December, i 9 2 j 
House & Garden 
■ 41 
The house behind this hooded door¬ 
way will he one of the many to he 
shown in January 
T he passing of December will find 
us full upon the season of good 
resolutions. It will be observed in 
various ways. The pretender, while 
secretly resolving, will seem to ignore 
this sentimental opportunity. The 
tattered conscience, as some one in 
pain might welcome the hour for the 
soothing opiate, will look eagerly 
towards this annual chance for begin¬ 
ning afresh. Everyone, according to 
his custom and desire, will make 
resolutions. 
Resolutions to turn over new leaves, 
to begin doing this or stop doing that, 
are no doubt worthy; but there is 
another k nd in which we are espe¬ 
cially interested. To build that house, 
to make that garden, are what we 
would call splendid resolutions; though 
even if the house be built and the 
garden made there still remains a 
multitude of possible resolutions 
about which we could become ex¬ 
tremely enthusiastic. For we have a 
theory that houses and gardens were 
never meant to stay set; but like 
human personalities were meant to 
live along and change from time to 
time, to find new points of view, to 
like new colors, to want new com¬ 
forts. 
If that be true then it is going to be 
necessary for all of you who are in¬ 
terested in your houses and gardens 
to do some resolving in order to keep 
this cycle of change and improvement 
in motion. It makes little difference 
whether you are concerned with whole 
houses and gardens or simpl}" with a 
1 ttle furniture and a few flowers. 
The point is that a very fine and sensi¬ 
tive relationship exists between you 
and these things to which you must 
respond. If you have been shirking 
that responsibility, why don’t you re¬ 
solve to do better by your surround¬ 
ings? Also, it is more fun to furnish 
and refurnish, to build and rebuild, to 
plant and replant, than it could pos¬ 
sibly be to eat less candy or to give 
up smoking. 
Contents for 
DECEMBER, 1923 
Cover Design—By Joseph B. Platt 
The House Garden Bidletin Board . 43 
A Hallway from the Past—By Frank Newman, Architect . 44 
The Domestic Chapel—By Harold Donaldson Eherlein . 45 
“Apple Trees”, A House at Locust Valley, L. I.—By Goodwin, 
Bullard Woolsey, Architects . 48 
Our Gastronomic Highways . 50 
To Remind You of Jidy .51 
The Decoration of Halls and Vestibules—By Grace Fakes . 52 
Designing an Informal Planting—By Elizabeth Leonard Strang . . 54 
A Pool-Paneled Garden—By Prentice Sanger, Landscape Architect 55 
Within the Crystal Garden—By Robert S. Lemmon . p8 
Is There Art In Artificial Plants?—By Ralph Paltison .jp 
The Furniture of Thomas Sheraton—By Mr. and Mrs. G. Glen Gould 60 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors . 61 
Concealing the Unsightly Telephone . 6p 
The Wherefore of Quoins—By Costen Fitz-Gibboh . 66 
Facts About Carpets and Rugs—By E. A. de Quintal . 68 
Laying It on the Kitchen Table—By Ethel R. Peyser . 6g 
The Rejuvenation of a Brownstone House—By Mary McBurney . . 70 
Three Pages of Houses—By Mellor, Meigs df Howe . 71 
All Sorts and Conditions of Bokharas—By A. T. Wolfe . 74 
Eating the Christmas Tree . 76 
How to Purchase House Garden's Christmas Gifts . 76 
Mali Jong and Its Accessories . 77 
Gifts for the Living Room . 78 
For the Dining Room .yp 
To Put in a Man's Room . 80 
To Give a Woman . 81 
Toys for a Little Girl . 82 
To Please a Boy . 8j 
The Gardener's Calendar . 84 
To pin yourself down to some defi¬ 
nite resolutions concerning your house 
or garden, and to know just how to go 
about carrying out your resolutions 
when you have planned them, you 
will want suggestions and advice. 
That is the part you can depend upon 
House & Garden to play. If your 
resolutions are aimed towards the 
building of a house or the treatment 
of an interior, or if they have to do 
with the designing of a garden or the 
planting of a perennial border, or if 
they are concerned with any of the 
details of these things, you will find 
substantial and inviting food for 
thought in every number of House 
& Garden. 
Each issue is as complete a collec¬ 
tion of inspiration and information 
about houses and gardens as can be 
got into the space at our disposal. 
Though the January House & 
Garden, for instance, will be the 
Building Number, and matters of 
architectural style and construction 
will be emphasized, you will find that 
decoration, furniture, equipment and 
the garden are sacrificed not at all. 
We are much too fond of all our sub¬ 
jects to let any one of them get the 
better of another. 
We comb the country for the best 
houses and gardens that are being 
made and for the latest ideas for 
their treatment and equipment. \A’e 
gather in the most interesting of the 
new anfl old gardens and houses from 
England and the Continent, as well 
as the finest old examples here. From 
these we lay before you once a month 
the material for your inspirations. 
Just about now these inspirations are 
going to work themselves into your 
New Year resolutions. 
But inciting resolutions is only part 
of our purpose. If we didn’t go on 
from there at every opportunit}? and 
tell you how to realize yours, we 
would be playing the game only half¬ 
way. And that, for twenty-two New 
Years, we have resolved never to do. 
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