown whose parts were welded together with a 
glue extracted from ice cream, and also specimens of catsup 
made of pumpkin pulp instead of tomatoes. 
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AMATEURS 
N response to the invitation of the editor to amateur 
photographers, AMERICAN HoMEs AND GARDENS has re- 
ceived a number of interesting photographs, one or two of 
which are included in the present issue, and others will ap- 
pear in the magazine from time to time. The editor wishes 
to take this opportunity of expressing appreciation for the 
interest: taken in the matter of photographs by amateurs, 
and will be glad to consider other contributions of this sort. 
