DECEMBER, 1916 
(Contents vol. xxx, no. six 
Cover Design by Charles Livingston Bull 
The Harmonies of Frozen Music. 10 
R. F. Barker, architect 
Concerning the House of Christmas. 11 
Edith Wares 
The Fragile Winter Jewelry of the Sky. 13 
The Tea House at Georgian Court. 14 
Gifts of Things That Grow. 16 
D. R. Edson 
Toby Mugs and Other Jugs. 17 
Albert Lee 
The Way of Converging Roads. 18 
The Background of Natural Wood. 19 
Coolridge & Shattuck, architects 
How to Order Gifts. 20 
When You Gather Round the Blazing Christmas Fire 21 
There’s Always a Place for Occasional Furniture- 22 
Or Perhaps It Is on This Page. 23 
She Never Has Too Much Crystal and Linen. 24 
What the Hostess May Find on Her Christmas-Table. 25 
For His Very Own Room. 26 
Gifts of Beauty and Utility for Her Boudoir. 27 
There Was a Little Girl. 28 
A Study of Trees in Winter. 29 
E. P. Powell 
Small Clubs for Town and Country. 30 
J. Fletcher Street and Collier Stevenson 
From Pine Knot Torch to Electricity. 32 
Mary H. Nortliend 
That Troublesome Door. 34 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 35 
The Garden in the House. 38 
Grace Tabor 
Good Little Gifts for Good Little Girls. 39 
The Residence of H. S. Ladew, Esq., at Brookfield, L. I. 40 
J. W. O’Connor, architect 
Doing Your Christmas Bit for the Birds. 42 
Lee S. Crandall 
A Revival of Graffito. 44 
Ida J. Burgess 
For Boys From Six to Sixty. 
Making the Farming Business Pay. 
Flora Lewis Marble 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 47 
Give Them a Dog and You Give Them a Friend. 48 
Your All-Year Garden. 50 
F. F. Rockwell 
Furnishing the Hospitable Hall. 51 
Agnes Foster 
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MOTOR I N G I NTO 19 17 
<J Ten years ago a motor was a luxury, like 
a silk hat and a gold headed cane and a place 
in the country. Today it is a necessity, and 
there is no use having the silk hat or the 
cane or the country place unless you can live 
up to it in a car. In 1907 only 44,000 were 
built; in 1916, 1,200,000 valued at $900,000,- 
000 were owned by Americans. 
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