August, i p i 6 
49 
ADVICE ON AUTUMN 
FURNISHINGS 
September House & Garden is a guide to the annual autumn furnishing and 
refurnishing of the tasteful home. Next month you will be investing a great 
deal of time, thought, and money in putting your house to rights for the 
winter months. You cannot afford to be without the accurate judgment of 
trained experts on house problems. 
House & Garden is a council of experts discussing all sorts of house and 
garden problems. We are making this September number solidly compact 
with household “do’s” and “don’ts.” These are just a few of the subjects 
treated—there are dozens more: 
Reclaiming the Old Apartment 
Gardens Among Stones - 
The Rugs of the Heathen Chinee - 
Preserving Your Periods 
To Blossom at Christmas 
Hansel, Gretel & Co. 
How skilful management, good taste, and 
$800 transformed a nine-room ark into a 
thing of beauty. 
How to bring a bit of the country home to 
your city residence by means of the rock 
garden. 
Chinese rugs are growing in popularity, and 
advice on how to tell the poor from the ex¬ 
cellent is timely. 
Skilled advice on the selection and arrange¬ 
ment of furniture in harmony with its back¬ 
ground and the architecture of your home. 
A practical article on getting your house 
plants ready for winter and making certain 
of early blooming. 
The amiable and unappreciated little dachs¬ 
hund as an indoor city pet. 
There will be ever so many photographs of good house arrangements, period 
styles in furniture, new wall papers, and good interiors. Fifty percent of the 
issue is devoted to practical autumn furnishing problems. Every regular 
department will concentrate on them. Don’t risk disappointment with your 
furnishings this winter because you were uncertain what you wanted to do 
this fall. Twenty-five cents expended on House & Garden for September 
will bring you twenty-five hundred percent return in house contentment. 
There will be a big demand for this particular number. To make sure of it, 
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