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HOME AND FLOWERS 



its physical drudgery, that you may have 

 time for the life beautiful. 



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The readers of Home and Flowers will 

 not call it a lack of modesty if the editor 

 ventures here to repeat some of the words 

 of encouragement which have come to 

 him from well-known and representative 

 people and publications all over the coun- 

 try. President Eliot, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, "fully and heartily sympathizes with 

 the object of the magazine." Dr. Henry 

 Van Dyke, of Princeton, declares that our 

 ^^propaganda is ideal." "Excellently well 

 done" is the verdict of Senator Hoar, of 

 Massachusetts. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst wel- 

 comes the appearance of Home and Flov^- 

 ERS in the magazine field as an indication 

 that "something is to be emphasized be- 

 sides money, war and stocks." Mrs. Jef- 

 ferson Davis believes we "are on the right 

 road to do incalculable good." "I most 

 heartily SAmipathize with your aims," 

 writes Richard Watson Gilder, editor of 

 Tlie Century Magazine. The Methodist 

 Young People^s organ, Tlie Epworth Her- 

 ald, calls Home and Flowers "a very 

 beautiful magazine with a very beautiful 

 purpose," and the Pittsburg Christian 

 Advocate declares "it will bless any home 

 it is allowed to enter." 



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The readers themselves, for whom the 

 magazine is published, have been very 

 appreciative. "I cannot get along with- 

 out Home and Floavers any more than 

 I can get along without my broom," writes 

 one. Mrs. Julia M. Klinck (Nebraska) 

 writes, "Home and Flow^ers is a little 

 evangel of beauty to which the whole 

 world should give a hearing. It strikes 

 a high note in esthetics, art and civics. Its 

 editorials place it upon an equal plane 

 with any of our literary magazines." Mrs. 



Sallie S. Watkins (Alabama) declares 

 she loves Home and Flowers so much 

 that, "if you ever fail to send it I shall 

 certainly board the train and come for it 

 myself." Mrs. J. S. Myers (Virginia) 

 writes, "Flowers, Civic Improvement, 

 Sunshine — each alone is worth the price 

 of the journal." Nor are commendations 

 wanting from the men. Mr. Daniel Lees 

 (Pennsylvania) says, "To my mind, the 

 presence of Home and Flowers upon any 

 table is an indication of culture and re- 

 finement." Mr. A. P. Smith (Massachu- 

 setts) declares "Home and Flowers is 

 an almost ideal magazine. It has a soul 

 in it, and must prosper." 



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But appreciation is not limited to 

 words. A farmer's wife in California, who 

 has no spare money, keeps a number of 

 hens, she says solely for the purpose of 

 laying eggs to get Home and Flowers. 

 Another lady (in Texas) writes that she 

 cannot send any money, but has embroid- 

 ered a handkerchief which she hopes the 

 publishers will take in payment for the 

 magazine, as "I cannot do without it." 

 A gentleman in Oregon sends the price of 

 subscription for five years in advance. 



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The magazine is no longer exclusively 

 devoted to flowers — although flowers still 

 claim a large share of its attention, and 

 rightfully, because of their refining in- 

 fluence. Everything that conduces to the 

 life beautiful is in its field. The editor _ 

 will be grateful for any suggestions, com- 

 mendations or criticisms. He will not 

 promise to agree with all you may say. 

 He may have good reasons, unknown to 

 you, for going contrary to your individual 

 opinions — there are many individual ideas 

 to be taken into account, and, you know,, 

 the majority rules. 



