House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
MAY—AND SUMMER FURNISHINGS 
T he New York streets are gray with a 
week-old snow. Snow barricades range 
down the curbs. Upstate trains are not 
running, for a blizzard of phenomenal propor¬ 
tions has swept across that section. Milk gets 
scarce in the metropolis. Only those who have 
to, go out. 
And yet we are working on the May House 
& Garden—thinking of summer furnishings and 
the late spring growth and awnings and ice 
cream freezers! The engravers are working 
over pictures of roses used for shrubbery and 
wicker and willow and reed. By the time you 
read this, before the frost is out of the ground, 
we will be mopping our brows editorially in 
June and July. 
This is something readers do not often take 
into consideration. And it is also one of the 
mysteries of editing a magazine—to those who 
do not edit. How, they ask, can an editor feel 
the genuine Christmas spirit while he is swel¬ 
tering in August heat? How can he sit shiver¬ 
ing in his office and write glowingly of mid¬ 
summer flowers and the cool shadows that fall 
across the mown lawn on late July afternoons? 
There is an old-world touch in the 
May issue, an old English house re¬ 
stored, of which this is a glimpse 
There is no more mystery about this than 
there is about a housewife canning peaches in 
August against the December feasts. Looking 
ahead is only a habit—and the editor practices 
that habit every day of the year. 
Yet there is something more to it than that. 
Just as the housewife knows what her family 
likes and needs and will relish in the months 
to come, so does the editor know what his 
family of readers will enjoy six months from 
now. The only difference is that, whereas the 
housewife may have only four or six palates to 
tickle, the editor has to think of appealing to 
the appetites and interests and requirements of 
a hundred thousand or more people living in 
all sorts of houses, having all sorts of work and 
with all sorts of ideas about how best to live life. 
The narrower the interests of the magazine, 
the fewer people there are in the editorial fam¬ 
ily. A scientific magazine devoted solely to 
mushrooms, for example, would appeal to only 
a few people. But a magazine devoted to the 
home appeals to practically everyone, because 
everyone has a home and practically everyone 
wants to make that home beautiful. 
Contents for April, 1920. 
Cover Design by H. George Brandt 
An Adam Room in America. 30 
Elsie de Wolfe, Decorator 
American Decoration .• •. 31 
Victoria Williamson 
“A Little Place in the Country”. 36 
Distance . 36 
Harold Cook 
A Rock Garden Indoors. 37 
Walker & Gillette, Architects 
The Ancestor of the Chair. 38 
Gardner Teall 
A New England Design in Brick. 40 
Charles Erederick Townsend, Architect 
Do You Neglect the Ceiling?. 42 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
A Small Colonial Country House 
Morris & Erskine, Architects 
A Library to Live In. 
Draped Windows . 
The Art of Breakf.asting Well. ... 
Nancy Ashton 
Volume XXXVII, No. Four 
Tables and Chairs of 18th Century France - • . SO 
H. D. Eberlein & Abbot McClure 
Cupboards for the Corner. 52 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. S3 
Ancient Chinese Art for Moderns. S6 
Peyton Boswell 
Steps in the Garden. S7 
Marian C. Coffin, Landscape Architect 
Romantic Gardening . S8 
Hanna Tachau 
“Common Sense Applied to Spending”. 60 
L. K. C. Olds 
Hang Pots and Pans Where You Can Reach Them. 61 
The Equipment Required for Preserving and Canning. 62 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Inside the Children’s Room. 64 
M. H. Northend 
A Splendid Dog From Spain . 6S 
R. S. Lemmon 
A Patio Garden in Texas .. 66 
Garden Pests as They Appear . 67 
The Gardener’s C.alendar . 68 
Copyright, 1920, by Condc Nast S' Co., Inc. 
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