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HOME AND FLOWERS 



FEATURES OF 



1 LEADING ARTICLES FOR 



URING 1903 Mr. Rexford's department will maintain its high standard and a number of new 

 features for it are in contemplation. Some of the ideas which have proved especially 

 valuable and interesting will be emphasized and strengthened. Mrs. Drennan and Mr. 



Egan will continue to supply articles to supplement Mr. Rexford's department. It will 

 hereafter be even more fully illustrated than formerly. Before long the Editor hopes to visit Mr. 

 Rexford at his home and present a familiar word picture of our genial floral authority under his 

 own vine and flg ti-ee. 



THE WELL ORDERED HOUSEHOLD" 



The new department which was begun in our November number will be continued throughout 

 this year. Miss Van Rensselaer will give the readers of Home and FiiOWERS the benefit of her 

 varied and eminentlj- practical experience in dealing with the actual problems which confront 

 the women of America. She will conduct this household department for Home and Flowers 

 exclusively, and will answer any questions the readers of the magazine may care to ask. Miss 

 Van Rensselaer is the editor of the Cornell University Housewives' Reading Course, and Chair- 

 man of the Domestic Science Department of the Western New York Federation of Women's 

 Clubs. H03IE AND Floweks Will be the medium through which the Cornell Housewives' Reading 

 Course is presented to the women of the United States, outside of the State of New York. Such 

 subjects as Home Saiiltatloii, The Best Way to Do Hoiiseworlc, Gardening, Food for tlie 

 Farmer's Family, How to Furiilsli tlie Table, Pliysical Bducatiou Applied to Housework:, 

 and other practical subjects will be considered, not from the standpoint of the outside theorist, but 

 from the point of view, and out of the depths of the oftimes bitter experience of thousands of 

 hard woi'king women, who are facing conditions, not theories. ^ 

 In connection with The Well Oidered Household, acompetent writer, Miss Rosa E. Pa^me 

 will contribute a series of short, suggestive papers on different phases of the dress problem, show- 

 ing how even clothes may be made helpful in living the life beautiful. Such titles as Simplicity 

 In Dress, Tlie Exqnisiteness of Neatness, A Study of Figure, Taste in Color, Tlie Relation 

 of Clothing to Living, will iudicate the scope and general character of these articles. The first 

 of these articles appear this month. Arrangements are being made also to supply, regularly, a 

 suggestive menu for each day in the month, outlining simple, but^ healthful meals artistically 

 prepared. 



"THE WORLD BEAUTIFUL," 



"A SURVEY OF CURRENT BETTERMENT EFFORT" 



Will be continued and enlarged. In this department each month the editor will record the 

 more important events in the line of civic betterment and esthetic development, both in this 

 country and abroad. Representative happenings of the day which make for a more beautiful 

 American life, and those events abroad which have a bearing on American affairs will be recorded 

 with interpretative comment. The editor will aim to make this department of Home and Flow- 

 ers a monthly newspaper of a new and inspiring kind. Like the old sun-dial, we will only mark 

 the hours that shine. There will be plenty to mark the storms. 



"PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE 

 THE WORLD MORE BEAUTIFUL" 



A series of articles on people who, by voice and pen, have contributed to the beautifying of sur- 

 roundings, began in December with the story of L<uther Burhank. John liuskin, William 

 Morris, Crane and Burne.Jones and other English artists and art workers, and other 

 "preachers" of a better time, wall be considered, besides some of the men of today and our own. 

 country who have contributed to the intellectual elevation and artistic development of the peo- 

 ple—such men as J. H. Stout, prominent in pushing the traveling library idea, our own Mr. 

 Rexford and James Vick. 



FLOWERS LOVED BY GREAT MEN" 



In December the first of thisfseries was published. It was entitled, Dichens and the Geranium. 

 Other papers will be on Beaconstield and the Primrose, Emperor William and the Corn- 

 flower, Napoleon III and the Violet, McKinley and the Carnation. 



'LIVES OF FRAGRANT MEMORY" 



Two series of four or five papers each will make up this feature, one, by Miss Myrtle Bennett, on 

 "Artists' Personalities and What They Teach Us," and the other on writers and public men 

 whose teachings make for the life beautiful. This latter series will be by Mrs. Danske Dandridge, 

 and will include pen pictures of such sunny lives as those of Sidney Smith, Benjamin Frank- 

 lin Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thoreau and others. 



