HOME AND FLOWERS 



An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to Q0 

 a More Beautifid American Life 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT SPRINGFIELD, OHIO 



Contents for November, 1902 



Loring Park, Minneapolis 





Frontispiece 





Nation-Wide Civic Betterment 



(Illustrated j 





1 



lieport of the St. Paul Convention of The American League for Civic 



Improvement. 





Home Life of the Japanese Woman . 



rillustrated) 



. Bj' Onoto Watanna 





The More Beautiful London . 



(Illustrated) 



. By Harry Steele Morrison 



11 



A November Etching .... 



(Illustrated) 



. By Alice Brooks . . . . 



1.5 



For Inspiration- A Page of Fugitive Verse 







16 



The House of Happy Hours (I) 



(Illustrated) 



. By Stisie Bouchelle Wight , 



18 



The Town's Opportunity V) 



(Illustrated) . 



. By Charles Mul/ord Robinson . 



22 



Why Not More Beautiful Factories— (Editorial) . . 



. By Louis E. J 'an 2^orman 



24 



Kiss Me, Sweetheart— (Poem) 





. By E. Carl Litsey 



2r 



Among the Flowers with Eben E. Rexford 



(Illustrated) 





28 



Editorial -A Fine-^ Camperdown Elm {IV. C. E-ran); Chrysanthemums- Poem; 

 Of General Floral Interest; November in Southern Gardens {Mrs. G. T. Drcnnan) ; 

 What to Do in November; Our Readers' Perplexities; This, That and the Other. 

 The Well-Ordered Household . . (Illustrated) . . Conducted by Marth ]'an Rensselaer 



An Improved Railroad Crossing . . (Illustrated) . By Harry R. Gelwicks . 



The World Beautiful— A Survey of Current Betterment Effort . . By the Editor 

 Only the Sunny Hours; The Beauty of the Campanile; Civic Improvement Conven- 

 tion; New Opportunities for MenOf Wealth ; Picking Flowers in the Parks; Why Not 

 an American Country Estate? The More Beautiful New York; Apropos of Vacations; 

 Bird and Plant Protection. 



The Farmer Boy's Inheritance 

 The Story of the Dahlia 

 The Legend of the Gentian . 

 My Horse-Muzzle Flower Basket 

 Sunshine Every Day in the Year 

 The Mystic Garden 

 Book and Literary Chat 



Louis E. Van Norman^ Editor 



(Translated from the German) 



By Lee McCrae . 



By Lawrence B. Fletcher 



By E. M. Barrett 



By G. Margaret Gray . 



Conducted by Jessie Mackenzie Walkei 



Conducted by Aunt Eunice 



Eben E. Rexford, Floral Editor 



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Copyrig}it, 1902, l)y The Floral Tublishing Company. Entered as second-class matter at the Springfield, Ohio, postoffice. 

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