February, 1920 
17 
House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT. Editor 
DEALING IN FUTURES 
I T is a prerogative of magazine-making—a 
necessity, even—to deal in futures. We 
have to do it. Working today and thinking 
months ahead come to be as natural to an editor 
as answering his office telephone or smoking his 
deliberative pipe over a doubtful piece of 
“copy.” From the time the office wheels begin 
to turn in the actual production of an issue of 
HOUSE & GARDEN until the completed maga¬ 
zine reaches you is eight full weeks. We have 
two issues actively growing under our hands at 
all times, and three more in a formative state. 
We have to keep them all in mind. 
And it is rather fun. In the cold drabness of 
January, you see, we are busy selecting photo¬ 
graphs of springtime gardens and gay warm- 
weather furnishings for our May issue; on swel¬ 
tering August days we edit articles about winter 
pruning of fruit trees and the relative merits of 
steam, hot water and hot air for house heating 
purposes. We feel sometimes as though we had 
dual personalities; one which attends to the 
tasks of day by day, and the other more ab¬ 
stract, less material, a dweller in the realm of 
the future. 
Now, all this may sound dreamy, unprac¬ 
A glimpse of one of the gardens in the 
March issue 
tical and far removed from the world of busi¬ 
ness. But isn’t its underlying principle the same 
as the one which actuates you to turn these 
pages? We suggest the things which will make 
for more livable homes; you receive and con¬ 
sider them, plan to adapt them to your particu¬ 
lar circumstances. We are both dealing in fu¬ 
tures. 
The whole spirit of a magazine such as this 
is one of looking forward. You read a fiction 
story because you want to be entertained, di¬ 
verted here in the present; but you read an 
article, on interior decorating or building or gar¬ 
dening because it bears upon something which 
you hope to possess tomorrow, or next month, 
or just “sometime.” Both kinds of reading are 
stimulating and worth while, both have their 
places in the scheme of things. Which of them 
is of the greater merit only the individual can 
decide. 
For ourselves, we like this planning and work¬ 
ing ahead. It is a pleasant, imaginative sort of 
way to do, even though it does lead us to forget 
sometimes that January is not June and that 
the midwinter of actuality is not the springtime 
of an editor’s fancy. 
Contents for February, 1920. Volume XXXVII, No. Two 
Cover Design by Charles Livingston Bull 
18 
The Country House and Its Site. 
H. T. Lindeberg, Architect 
Individuality in Country Homes. 19 
Matlack Price 
What Is a Household Policy?. 24 
' L. K. C. Olds 
Mes Amours . 24 
Edna Goit Brintnall 
When Details Have Merit. 25 
H. T. Lindeberg, Architect 
Miniatures of Yesterday for Collectors of Today. 26 
Gardner Teall 
Farm Buildings of Charles M. Schwab, Esq., Loretto, Pa. 28 
Murphy & Dana, Architects 
Garden Cities of the South. 30 
George W. Sutton, Jr. 
Flowers for the Garden Gate. 32 
Marion Coffin, Landscape Architect 
The Commuter Builds a Rest House. 33 
G. Campbell 
An Italian House for the Country. 34 
Randolph H. Almiroty, Architect 
Furnishing With Old Cottage Pieces. 36 
Walter A. Dyer 
The Doorstep Makes the House. 38 
Jack Manley Rose 
Ground Covers for the North. 40 
Hugh Smith 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors... .^. 41 
Reviving the Bell Pull... 44 
Mary H. Northend 
A Bowered Garden in New England. 45 
How to Know the Moldings.,. 46 
Matlack Price 
A Formal Garden on a City Lot. 47 
M. L. Fuller 
A Norman-English Farmhouse.. 48 
Julius Gregory, Architect 
How Paneling Is Designed. 50 
Randolph W. Sexton 
A Low Dog From the Highlands. 51 
Robert S. Lemmon 
Equipping the Kitchen. 52 
Dorothy Ethel Walsh 
When the Pot Hangs High. 53 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Furnishing the Breakfast Porch. 54 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 56 
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