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House & Garden 
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HOW TO ORDER 
THROUGH HOUSE 
H ouse & garden, as you win 
see on the following pages, has 
taken the one sure way of arranging 
that you do your Christmas shopping 
early. It has done it for you. That 
is, it has done all the difficult part, 
which means going about in shops 
and making selection; the only thing 
that you need to do is to decide what 
you want and follow the directions 
below. 
House & Garden is going to make 
every effort to purchase for you 
exactly the Italian mirror or the 
baby’s rattle or anything else that 
you may select from these pages as your 
choice. But it asks you to remember that 
stocks of goods are far below the normal today 
and that no manufacturer knows when his 
next strike is due. Therefore, in case the pre¬ 
ferred stock should be exhausted before 
IMPORTANT NOTICE 
/NRDER these gifts by number. The 
^ number immediately precedes the de¬ 
scription of the article in every case. Full 
instructions for ordering are given on this 
page, and to avoid misunderstandings 
and delay they s/ioidd be closely followed. 
Order your gifts at the earliest possible 
date. Christmas stocks are limited this 
season and every day that you put of 
your ordering lessens your chance of ob¬ 
taining what you want and of having it 
delivered on time. Those who order first will 
be served first. Every order will be num¬ 
bered and filled in the order of its receipt. 
GIFTS 
GARDE 
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your order arrives, House & Garden 
suggests that it will save time and 
correspondence if you will state a 
second choice or permit the Shopping 
Service to buy another gift as nearly 
as possible like the original selection. 
If House & Garden has pleased your 
taste in selecting the gifts shown in 
its pages, it will not disappoint you 
when it is left to its own discretion— 
and you might like the substitute 
even better. 
There is one infallible rule in Christ¬ 
mas shopping—do not put off till to¬ 
morrow what you can order today. 
The Shopping Service is ready, the shops are 
ready, and it won’t take more than an hour 
or two spent at your desk, at the most, to set 
them both to cooperating with you in making 
a Christmas that you and your family and 
your friends will always remember kindly. 
House & Garden will buy for 
you, without charge for its services, 
any article mentioned in its pages. 
When ordering anything that has 
appeared in House & Garden 
give the order number of the 
article, the date of the issue, the 
number of the page, and, where 
necessary, the size and color 
desired. 
How to order. Write to the 
Shopping Service, stating what 
you want (see model letter) and 
enclosing cheque, draft, or money 
order to pay for the desired articles, 
or postage stamps for articles 
costing less than $i. Be sure to 
mention desired sizes and colors, 
if a choice is given in the descrip¬ 
tion. If you send your personal 
cheque for an amount exceeding 
$50, it will greatly facilitate 
matters, if you will have it certified. 
There are no charge accounts 
in the Shopping Service. 
Second choice. Possible dis¬ 
appointment and delay may be 
avoided if your second choice is 
stated as indicated in the model 
letter. It is also advisable to give 
House & Garden the privilege of 
its discretion in purchasing an 
article similar to the first choice, 
when the first choice is not obtain- 
December 1, 1919. 
House & Garden Shopping Service 
19 West 44th Street, New York. 
Enclosed is my cheque* for seventy-four dollars and fifty cents, for 
which please send by parcel post the following articles to 
Mrs. Henry J. White, 
Old Gate Farm, 
Barre, Mass. 
No. 1024—Console, December House & Garden, page 55. $65. 
No. 1030—Pillow cover, December House & Garden, page 55. $9.50. 
My Second Choice** 
If, after making every effort to secure my first choice, House & Garden 
finds it impossible to do so, please purchase the following second choices: 
No. 1007—Mirror, December House & Garden, page 53. $67.75. 
No. 1017—Tea caddy, December House & Garden, page 54. $2.50. 
Very truly yours, 
Margaret White. 
* Or draft or money order. 
** Instead of giving second choices, it is often 
desirable to leave it to the discretion of the Shop¬ 
ping Service to purchase an article as nearly like 
the original selection as possible, in case that is 
not to be found. The first choice will always be 
purchased, except where special popularity has 
exhausted the stock in an article at an early date. 
able. The first choice will always 
be purchased unless the stock is ex¬ 
hausted by previous sales. 
Letters of inquiry should en¬ 
close a stamped self-addressed 
envelope for reply. House & Gar¬ 
den will do its utmost, but can not 
guarantee during the month before 
Christmas to answer all questions. 
Please write your letter and signa¬ 
ture very distinctly. 
No charge accounts. Articles 
purchased through the House & 
Garden Shopping Service can not 
be charged to your personal ac¬ 
count in the shop from which they 
are bought. Neither can articles be 
sent C. O. D. by that shop in any 
circumstances. 
Any money in excess of the 
cost of gifts will be returned 
promptly by the House & Garden 
Shopping Service. 
No articles on approval. 
House & Garden can not break the 
rule of the shops that no goods 
be sent on approval during the 
holiday season. 
No samples. During De¬ 
cember House & Garden can not 
send samples of materials. 
HOUSE & GARDEN SHOPPING SERVICE 
Nineteen West Forty-Fourth Street, New York 
