Has Your Officer 
Hung Up His Coat? 
CoantryLife 
Goes back to a peace basis wi^ the February 
issue, and the editors announce a series of color 
manuals that will be guides to good taste in 
everything that pertains to the Country home. 
“ . . . And the very minute they were 
mustered out, the captain got married — 
to me! If a home ivere a canteen I could 
plan it, but as it is, all I see is that I dont 
want him to hang up his coat in anything 
the least like the old thirteen-roomed 
black ivalnut mausoleum where they 
brought me up. . . . Do please plan an 
apartment for me!” 
O F course the letter didn’t stop there. It went 
on into details, financial and otherwise, that 
enabled us to make a background for the 
captain’s coat, that began with a wee entrance 
hall of much distinction, and progressed into a living 
room with walls of the loveliest faded robin’s egg blue. 
There were curtains bound in blue — curtains of glazed 
chintz with blue and rose peacocks on a putty coloured 
ground. Which chintz was (let us whisper it) a most 
astounding bargain considering its design and colour¬ 
ing. There was a sofa in blue damask, too, with rose 
taffeta cushions; there were alabaster lamps with rose 
chiffon shades and - 
But we can’t tell you about the whole apartment. It 
took five pages to describe it, with everything priced 
and samples enclosed. But the letter we got in re¬ 
turn was worth it. 
You mayn’t be concerned with peacocks in your living 
room. It may be a lily pool, or an electrically equipped 
kitchen, or a super-Morphean sleeping porch, or a 
really productive vegetable garden that tantalizes your 
daydreams. House & Garden knows all the experts 
in New York — architects, decorators, shops, gardeners, 
and landscape artists. Why not put the outline of the 
dream on paper and let us fill it in for you? It’s an 
adventure in possession — and it won’t cost a cent. 
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2-’19 
City 
In February INTERIOR DECORATION 
A color manual that will be devoted largely to 
“After the War” problems, giving in detail a 
comprehensive plan for nation wide reconstruc¬ 
tion of our useful Arts. 
In March GARDENS 
The Garden Manual of COUNTRY LIFE is 
an institution—This year it will be of more than 
usual value, having as contributors some of the 
best known writers, among them Walter 
Pritchard Eaton, Louise B. Wilder and Francis 
Rolt-Wheeler. Hundreds of illustrations and 
eight full pages in color. 
In April BUILDING 
The ban on building has been lifted. This will 
be the first building Manual of COUNTRY 
LIFE in two years. All that is best in archi¬ 
tecture, and all that is new in equipment, well 
illustrated, with superb color plates. 
In May SUMMER FURNISHINGS 
This is the season of the year when you are 
thinking of refurnishing the summer home. 
You will find the Summer Furnishing’s Manual 
a practical guide. Hundreds of fine half-tone 
illustrations and at least eight full pages in 
color. This is only a brief glimpse at the color 
manuals in the forthcoming issues. 
Each succeeding number will have a manual 
on a subject relating to the Country home, 
illustrated with not less than eight pages of 
color and hundreds of half tone plates. Each 
number of COUNTRY LIFE covers more 
than fifty subjects and you will find a sub¬ 
scription to be an investment that returns big 
dividends. 
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These four issues will cost you $2.00 on the news¬ 
stands, but to place COUNTRY LIFE^ in the homes 
of discriminating readers, we offer to send these four 
issues on receipt of the coupon and One Dollar, or if 
it is mqre convenient, send the coupon without remit¬ 
tance and we will bill you. 
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, Publishers, 
Garden City, N. Y. 
Gentlemen: 
Enter my sub.scription for four issues of COUNTRY LIFE 
beginning with February. I enclose $1.00—special price. 
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