December, 1911 
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THE JANUARY AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
HE New Year’s issue of this magazine will inaugurate 
its ninth volume, and will be as finely illustrated as any 
issue which has preceded it. This issue will include an 
article on a Colonial house of distinction, illustrated by plans 
and reproductions of photography, and Miss Esther Single- 
ton’s article, previously announced, on the subject of “Fur- 
nishing a House for $1,000,” together with photographs of 
the house and its furnishings. The subject of choosing the 
house hardware—metal fixtures—will be discussed by one of 
our foremost architects, and an authority on lighting fixtures 
will contribute an illustrated description of the best things in 
this line. Some new ideas in wall-papers will be illustrated 
and described by another writer. Mr. Harold V. Bowen 
will write upon antiques as house furnishings, and there will 
be a double-page illustrated feature of unusual interest and 
value in this number, which will include in its garden arti- 
cles one on Evergreens for indoors, which will treat of a 
subject about which almost nothing has been written be- 
fore, although Evergreens for indoor culture form one 
of the most important divisions of plant life adapted to 
indoor gardening. Mr. Robert M. Gow, Secretary of 
the American Jersey Cattle Club, will contribute an ade- 
quately illustrated article on the subject of “The Family 
Cow.” The Editor believes this is the first time a practical 
article of just this sort will have been presented to readers 
interested in the problem of the home milk supply. In 
addition to the departments—Around the Garden, Within 
the House, and Helps to the Housewife (which last con- 
tains a discussion of one of the most interesting home 
matters, by Elizabeth Atwood)—the January issue of the 
magazine will present many features fully worth attention. 
This number will give especial attention to the whole field 
of the subject of house furnishings. 
HELPING MR. SANTA CLAUS 
HERE is always one consolation when the rush of 
the holiday season is on, and the ninety-ninth moment finds 
the distracted Christmas shopper wondering what on earth 
to give husband, wife, mother, father, sister, brother, or 
friend for Christmas—that consolation is the fact that a 
year’s subscription to AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
ought to be a solution for any quandary of the sort where 
the recipient of the gift-to-be holds any interest in home- 
making. A word to the wise being sufficient, it is probable 
that AMERICAN Homes AND GARDENS will come to find 
its way into as many Christmas stockings this year as it 
did last, and that will mean a pretty large increase in the 
number of readers that form its circle. 
A COMPLIMENT 
NE of the citizens of Cooperstown, N. Y., has writ- 
ten the Editor an interesting letter containing the in- 
formation that the committee of the Village Improvement 
Society of Cooperstown offered a prize for the ten best- 
kept lawns and premises for the summer of 1911. This 
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competition has just been brought to a close and the prizes 
awarded were yearly subscriptions to AMERICAN HOoMEs 
AND GARDENS. As this selection of prizes was entirely 
without suggestion upon the part of the magazine, the 
Editor cannot but feel that it is another mark of approval 
of the work which is being undertaken by this magazine. 
We are much obliged to the citizens of Cooperstown for 
their kindly interest, and we believe we have deserved it. 
We may say, without any conceit, we have every reason to 
believe we shall maintain the standard set by our endeavors 
in this field of homemaking journalism. 
MODEL ROOMS IN MINIATURE 
HE National Arts Club, of New York, recently held an 
exhibition of Color Schemes and Model Rooms in Mini- 
ature, designed as object lessons to children in demonstrat- 
ing the possibility of good taste in home decoration at little 
expense. The exhibition consisted of abstract color arrange- 
ments, of color schemes for rooms, of water colors, and 
model rooms in miniature of different types and periods, 
prepared by the teachers of home economics in the public 
schools of. New York as an exhibition of their work in 
relation to the use of color in household arts. The minia- 
ture rooms shown proved conclusively the great value of 
such teaching in our schools, and other cities should follow 
the example of the practical teaching of New York in this 
respect. 
THE FURNITUREZAND£DECORATIVE ART EXPOSITION 
HERE will be an interesting exhibition held in New 
York for ten days commencing on January 12. This is 
to be the initial Furniture and Decorative Art Exposition, 
a project supported by a committee consisting of John W. 
Alexander, President of the School Art League; Frank 
Aloah Parsons, Vice-President of the New York School of 
Applied Design; Le Mont A. Warner, Professor of House- 
hold Fine Arts at Columbia University; William Sloane 
Coffin, President of the Department of Architecture, Brook- 
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; James Parton Haney, 
Vice-President of the School Art League; Edward P. 
Sperry, Director of the New York School of Applied De- 
sign for Women, and Eugene Pitou, Jr., Secretary of the 
Municipal Art Society. Industrial art as applied to interior 
decoration will form the groundwork of the exhibition, in 
connection with which arrangements are being made for 
loan exhibitions of various groups of furnishings, historical 
and otherwise. Aside from the Arts and Crafts Expositions 
which have been held in America, from time to time, we 
have not had anything planned of so comprehensive a nature, 
and this exposition will be sure to make a strong appeal to 
every homemaker. 
HE Editor wishes to correct an error which crept into 
the attribution to an article in the November number 
and in the table of contents. “‘Trays Worth Having,” by 
Lydia Le Baron Walker, was in both instances, through an 
oversight, credited to Lydia Le Baron Westcott. 
