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ABOUT THE 
& Garden 
AUGUST ISSUE 
T HERE was a bride we knew once, who had a 
doting uncle. A man of means, this uncle, 
and of a generous disposition. When the 
wedding day arrived and the presents were displayed, 
Uncle was represented simply by a little card. The 
card said that the kitchen in that new house was 
to be his gift. Thereupon the bride, although she 
didn't say so, was secretly disappointed. Pots and 
pans and stoves and patented garbage buckets seem 
unromantic gifts. Not till she had come down to 
earth again, had returned to the regular three-meal- 
a-day existence, did she realize that the kitchen was 
quite one of the most acceptable—and expensive— 
presents she had received. 
When we first began planning this August number 
we felt not unlike the bride. It was difficult to wax 
enthusiastic over household equipment. Then, as the 
material began to be assembled, we realized that this 
August issue was going to be one of the most interest¬ 
ing and useful numbers of the year. It has a lot to 
do with kitchens, but it has also a lot to do with 
other kinds of equipment, for furniture is as neces¬ 
sary a piece of equipment as a frying pan. 
So we start off the issue with an article on kitchens. 
Not the ordinary sort of kitchens, nor the ultra¬ 
modern kind that smack too much of operating rooms 
in their immaculate whiteness, but human kitchens, 
Decorative doors are 
shown in the August 
number 
in which color is used effectively. Then you turn a 
few pages and come to pictures showing the use of 
colored oilcloth in decoration. You think of kitchen 
tables covered with oilcloth. But these pages have 
nothing to do with kitchen tables; colored oilcloth 
has become quite a smart material today. Then you 
turn some more pages and encounter a page of good 
advice on how to care for furniture, and beyond that 
photographs of two new kitchens and, still further 
on, shop pages of kitchen things. 
But this is only skimming the surface, for the in¬ 
terest in this issue changes every time you turn the 
pages. Here is a small city garden; next comes a sea¬ 
shore house; then a fine tennis court; then two pages 
of chimney stacks and chimney pots. You pass from 
a contribution on the American birches to a page of 
delightful bay windows. You finish reading about 
Imari ware and fall into the spirit of a jolly story 
about coming upon books unexpectedly in a country 
house. Or you may be envying the owners of the 
group of houses in Kansas City when you turn the page 
and find yourself equally envious of the man so 
fortunate as to possess the delightful little water garden 
in Denver. 
And so this issue goes. It will really be one of the 
best—a lively number to keep you awake on an 
August afternoon. 
Contents for July, 1922, 
Cover Design by Clayton Knight 
Comfort and Period Furniture. 29 
The Garden Side. 30 
Sir Edwin Lutyens, Architect 
Elegance in the Small House. 31 
Agnes Foster Wright 
Formal and Informal Types of Gardens. 34 
In Praise of the Little House... 36 
Charles Hanson Towne 
A House That Was a Dairy . 37 
Chester A. Patterson, Architect 
When You Inherit A Brownstone House. 38 
Alexander King 
Log Cabins for the Summer. 40 
Brook Gardens and Ferneries. 66 
Richard Rothe 
A Nursery That a Child Remembers. 44 
De Armond, Ashmead & Bickley, Architects 
Using Gray in Decoration. 45 
Sheer Curtains for the Country House. 46 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 47 
Miss Gheen, Inc., Decorators 
Volume XLII, No. One 
New England in Georgia. 50 
Convenient Garages of Architectural Merit. 52 
If You Are Going To Build. 53 
Mary Fanton Roberts 
Gardens in Old Foundation Walls. 56 
Norman K. Morse 
Cream and Apple Green for the Cottage. 58 
Weymer Mills 
A Standardized Small House.59 
Patter son-King Corporation, Architects 
Planning the Small City Garden. 60 
Charles S. Le Sure 
A Group of Six Houses. 61 
Quenching the Garden’s Thirst. 42 
E. I. Farrington 
The New Shingles. 68 
Henry Compton 
Modern Mixers in the Kitchen. 69 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Seen in the Shops. 70 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 72 
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