House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON; WRIGHT, Editor 
SEEN IN THE CRYSTAL OF 1920 
T here is an axiom among publishers to 
the effect that no magazine can afford 
to stand still; it must go either forward 
or back. In the one direction lies success; in 
the other—^well, a good many periodicals go 
out of existence every year. Few of the latter 
are really missed, because the very fact of their 
failure argues that they did not fill the public’s 
wants. In publishing, as in other businesses, 
it is a case of the survival of the most fit. 
If it would not be violating the vast secrecy 
of our Circulation and Business departments, 
we should like to quote a few figures which 
prove how fast and far House & Garden is 
traveling along the forward road. But, you 
see, no Sphinx was ever more noncommittal 
than is the financial manager of a big publish¬ 
ing house, so we’ll have to rest content with 
telling you something of what we, the Editors, 
see as we look ahead—gaze into the office crys¬ 
tal of 1920, as it were. 
First, we see a magazine of broader scope, 
of many more pages, of wider appeal to its 
readers. It is a magazine which clings rigidly 
to its established field—that of the house, in¬ 
View of an interesting Italian stucco 
house that appears in the February 
House Building Number 
side and out, and the surrounding grounds— 
but growing steadily in usefulness. The prac¬ 
tical phases of making a livable home are 
strongly emphasized, without in any degree re¬ 
ducing the inspirational element or lowering 
the standard. New angles on the manifold 
problems of home-making are considered, new 
departments created, new solutions presented. 
And as we look we see in the glass many 
thousand more homes where House & Garden 
is read, an unfailing inspiration for us to do 
our utmost in making for them the sort of 
magazine they want. After all, it is for his 
readers that the editor works; and if he fails 
to understand them, to be in sympathy with 
them, he had better close his desk and seek an¬ 
other job. 
We have gazed into this office crystal of ours 
in other years, and we have found that its 
promises come true. You who read this we 
have seen there, and a hundred thousand others 
with ideals of what their homes should be. 
And today, in the depths of the glass, there is 
clearly imaged a bigger and better House & 
Garden— and we are going to see that you get it! 
Contents for January, 1920 . 
Cover Design by H. George Brandt 
Things You Remember a House By. 18 
Jidius Gregory, Architect 
Tremendous Trifles. 19 
Nancy Ashton 
The Seattle Home of C. D. Stimpson, Esq. 22 
Kirtland Cutter, Architect 
The Housewife as Manager. 24 
To A Crayon Enlargement of My Great-Great Grandfather 24 
George S. Chappell 
Modernized Mission. 2S 
Kirtland Cutter, Architect 
Beginning With Bohemian Glass. 26 
Gardner Teall 
The High Cost of Rugging. 28 
Agnes Foster Wright 
Stone and the G.arden Path. 30 
Robert Stell 
Period Styles in Picture Frames. 32 
H. D. Eberlein and Abbot McClure 
First to Bloom. 34 
Marion Coffin, Landscape Architect 
How TO Drape a Dressing Table. 35 
When to Use Curtains .and Sh.ades. 36 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
Volume XXXVII, No. One 
A House for a Bride. 38 
Mrs. Emniott Buell, Decorator 
The Place for Tapestries. 40 
Peyton Boswell 
The Paint Finish of W.alls. 42 
James E. Durham 
From a Car Window. 42 
Margaret Widdemer 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 43 
Glorified Garrets. 46 
Ethel Davis Seal 
Color Transition Between Rooms. 48 
Alice F. and Bettina Jackson 
How Do You Enter Your Garden?. 49 
An Orchard That Is a Garden Too. SO 
Creating a Cheery Room With Paneling. 52 
Mary H. Northend 
Weather Vanes . 54 
A Char.acteristic American Dog. 55 
Margaret McElroy 
Making a Clean Sweep. 56 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Building With Pise de Terre. 58 
Refrigeration at Home. 59 
Grace T. Hadley 
The Gardener’s C.alendar. 60 
Copyright, 1919, oy Conde Nast & Co., Inc. 
Title House & Garden registered in U. S. Patent Office 
PUBLISHEH MONTHLY BY CONDE NAST Sc CO., INC.. 19 WEST FOBTY'-FOUETH STREET, NEW YORK. CONDE NAST, PRESIDENT; 
W. E. BECKERLB. TREASURER. EUROPEAN OFFICES: ROLLS HOUSE. BREAMS BLDG., LONDON, E. C.: PHILIPPE ORTIZ. 2 RUE 
EDWARD VII, PARIS. SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 A YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES, COLONIES AND MEXICO: $3.50 IN CANADA: $4.00 IN 
FOREIGN COUNTRIES. SINGLE COPIES, 35 CENTS. ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER AT THE POST OFFICE AT NEW YORK CITY 
