Contents for December, 1917. Volume XXXII, No. Six 
House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
Cover Design by Elizabeth Betts Bains 
Frontispiece—A Philadelphia Bystreet. 18 
Jack Manley Rose 
An Early Philadelphla Christmas. 19 
Grace Norton Rose 
The House in Christmas Dress. 21 
The Story of Sheffield Plate. 22 
Gardner Teall 
The Bridge Between Christmas Here and Christmas There. 24 
Transplanted Architecture. 25 
Lewis Colt Albro, Architect 
Powder Rooms of Yesterday and Today. 27 
Emily Burbank 
George Cable Talks of Gardens. 28 
Williams Haynes 
How to Order Your Gifts. 30 
Christmas Gifts for the House.. 31 
All of the Hollies. 39 
Grace Tabor 
Farm Buildings of Dr. Clarence Fahnestock. 40 
Lewis Colt Albro, Architect 
How to Buy Wall Papers. 42 
Eugene Clute 
The Residence of Lieut. Col. C. H. Edgar, Grosse Pointe, Mich. 44 
Albert Kahn, Architect 
New Color Notes in Decorated Shades. 46 
Agnes Foster Wright 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 47 
Conscripting the Greenhouse. 50 
William C. McCollom 
A House of Surprising Interiors.... 52 
James Pur don, Architect 
Arbutus, Blueberries, et al .... i . 54 
F. F. Rockwell 
A Small, Semi-Town House. ;...." . 55 
Guy Study, Architect 
First Aid to Sick Ceilings.:. 56 
Mary H. Northend 
Hyacinths That Never See the Soil. 56 
The Garden That Grows in the House . 57 
D. R. Eds on 
Hospitable Halls . 58 
H. T. Huber, Decorator 
Trailing the Chinese Rug. 59 
Clifford Poppleton 
The Gardener’s Kalendar. 60 
Copyright, 1917, by The Vogue Company 
THE FURNITURE NUMBER 
A MAN builds a house once a life 
time, but his wife is constantly 
‘ furnishing and refurnishing it. 
This constant appeal is amply satisfied 
by the slowly changing fashions in fur¬ 
niture and decoration. And into the 
Furniture Number there will be com¬ 
pacted about as much of these fashions 
as any issue could hold. Not that the 
interests of architecture and gardening 
are neglected—but this is a furniture 
number, and furniture and decorations 
occupy over 45% of the editorial space. 
Here, for instance, is Spanish furni¬ 
ture described and pictured, and a new 
style that is a cross between Spanish 
and Italian, the two popular modes of 
the day. Here are pages on the Persian 
motif in furniture, on when and where 
to use painted furniture, on the facts 
about over-stuffed furniture, suggestions 
on choosing the right chair for your 
desk. Besides, there will be a page of 
color schemes—as indispensable to the housewife as cooking recipes— 
a page showing substitutes for the sideboard, another showing the 
latest linens, and still another on mak¬ 
ing the most of deep windows. And as 
a finishing touch comes a page of 
wrought iron and the three pages of A 
Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. Nor 
should you overlook the description of 
over-door decoration or the ten-minute 
article on the necessary furnishing for 
the enclosed porch. 
Wise gardeners begin their paper 
work in January. More folks than 
ever before, now that war gardening is 
so necessary, will be planning their veg¬ 
etable garden at this time. To help 
them and Uncle Sapi, a garden expert 
has laid out three vegetable plots, calcu¬ 
lated the space, cost and kinds of seeds 
to plant, and the amount of vegetables 
you should gather. Another expert 
writes on making a blue garden, and 
an amateur tells her gardening experi¬ 
ences and what they led to. 
Of houses there are three: a preten¬ 
tious brick house from Pittsburg, a quaint Long Island farmhouse of 
shingle, and a little stucco Colonial house from Hartford. 
Among the many interiors shown in the next issue is 
this living room, an apartment of unusual distinction 
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