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IhOME and flowers for 19031 



I An Outline of Plans for the New Year % 



The program of enlargement and expansion set forth in recent issues of HOME 

 g AND Flowers will be conscientiously carried out during 1903. New features 



ifj are being provided for constantly, and every effort will be made to give our readers 



i THE BEST HOME MAGAZINE IN AMERICA. 



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I *« WINNING HER WAY," by Eben E. Rexford 



^?^ A serial story to begin in January of home and child life in the country. Written in Mr. 



!| Rexford's best vein, full of tenderness and appeal to the love of home and childhood which lies 



g so deep down in all of us, this story will run th; Dugh four or five numbers of the magazine. 



1 "THE ART OF HOME-KEEPING," by Caroline L. Hunt 



^ Helpful suggestions to women in the matter of refining the drudgery of keeping house 



j; into the noble art of presiding over a home. The general testimony of women themselves, ^ 

 and students of both sexes who are working for progress in the home as well as in civic life, is ^ 



^ to the effect that the life beautiful would be possible to many women who now know it not, if ^ 



^ the physical drudgery of house-keeping could be done away with, to a great extent. Miss J 



|- Hunt's article will give us a bit of inspiration, and her advice is reinforced by the inspiring g 



fi» words of Miss Lilian Whiting in her series on The Life Beautiful, and the practical experiences 



2 of the many women readers of the magazine who have written letters on the life beautiful for 

 % the woman in the country. 



I " THE FLORA OF WINTER," by Fred Myers Colby 



^ Some of the beauties of the season of snow in the way of vegetation, which most of us 



^ have no doubt failed to notice. 



1 » LOOKING AT PICTURES," by Mabel S. Emery 



« How to observe illustrations and paintings to get the most benefit from them. Miss 



2 Emery analyzes some of the great paintings and tells us why they are great. 



1 " SCHOOL GARDENS," by Louise Klein Miller ^ 



2 A graphic, up-to-date account of what is being done all over the world by children, in ^ 

 H the way of practical gardening. The article shows the educative influence of this work, and ^ 

 2 its splendid effect upon the characters and health of the children. ^ 



I ««THE FAIRY LAND OF HOME," by Mrs. Danske Dandridge | 



* The first of a series of papers written in Mrs. Dandridge's bright, chatty way, pointing S 



jS[ out how home may be made a veritable fairy land, if the good fairies, LOVE, GOOD HUMOR, S 



j CONTENTMENT, FORBEARANCE and HAPPINESS, are received not as occasional guests, but f 



5 as regular dwellers. ^ 



I "GARDEN CITIES OF ENGLAND," by Ralph Neville | 



An interesting story of an old world's attempt to get back to nature. % 



I " THE TOWN'S OPPORTINITY ", by Charles Mulford Robinson. | 



^ In this last number of his series, Mr. Robinson pictures the moral benefits to the ^ 

 residents of a town, received from their patriotic efforts at "improvement". All these ^ 

 ^ articles will be well illustrated. ^ 



I "IS THE LIFE BEAlTIFliL PRACTICAL?" | 



^ The editorial talk for January will summarize and comment upon the letters received in $ 

 answer to the prize offer made some months ago on, " How Can the Woman in the Country % 

 ^ Attain the Life Beautiful? " The practical experiences of the writers of these letters entitle ^ 

 ^ them to the most serious and earnest consideration. They also are virtually a unit in con- $ 

 tending that the condition of woman's life in the country can be best elevated and refined by ? 

 systems and devices which will save her from "slavery to physical needs", and give her S 

 leisure to develop her intellectual and esthetic sensibilities. 5 



OIR REGULAR DEPARTMENTS | 



In addition to the above articles there will be the regular departments : " Among the 5 

 Flowers with Eben E. Rexford", "The Well Ordered Household", conducted by Miss § 

 ^ Martha Van Rensselaer", "Sunshine Every Day in the Year", "The Mystic Garden", 9^ 

 % Book Notes ", " Survey of Current Betterment", and numerous short sketches, poems, etc. S 



