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Contents for October, 1917. Volume XXXII, No. Four 
House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
Cover Design by Charles Livingston Bull 
Frontispiece—A White House in the Woods. 12 
Chester A. Patterson, Architect 
In Southern Gardens. 13 
A. Carter Goodloe 
The Residence of Walter M. Schwartz, Esq., Chestnut 
Hill, Pa. 16 
Robert R. McGoodwin, Architect 
The Four Corners of the Guest Room. 18 
E. L. H. Rennie 
Your Garden Balance Sheet. 20 
Down the Dale the Autumn Goes . 20 
Clinton Scollard 
Tile and Cement in Garden Structures. 21 
The Mirror of Mars. 23 
Gardner Teall 
The Bulbs for Fall Planting. 24 
Grace Tabor 
The Residence of Robert L. Dula, Esq., Tarrytown, N. Y. 26 
Chester A. Patterson, Architect 
The Civilized Framing of Pictures. 27 
Rollin Lyndc Hartt 
Methods of Making Batiks . 28 
G. W. Harting 
Rooms That Are Different. 30 
Indoor Primulas from A to Z. 31 
Martha Haskell Clark 
The Roof of the Room. 32 
The Best Methods of Pruning Roses. 33 
IF. R. Gilbert 
Work Stands for War Knitters. 33 
How to Buy Furniture. 34 
H. W. Dana 
Autumn Haze in the Garden. 35 
Helen Wilson 
Valances of Unusual Design.. 36 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 37 
Life as It Is Lived in “The Birdcage”. 40 
Maud M. Keck 
New Designs in Chinese Lacquer. 41 
Fall Planting Table. 42 
First Steps in Shrub Selection. 43 
F. F. Rockwell 
The Balustrade in Garden Art. 44 
H. S. Seymour 
A Country House of Unusual Architectural Lines. 46 
Eugene J. Lang, Architect 
Ferns That Flourish in the House. 47 
L. Greenlee 
Black and Gray in a Bedroom. 48 
Winnifrcd Fales 
Convenient Devices for the House. 49 
Seen in The Shops. 50 
Harvesting the War Crqp. 52 
D. R. Edson 
Thirty-Six Facts About Color. 53 
The Garden of Yellow and Deep Maroon. 54 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 56 
Copyright, 1917, by The Vogue Company 
PLANNING THE HOUSE 
T HE two questions that arise when 
one starts to plan a house are: 
“What kind of a house does my 
life need?” and “What sort of a house 
will I be most satisfied with?” Of 
course there are hundreds of other ques¬ 
tions, but these two are fundamentals. 
And because they are fundamental, the 
next issue of House & Garden has tried 
to present as many types and sizes of 
houses as possible and to explain the 
facilities and advantages of each. Half- 
timbered houses, stucco-on-stone, stucco 
on metal lath, brick, shingle, clapboard. 
Houses with big chimneys and little 
chimneys, houses costing a considerable 
sum and houses of moderate cost, all of 
them good architecturally, all good to 
live in. 
To make house planning still easier, 
there will be articles on what to expect 
from your architect, how to plan for a 
greenhouse attached to the residence, 
how to handle the problem of the ceiling 
predate the decorative value of woods. 
There is a little vest pocket house in November, 
made of shingle, built around a court. The very sort of 
house you hope some day to build 
and how to know and ap- 
Planning the inside of the house is 
just as necessary as planning its archi¬ 
tecture. Rooms must be the sort one’s 
life demands, the sort one is most satis¬ 
fied with. Suggestions for such rooms 
will be found in the Little Portfolio, in 
the article on Italian chairs, on the use 
of Korean chests in the modern home, 
the hanging of Spanish coverlets, the 
use of lace in interior decoration and the 
assortments of new pillows that the 
shoppers have gathered. 
Planning the garden is the third prob¬ 
lem for the complete home—the garden 
outside and the garden indoors. For the 
garden indoors there can be orchids—- 
you will read of those easiest raised— 
and all manner of greenhouse plants. 
There will be trees on the lawn, and 
these too are considered in this issue. 
It is difficult, mes freres, to tell in the 
short space of 387 words all the remark¬ 
able features of this House Planning 
Number, to tell of the expert who tells how to buy fabrics, and the article 
on slate roofs, and . . . Patience! It will be out before October ends ! 
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