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CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1913 



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The Home of Mr. Frederick J. Williamson Frontispiece 



A Pre-Reyolutionary House on the Hudson By Harriet Gillespie 375 



The Cat Fancy By Ida D. Bennett 380 



House of Mr. A. Cluthe, at Glen Ridge, N. J 383 



The Decoratiye Value of the Piano in the Home By Elizabeth Lounsbery 384 



An American Country Estate By Robert H. Van Court 388 



A Successful Suburban Home . .By Helen Wethrell 394 



A Collection of Old Watches By Costen Fitz-Gibbon 396 



Old Printed Chintzes By Lawrence Townsend 400 



Within the House : 



Personality and "Period" in the Arrangement of the Home, 



By Ferdinand Gottschalk 404 

 Around the Garden: 



November in the Garden By Gardner Teall 406 



Helps to the Housewife : 



A Table Suggestion for a Child's Party By Mary H. Northend 407 



Collectors' Department New Books Editor's Notebook 



The Collectors' Mart 





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Copyright 1913 by Munn & Co., Inc. Registered in United States Patent Office. Entered as second-class matter June 15, 1905, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., 

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