An Appeal '' And what, " said Alice to her patient sister, " is the use of reading 
something which has neither pictures nor conversation? " 
This pertinent question might be asked of News and Views, 
the department designed as the Gossip Shop of the Bulletin of the 
Garden Club or America, a department where the ever-agree- 
able personal element is ardently desired. 
It is to be hoped that News in any form will be sent in for publica- 
tion at frequent intervals by member Clubs, Failing voluntarily 
contributed items, it may be necessary to resort to a method which, 
quoting again from the best book ever written, is "my own invention. " 
This method would be to select a Club at random, and over its name 
insert garden happenings of intense imaginary interest. As this would 
immediately bring forth repudiation from the indignant Club in 
question, a correspondence would be established, and to our readers 
an entertaining field of endless possibihty for enjoyment, at once be 
opened. 
Seriously, however, it is to be hoped that each of the fifty member 
Clubs will, unless this be already an accomplished fact,' appoint as 
soon as possible, a Bulletin or News Committee (a committee of three 
members, with two incapacitated, works admirably for this purpose) 
to keep eyes and ears open for all sorts of things pertaining to in- 
dividual Club events of special interest, and to bits of out-door 
experience not necessarily confined to actual gardening — the more 
local the contributions, the better for our purpose — and in this way 
to co-operate generously, courageously and industriously with News 
and Views, supplying this department of the Bulletin with a 
substitute for the "pictures and conversation" regarded by Alice 
and her many metaphorical sisters as the criterion of literary worth. 
Martha H. B. McKnight. 
The Garden Club Trip to the North Shore From a 
Non-Delegate's Point of View 
How can one do justice to its pleasure and its success! To the 
admirable arrangements made for us by the Hostess Club, or to the 
hospitality of the individual hostesses, who lunched and dined us, 
by fifties and by hundreds, in halls, on stately terraces and in mar- 
quees. 
In many places their houses as well as their gardens were thrown 
open to the tread of marching feet, many, many feet, for four hundred 
members attended, and ninety graciously offered motors whirled us 
from one scene of beauty to another. 
Fifteen gardens were named on the official program, but many 
others were visited through special invitations and personal acquain- 
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