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House b° Garden 
For every person who 
has outgrown Santa Claus 
TTERE is that rare thing—a truly different gift! It is the 
-I- A Nightrack. It is so new that you can give it without a 
fear of duplicating. It is so useful that you cannot afford to 
leave it off your list of “sensihles.” 
The Nightrack is a combination of clolhes-closet and valet, 
with advantages that neither of those possesses. It keeps 
clothes out in the open, where a free circulation of air sweetly 
drives away body-heat; and it is a servant that never “gives 
notice.” It keeps shoes in shape; wards off wrinkles from 
coats, skirts and trousers; provides a place for all the day’s 
clothing; keeps bedrooms tidy and adds life to everything you 
wear. 
The Nightrack is $10. It comes in 15 different finishes— 
from old ivory to richest mahogany. If your leading furniture 
dealer or gift shop cannot supply you we will ship a Nightrack 
direct to any address, with your card enclosed. (Express 
extra, west of the Mississippi River.) 
Trade-mark—Pat. Mar. 14, 1922 
THE DOG /« t/ie CHRISTMAS STOCKING 
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lean meat and a good heavy bone to 
gnaw on at least once a week. .Vvoid 
poultry bones and potatoes in any form. 
In general, the food that is good for you 
will be good for your dog. 
Between the ages of two and five 
months, four meals a day will be right. 
From five to eleven months, three meals; 
after eleven months, a morning and 
evening feed will suffice. In every case, 
give only as much as the dog will eat up 
clean. .\nd see that a saucer of cool, fresh 
water is accessible to him at all times. 
If he is fed and e.xercised properly, a 
normally healthy dog around the house 
will have little or no sickness. Remember, 
though, that practically everj" puppy is 
subject to intestinal worms, and treat 
him with standard dog vermifuge at 
intervals of two or three months until he 
is a year old, after which time he will be 
virtually immune. The process of elimin¬ 
ating worms is simple and safe. 
To sum up the whole matter of indi¬ 
vidual dog keeping and care: remember 
that exercise, fresh air and wholesome food 
sanely provided are as necessary to ca¬ 
nine well-being as to a child’s. There is no 
mystery aboutkeepinga dog ingood health 
—it’s merely a case of using your head. 
■om page 122) 
So much for the practical side of the 
dog in the Christmas stocking. As for 
the other, the pleasure-giving phase of 
the subject—well, that is something that 
cannot be put adequately into words. 
Only this: 
If you are so unfortunate as never to 
have owned a good dog, or if some one of 
your friends is in a like position, let the 
condition end on this December Twenty- 
fifth. The household into which a dog 
comes on Christmas morning is assured 
of a jollity and all-around pleasure that 
no other gift can bring. 
Your personal questions on matters per¬ 
taining to dog selection, purchasing and 
care unll be gladly answered by the Readers’ 
Service of The Dog Mart, House isr Garden, 
ig West 44t i Street, New York City. In 
writing, please be as explicit as possible. 
The Dog Mart does not itself undertake to 
purchase dogs, but will be glad to forward 
the addresses of reliable kennels which 
specialize in particular breeds. 
The accessories which illustrate the pre¬ 
ceding article may be ordered through the 
Shopping Service of House dr Garden. For 
rules governing the placing of such orders, 
please see page 76. 
ON HOUSE Sf GARDEN’S BOOK SHELF 
T he Child at Home. By Cynthia 
Asquith. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 
No book of even 5000 pages could 
adequately compass the chart of the child 
at home! And wisely enough Lady 
.•\squith more than once infers that her 
charming book of 271 pages has not even 
attempted the whole subject, but has 
simply sketched some things which have 
come to her mind and heart from experi¬ 
ence. 
Therefore the book is highly stimulat¬ 
ing. It is full of ideas which will be so 
infectious that the wise thinking parent 
or guardian will look further to fill in 
that which here has been so delightfully 
and often humorously merely suggested. 
Her chapter headings themselves are 
provocative: Choosing a Nurse, My Own 
Garden, Reading Aloud, Visitors, .At 
Table, Condemned to Town, etc. In the 
chapter about the child and his own little 
garden: . . . “he should be influenced to 
see a trust as well as a toy, and no doubt 
he will be apt enough to realize the 
solemn glory and privilege of being thus 
made responsible for the smallest portion 
of Mother Earth. There can be no better 
way of teaching him cause and effect, no 
prettier school of experience.” 
In the chapter on choosing a nurse: 
“ If you are able to afford a good nurse my 
advice is by all means avail yourself of 
the best you can find. Natural enough 
the wish to earn your own child’s love by 
embracing all the toil. But remember that 
the proper care of the baby is an exacting 
task that demands a complete dedication. 
Take a birdseye view of your career as a 
mother. Unless you are an extremely 
exceptional woman, will you not, by 
refusing to delegate duties an e.xpert can 
do better, be handicapping, if not dis¬ 
qualifying, yourself for the important 
work of later phases?” 
She says of shyness before the occa¬ 
sional visitor: “It must never be taken as 
a natural disability. Its conquest is 
merely a necessary form of self-control.” 
She says somewhere else too that self- 
control isn’t inhibiting things, it is the 
sensible practice of things (our own 
words). Lady -Asquith has much to say 
of children’s fears and hopes, and her 
preface wherein she wills the great great 
out-doors and the animals to children is 
really very lovely. 
Punctuated, too, with bits of verse, 
with flashes of quiet humor, the book is 
a thoroughly delightful one and one that 
will make a gift of value to anyone to 
whom children mean a problem of love as 
well as an endurance test. 
Ethel R. Peyser 
T he Primulas of Europe. By John 
MacWatt, AI.B. Charles Scribner’s 
Sons. 
In his “Cyclopedia of American 
Horticulture”, somewhat more than 
twenty years ago. Professor Bailey wrote 
of the primulas as “among the finest of 
all hard}^ plants”. He added “The rela¬ 
tively little attention given to Alpine 
gardens in this country is the reason for 
the neglect of these charming spring¬ 
flowering plants.” Now, in view of the 
rapidly increasing popularity of rock 
gardens, there ought to be given a hearty 
welcome to this eminently well composed 
volume that can serve as a supplement to 
the article which Professor Bailey took 
evident pains to have thorough and com¬ 
plete for his readers. There are many 
European species that can not be grown 
in the upper tier of the States, “owing 
to the cold winters and dry, hot summers 
with which we have to contend.” But 
the shelter afforded by certain spots in 
rock gardens, as they are now con¬ 
structed, makes it possible to grow many 
rare kinds that before were not cultivated 
on this side of the Atlantic and success 
under glass with many other kinds is now 
more assured since there is available new 
help in the form of this new English work. 
It rests throughout upon an extra¬ 
ordinary amount of first-hand experience, 
which is recorded succinctly and yet with 
sufficient detail. At the same time everx' 
page gives evidence of wide and careful 
reading of previous authorities and of 
judicious use of them. That the author 
may be trusted at every point is indicated 
by the fact that a rigid examination has 
detected not the slightest misprint. This 
is all the more remarkable in consideration 
of the many references, made in the exten¬ 
sive bibliographies and synonymies. The 
varieties also, each with precise record of 
its origin, seem to be numberless. Ac¬ 
quaintance with many is fostered by the 
eight colored plates and the forty-one 
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