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House & Garden 
Does Your House Hang Up Its Stocking? 
Christmas is the season of the first person, plural 
possessive — our Family, our Tree, our Home. 
And of the many symbols that express this 
spirit, first comes the gift from "all of us, to 
all of us,” the gift to the house. 
Vou want to know what to put in the house’s 
stocking, don’t you — the newest, homiest, 
charmingest things? You want to know how 
to dress the house to receive its Christmas pres¬ 
ents— how to tie wreaths for it — what to do 
with the Christmas dinner table? 
All this and ever so much more you’ll find — 
pages and pages of it — in the 
DECEMBER 
House & Garden 
Christmas House IS umber 
There’s an article on holly, too — all the hollies, 
bless their red hearts. There’s a little chat on 
’’powder rooms” which have nothing to do with 
munition plants as you might suppose, but hail 
from the days of our Colonial wig-wearing an¬ 
cestors. Fabric hung walls come in for atten¬ 
tion—Sheffield plate — blue gardens—and wall 
papers, this last in the ’’How to Buy ” series. 
Nowadays window shades scorn to be green or white 
but launch boldly out into burnt raspberry with blue 
peacocks. House and Garden shows you bow to choose 
shades that will be as Victorian as Peter Ibbetson. 
Last of all—but first of a new series on gardens— 
George W. Cable tells us how a Creole courtyard can 
charm even Santa Claus into loving a green Christinas. 
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