I 
July, 1923 
House & Garden 
33 
California house will be 
in the Augjist number 
T here is a strange theory, 
held by some, that maga¬ 
zines are read less in summer 
than in winter. We used to be¬ 
lieve it until we watched a girl 
recently. She was stretched out 
on a wicker chaise longue be¬ 
neath a broad awning on the 
upper porch of a country house. 
The distant hills were lush 
green. The border that edged 
the lawn below the porch was 
colorful with iris and peonies 
and clouds of forget-me-nots. 
We left her there and went 
away. Two hours later we 
came back. She threw down 
the issue with, “There! Eve 
read your darned magazine 
from cover to cover, including 
all the advertisements.” 
“And haven’t you read the 
advertisements before?” W'e 
asked. 
“Some, but not all. In winter 
I rarely have the leisure to 
read an issue through from 
cover to cover. I dip and 
pick and choose, but in sum¬ 
mer—” 
“Enough!” we cried, and 
rushed off to write this answer 
to those'who think that people 
don’t read magazines in sum¬ 
mer. 
Why shouldn’t they read 
them in summer ? There is 
just as much time, in fact, 
more time, because the wise 
ones take their work lightly in 
Contents for Jtily, 1923. 
Cover Design by Bradley Walker Tomlin 
The House & Garden Bulletin Board . 35 
Halls in the Small House . 36 
Heathcote Woolsey, Architect 
Progressive Building . 37 
Alwyn T. Coveil 
A Courtyard and Garden ... 40 
John Irwin Bright, Architect 
Cottage Gardens . 42 
Francis Brett Young 
The Technique of the Primitive . 43 
How to Know Real Waterford . 44 
A. T. Wolfe 
The Circular Garden . 46 
Charles Le Sure, Landscape Architect 
Back to the Log Cabin . 47 
Darragh Aldrich 
A Planting of Informal Formality' . 50 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang 
W.ALL Papers for Bedrooms . 52 
Lucy D. Taylor 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors . 53 
A Garden Under a Hill. 56 
Minga Pope Duryea 
Pictures in Iron. 58 
A. Estelle Paddock 
Wall Textures Inside the House . 60 
Matlack Price 
The Marvels of Mid-Summer Planting . 62 
Elsa Rehmann 
Seven Pages of Good Small Houses . 63 
The Canned Garden . 70 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Building in Conveniences . 72 
Verna Cook Salomonsky 
Sp.anish Door Knockers . 73 
Alice Manning Williams 
Summer Novelties from the Shops . 74 
The Gardener’s Calendar . 76 
The Furniture of Queen Anne . 78 
Mr. & Mrs. G. Glen Gould 
the relaxful days of summer. 
For years now we have tried 
to make our summer issues 
sparkle and snap with interest. 
xAnd have they brought results? 
They have. Summer shows 
no slackening in the problems 
that confront the Information 
Service, ^nd that is logical, 
because problems arise, things 
must be purchased and life 
must go on in the house and 
the garden just as much in 
summer as they do in winter. 
This next issue, for example. 
Quite a lively number it will be 
What to expect in it you will 
find noted on the Bulletin Board 
on page 35 . We have a hope 
that over a hundred thousand 
men and women will stretch 
out comfortably on shaded 
porches, and read it from cover 
to cover, including the adver¬ 
tisements. Our only fear is 
lest the advertising pages prove 
more tempting than the edi¬ 
torial. In these days of superb 
advertising copy, the editor has 
to keep constantly on the jump 
to maintain his place; in fact, 
there are times when we feel 
tempted to agree with Mr. 
Kipling, who once said that 
the advertising pages of Ameri¬ 
can magazines furnished better 
reading than the editorial pages. 
However, you can claim the 
hammock on July 2 Sth, when 
this August issue reaches you. 
Volume XLIV, No. One 
Subscribers are notified that no change of address 
can be effected in less than one month 
Copyright, 1923 , by The Conde Nast Publications, Inc. 
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