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JULY, 1917 
(Contents 
VOL. XXXII, NO. ONE 
Cover Design by Elizabeth Betts Bains 
Trees and the House. 10 
H. Craig Severance, Architect 
The Reasons for Specifying Stucco. 11 
William Hart Boughton 
“Waste Is Bad, Etc.”. 14 
Howard E. Coffin 
Lights for the Small House. 16 
Silk Cord—Flexible . 17 
Viola Brothers Shore 
Editorial . 18 
In the Trenches, by Arthur Guiterman 
The Diversity of Stucco Reliefs. 19 
H. Craig Severance, Architect 
Our Earliest Type of Furniture. 20 
Abbot McClure 
The Exterior of Colonial Houses.. 22 
William B. Bragdon 
The Closet End of It. 24 
Grace Norton Rose 
Successful Small Living • Rooms. 26 
Winifred Fales and M. H. Northend 
A Bow Dutch Cottage in Shingle or Clapboard. 28 
Aymar Embury II 
A Fireproof Country House of English Type. 30 
Frank Chouteau Brown 
A Lesser French Chateau. 32 
Eugene J. Lang 
The Care of Furniture. 34 
A. Ashmun Kelly 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 35 
The House That Was Built in an Afternoon. 38 
Edith Brownell 
Inside the Tea House. 39 
A Small Half-Timbered Country Home. 40 
Druckenmiller, Stackhouse & Williams, Architects 
Making an Old-Fashioned Garden. 41 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang 
The Way California Did It. 44 
Maud M. Keck 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 46 
Convenient Devices for the House. 47 
Seen in ti-ie Shops. 48 
Your Patriotic Patch. 50 
The Best Flowers for a Blue Garden. 51 
Grace Tabor 
Copyright, 1917 , by Comic Nast & Co., Inc. 
MAINLY 
OUT OF 
D O O R S 
I F you set down all the problems 
that confront the householder in 
summer, you will find that they 
are concerned mainly with things out 
of doors. 
There is the window box, for in¬ 
stance, which begins to look “grubby" 
about this time. To settle these prob¬ 
lems there will be an article on how 
to keep the window box in good trim 
all through the hot summer months. 
There is also the lure of the woods 
and the longing to build a little camp 
by the lake shore or by the sea, or 
in the mountains. To satisfy this 
craving there will be two pages of 
camps and cabins with their plans. 
There will also be a page of camp¬ 
ing things and one of motor acces¬ 
sories for those who live out of 
doors these days and seek the trail. 
Also you may crave to live on the 
water; for you, then, are planned houseboats of all sizes with 
hints on how to furnish them. 
Or the country may call you to some old neglected farmhouse 
and your vision may run riot with a dream of what a home you 
could make of it. For such is an old house that offered just 
that chance. The “before and after" 
views show how the transformation 
was made. 
Perchance you may have read 
Maeterlinck or Fabre on the bee, and 
made a resolution to keep bees at the 
country place. Well, even that crav¬ 
ing is partly satisfied by an article 
on how to care for bees, written by 
an old hand with them. 
But this is only a small part of 
that delectable August issue, for there 
will be articles on lilies—most sea¬ 
sonable at this time; yellbw flowers 
and how to make a yellow garden; 
war gardens—and how the women of 
America can learn of their manage¬ 
ment from the women of Canada; a 
page of the butterflies you may meet 
on a summer day’s tramp—but never 
recognized until you saw these pic¬ 
tures; the Little Portfolio that all 
householders and decorators watch for up-to-date suggestions; 
and finally two houses, one of stone in the Colonial fashion, and 
the other in clapboard, a little California house to please the 
heart Here is an issue centered around the big outdoors, with 
the indoors by no means forgotten. 
There are cabins, camps and cottages in the 
August number, of which this is one 
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