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October, 1919 
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Do you make the shops all come to you? 
“... I don’t suppose I’d ever have learned it if I’d 
lived in a middle-sized place. But when you’re the wife 
of an engineer on construction, and you’re building a 
dam on the other edge of nowhere, and you can’t live in 
a tree, or let your husband make you concrete curtains 
or a steel-reinforced tea service — well, you’ve just got to 
have the shops all come to you. And House & Garden 
is the only way. . . . Personally, I’ve made up my 
mind that no matter where we move. I’ll still call on you, 
for even if I lived in New York itself, I’d never have the 
inexhaustible patience that you’ve displayed on all my 
commissions from chairs to china. As for what my hus¬ 
band says -” 
We modestly blue pencil the rest and credit the lady’s ancestors to the 
neighborhood of Blarney Castle. But—we did work hard over that 
little bungalow! 
You see, it’s House & Garden’s business to know the shops of New 
York—the big places and the little tucked-away on-sidestreet shops 
where clever men and women with small capital make those interest¬ 
ing originations that mean so much to the modern house. 
W HERE you would have to search hours— 
days, perhaps—even if you were in New 
York, the House & Garden Shoppers can go 
unerringly to the spot where they specialize 
on just the thing you want. 
TT isn’t necessary for you to have seen it in 
the pages of the magazine. All you have to 
do is to write and say, “I want a so-and-so, of 
such-and-such a colour, size, price. I am en¬ 
closing an approximate amount to cover the 
purchase.” 
r 1 1 HEN—possess your soul in patience. As 
soon as the mails will allow, you’ll get your 
parcel. House & Garden charges no commis¬ 
sion for bringing the shops to you. Try it— 
and see! 
HOUSE & GARDEN 
Shopping Service 
19 West 44th Street, New York City 
Dear House & Garden Shopping Service: 
I’m marking the things on the coupon that I’m interested in at present, 
and am enclosing it in a letter giving you further particulars. I am 
also sending you an approximate amount to cover the cost of my pur¬ 
chases, it being my understanding that you charge nothing for your ser¬ 
vices, and return me any money left over. 
FOR THE HOUSE FOR THE GARDEN 
..Electrical appliances ..Bulbs for fall planting 
.. Cretonnes & chintzes • • Shrubs 
..Linens ..Statuary 
..China & glass ..Bird baths 
..Silverware ..Bird houses 
..Unusual lamps and lighting ..Fountains _ 
fixtures ■ • f orch furniture 
..Odd tables & chairs MISCELLANEOUS 
..Books ... 
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Street - - 
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