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House & Garden 
THE GIFTS OF DECEMBER 
LJAVE you ever noticed the way the Christmas 
1 1 editions of English magazines are edited? Some¬ 
one, many years ago, created a formula for them 
—and they’ve never changed. Of course, there 
are a lot of pages in color—girls in ballet skirts 
being kissed under the mistletoe and obstreperous 
children dancing around a tree and the usual 
church and snow scene. These are perfectly 
harmless and sometimes pleasing. But the text! 
“Christmas Bells in Kamchatka,” “Watching the 
Old Year Out In Beluchistan,” “Plum Pudding 
In Pretoria,” “The Wessex Wassail Bowl.” The 
idea seems to be to represent the entire empire in 
these issues. 
Were American Christmas editions edited in 
this fashion our readers would have to wade 
through such pabulum as the following—“Mak¬ 
ing Merry in New Mexico.” “Holly and Holly¬ 
wood,” “Minnesota Hangs The Mistletoe,” “Santa 
Claus Caught Sleeping in Philadelphia.” 
Fortunately for American readers, we have not 
adopted that British formula. We’ve taken an 
entirely new viewpoint on how readers can be 
best served by Christmas issues. The Nast 
Group of which House & Garden is a humble 
part, is edited to help its readers select Christmas 
gifts; its Shopping Service helps facilitate their 
purchases. 
Long before the average reader thinks of 
Christmas, when summer is still on the land, be¬ 
fore the trees turn, our shoppers have started 
This immaculate kitchen 
corner, with its shelf over 
the door, and its valance, 
is.one of a number shown 
in the December issue 
of House & Garden 
to work on these issues. For Vogue there must 
be over four hundred gifts, for Vanity Fair over 
a hundred and for House & Garden over two hun¬ 
dred. They must be photographed or sketched. 
An endless amount of bookkeeping is done about 
the prices and the available stocks. When the 
last page of gifts has been released to the printer, 
a motor takes these shoppers off to a sanitarium 
where they recuperate the rest of the winter. 
The word “Service” has been very much over¬ 
worked, but that is the principle of these three 
magazines in their holiday issues. Not that we 
aren’t interested in how they celebrate the day in 
Kamchatka, but really, we are more interested 
in helping the woman in Kalamazoo and the 
man in Dallas do their Christmas shopping. And 
because there are all lengths and breadths of 
pocketbooks, and all manner of people to give 
to, the gifts in these issues are vastly varied in 
price and kind. 
There will be over twelve pages of Christmas 
gifts in the December House & Garden. Each 
gift is numbered, so that their ordering through 
the Shopping Service is made a simple matter. 
Of course, there are other things in the issue— 
forty or more pages of other things. These you 
can turn to when the shopping is done. 
As there will be quite a demand for this issue 
it might be wise to order your copy from the 
news agent now. 
Contents for November , 1922. Volume XLII, No. Five 
Cover Design by Bradley Walker Tomlin 
The House & Garden Bulletin Board. 
The Silhouette Value of Wrought Iron . 
Lutton Abbotswood 
Decorative Wrought Iron. 
Giles Edgerton 
“Parge House,” New York City. 
Frederick Sterner, Architect 
How to be Homely Though Handsome. 
The Manor Hall. 
C. M. Hart, Architect 
Evolving A House Plan. 
Lutton Abbotswood 
Occasional Chairs.. 
A. T. Wolfe 
The Gallic Trend in Domestic Architecture 
H. D. Eberlein 
Collecting Mexican Mmolica. 
Gardner Teall 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 
The Bungalow Problem. 
C. A. Ziegler 
Using Red in Decoration. 
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Your Shutters and Your Home. . 
Amelia Leavitt Hill 
Solving The Garage Problem. 
If You Are Going to Build. 
Mary Fanton Roberts 
Stains and Enamels. 
Henry Compton 
A Group of Three Houses . 
A Garden in the Air. 
Minga Pope Duryea 
The Linen on the Line. 
Verna Cook Salomonsky 
Uncommon Shrubs. 
H. Stuart Ortloff 
Planning the Kitchen. 
Nina Wilson Badenoch 
Household Weights and Measures 
Ethel R. Peyser 
When You Plan Your Garden... 
Richard H. Pratt 
For Early t Christmas Shoppers.... 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 
Pages From A Decorator’s Diary. 
Ruby Ross Goodnow 
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be effected in less than one month. 
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