. American homes and gardens. in length and twoor three hundred feet in width, coveredwith trees, bushes and high grass. Therewere no children running about the prop-erty to annoy the birds and other wildcreatines that made their home there, andgeneration after generation came and , when the tract was sold and housesbegan to appear on it one by one the birdsand bunnies and squirrels began to dwindlein numbers, packing up and getting out tosafer climes. Instinct told them that theboys and cats that go with their natural enemies. But there weresome that would not be
. American homes and gardens. in length and twoor three hundred feet in width, coveredwith trees, bushes and high grass. Therewere no children running about the prop-erty to annoy the birds and other wildcreatines that made their home there, andgeneration after generation came and , when the tract was sold and housesbegan to appear on it one by one the birdsand bunnies and squirrels began to dwindlein numbers, packing up and getting out tosafer climes. Instinct told them that theboys and cats that go with their natural enemies. But there weresome that would not be driven out by mereappearances, notably a family of jays thatmade its home in the crotch of a particularlyold tree. This family had become so at-tached to the place that not even the Win-ters snow could drive it away. The blue-crested heads bobbing up and down in dili-gent search for food when the earth iswrapped in a mantle of white have becomea familiar scene in the neighborhood. AsSummer sees little newcomers gfoooo(gxxxx>§E)t [g] x^oooocjoooo^x 4S§^jj rs§cxxxxg>oooo§§x (j^§^ rj|cxxxxg)oooo#EX HSoooo^oooo^ CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1913 271274277279280 The Brinckerhoff House Frontispiece An Old Homestead of Colonial New Jersey By Joseph Bernard Pearman 267 Small Bronzes for the Home By Elizabeth Lounsbery A Remodeled Farmhouse at Nyack, New York By William T. Phillips A Long Bloom in a Hardy Garden By Charlotte Cowdrey Brown A Distinctive Cottage at Miami, Florida Making a Summer Home Out of an Old Farmhouse By Jessie Tarbox Beals The Well-Designed Window of Architectural Harmony 282-283 The Homestead—The Country Home of Mr. William L. Otis, Waterford, Conn. . 284 Bird Cages By Walter F. Webster 289 Wax Portraiture By Gardner Teall 293 Old Time Pipe Stoppers By Marie Elizabeth Camp 295 Within the House: Furnishing the Remodeled Farmhouse By George Crane 296 Around the Garden: The Garden in August 298 Helps to the Housewife: Informal Living in the Open
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