FEBRUARY, 1913 
CONTENTS 
Contents Design : Photograph by Grace Aspinwall. 89 
Frontispiece: Photograph by Julian A. Dimock. 90 
Our Winter in the Happy Valley. 91 
By A. W. Dimock 
The Vital Functions of Light in the Home. 95 
By F. Laurent Godinez 
A Summer Home Well Furnished . 97 
By Mary H. Northend 
Old Philadelphia Houses . nj 
By Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
The Hundred Per Cent. Garden...( 116 
By F. F. Rockwell 
The Home of Dr. Theodore Abbott. 118 
Parker Morse Hooper, Architect 
Inside the House. 120 
Beautifying the Small Backyard.... 100 
The Lure of the Orchid. 102 
By Tyndall Bishop 
The Place of Built-in Furniture in the House. 105 
By Louise Shrimpton 
Foliage Plants Everyone May Grow . 108 
By F. F. Rockwell 
A Page of Old Lanterns. hi 
Serviceable Garages of Good Design . 112 
By A. Raymond Ellis 
Floral Decoration at Horne 
To Clean Unlacquered Brass 
Hiding the Unsightly Radiator 
A Convenient Shelf Closet 
Garden Suggestion and Queries ... 122 
First Steps Toward the Vegetable Garden 
How Much to Plant .' 
The Ice Crop 
Priming and Spraying 
Editorial ..124 
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VOLUME XXIII 
HENRY H. SAYLOR 
Editor 
Copyright. 1913, by McBride, Nast &■ Co. 
WILLIAM A. VOLLMER 
Managing Editor 
NUMBER 2 
