JCHANCH 
DECEMBER 
19 15 
CONTENTS 
Vol. XXVIII | 
No. Six m 
Cover—From a Painting by Ethel Franklin Betts Baines 
Frontispiece — Gates and Doors.• ••. 8 
Joyce Kilmer. Decorations by John Scott Williams 
The Sure Sharp Road. 9 
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews 
Decorations by Ada Williamson 
Among the New Small Bronzes Exhibited This Fall . 13 
Batik FIangings. 14 
C. Bertram Hartman 
The Residence of Mrs. Ernest Allis at Cherokee Park, Louis¬ 
ville, Ky . 16 
Lewis Colt Albro, architect 
Your Own Orchard. 18 
F. F. Rockwell 
The Entrance Planting at the Residence of William Seely, 
Esq., at Bridgeport, Conn. 20 
Murphy & Dana, architects 
Christmas Gifts for the Home. 21 
Stage Settings From a Decorator's Standpoint. 29 
B. Russell Herts 
The Decorative Value of Mirrors. 33 
Agnes Foster 
The Formal Garden That Was an Orchard. 34 
Elsa Rchmann 
Toy Dogs of Royalty. 36 
Williams Haynes 
English Engraved and Inscribed Glasses. 38 
Gardner Teall 
Counting the Cost of Farming — II. 40 
Flora Lewis Marble 
The Residence of Mrs. E. A. Stevens at Bernardsville, N. J.. . 42 
Lunch Counters for the Winter Birds. 44 
Robert S. Lemmon 
The House of Charles Bonynge, Esq., at South Orange, N. J.. 46 
Davis, McGrath & Kiessling, architects 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 48 
Conducted by F. F. Rockwell 
Decorations for the Billiard Room. 49 
Abbot McClure & H. D. Eberlein 
Editorial. 50 
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decorate, two questions invariably arise: 
How shall I do it? and How much will it 
cost? Thus, you want a certain kind of 
garden. You have so much land to put it on, 
and so much time and money to spend. With¬ 
out further information you may plant too 
much or too little or invest your time and 
money in the wrong direction. 
<J House & Garden is a home investor’s 
guide. It tells you how to build, to plant, to 
decorate, and it does more — it gives you the 
approximate costs. That is why more and 
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IN JANUARY 
•Ilf you are interested in good houses or 
. . . 
planning that house you eventually will build, 
you cannot afford to miss The Annual Build¬ 
ing Number. The array of houses shown 
there, the varying costs and types, the lists 
of authoritative authors will command your 
interest from the first page to the last. 
•I Ralph Adams Cram, interpreter of life in 
buildings, writes of The American Home — 
and when Cram speaks, you listen, for he can 
analyze the spirit behind things, the spirit 
you are trying to make in your home. A. 
Raymond Ellis, who has designed more than 
300 good houses in the last eight years, tells 
you how to figure out the cost of building 
according to localities — the sort of article 
you’ll clip for further reference. And 
W. B. Powell, a paint expert, does the same 
for painting. There are eight pages of houses 
and plans. There is a landscape gardening 
article with full directions, showing how to 
plan the grounds about your new house. J. J. 
Klaber contributes three pages of working 
drawings for built-in furniture of the sort 
any man can make. In addition, there are 
pages of building suggestions and articles 
which cover the whole subject of that house 
you are going to build. 
<1 This is a genuine Castle-in-Spain number. 
You have no less than thirty-five houses 
shown, each a good house architectuallv and 
good to live in. 
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