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If you will save your "Civics
for Houston" throughout the
year you will find at the end
of the year that you will have
a valuable volume which may
easily be bound in attractive

cover.

It will not only mark a his-
torical sketch of the year's pro-
gress, but will give you many
practical ideas about your city,
your home and your garden.
We may even dare, some day,
to venture into the field of your
cat and your dog, but we won't
how to raise your

try to tell you

babies.

"More and Better Gardens"

will always be the toast of our

garden department and we will,

each month, tell you news of

gardens and gather for you in-

formation which will be suited

to this climate and soil.

Not only will we be able to

tell you what will grow here,
when to plant it and when it
will bloom, but we will endeavor
to give you real information as
to care of plants and the avoid-
ance or cure of plant diseases
and insect pests.

It is comparatively simple to

plan a city where all the laws

of the state are in favor of such

planning and upheld by police

protection.

But there are still some of our

states that are rather far behind

in such laws.

In our February issue we will

tell you something of the legal

şide of city planning in the State

of Texas.

We shall also, in this next

issue, point out what laws are
lacking in this direction that are
now in force in other states and
the benefits that might accrue
from them.

Definite cases which have

caused decisions favoring better

Entered as third class matter, January 20, 1928 at the Post

Office at Houston, Texas. Permit No. 121. Copyright 1928.

VOLUME 1, NUMBER I

I,

Every country has its atmos-

phere.

America, covering such vast

territory of widely varied char-
acter, has many atmospheres.

As we travel into the north

the houses become narrower and

taller, the stairway must be con-

sidered more in the matter of

design.

Houses of New England look

out at us from fan lights and
side lights, with tiered sloping
roof line as outbuildings are
combined with the main build-
ing. Houses of the big cities are
coldly impersonal, peering at us
from behind drawn curtains, for-
bidding us to enter.

But here in Houston is being
developed a new phase of archi-
tecture that seems to sing of the
spirit of this southwest country,
to tell of the days of our first
American ancestors and to recall
tales of adventure when Span-
iards made the Gulf their home.
In our February number John
F. Staub will tell us of his new
interpretation in "Latin Colonial
Architecture for the Southwest."

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Whether the period used is of

Renaissance, Louis XIV, Fed-

eral Era, Empire, Early Ameri-

can or Georgian, or even a pot-

pourri of many periods, the in-

terior must be in harmony with

the design of the exterior, and
with the moods of the occupants.

Next month we shall be told
in interesting and authoritative
fashion by Dorothy Dawes Chill-
man of interesting adaptations
suitable for use in furnishing a
Latin Colonial home. This arti-
cle will be accompanied by views
of interiors in some of Houston's
interesting homes.

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