July, 1920 
House & Garden 
\M 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
R. S. LEMMON, Managing Editor 
AUGUST AND HOUSEHOLD EQUIPMENT 
N ECESSITY was never so bountiful a 
mother of invention as today, when 
housewives are faced with a shortage of 
servants and an abundance of high prices. This 
burden of household management is being light¬ 
ened by all manner of time and labor-saving 
devices that, used intelligently, make work a 
pleasure and the home as scientifically managed 
as any modern business. 
The Household Equipment Number in August 
will attempt to present as many of these devices 
and refinements as the pages will hold. Not 
everything on the market will be there, of course, 
but a vast and fascinating array of household 
helps will be shown, explained and demonstrated. 
The gamut includes a thorough study of elec¬ 
tricity in the kitchen, of kitchen and laundry 
ventilation, garbage incinerators, plans for the 
arrangement of the kitchen, heating by gas and— 
a subject not hitherto touched on, we believe—- 
the subject of brooms and brushes. 
These strictly utilitarian pages are lightened by 
interesting houses, interiors, gardens and sugges¬ 
tions from the shops. There is the home of a 
House & Garden reader who, some years back, 
was attracted by the photograph of a Cotswold 
cottage he saw in the magazine. He had his 
Contents for July, 1920. 
Cover Design by W. George Brandt 
The Window and Its View. 16 
Decorating the Small House. 17 
Mary Worthington 
Do It Yourself 1. 22 
A Type of American Native Art. 23 
The Collector Seeks Keys... 24 
Gardner Teall 
Five Good Small Houses . 27 
Suggestions for Dressing Rooms. 32 
Collecting Russian Candlesticks. 33 
M. Holden 
Water in the Garden View. 36 
Marian C. Coffin, Landscape Architect 
Mirrors as Decorations. 38 
American architect collaborate with the English 
architect, and Easton, Pa., is richer by a very 
interesting copy of Cotswold. Then there is the 
little Colonial house set in a hollow—a little house 
for a little family. An English design in brick 
makes the third house in this issue. 
Of decorations, there is the chatty article on 
how to use gingham in rooms, the interior of a 
New England home, the Little Portfolio and some 
unusual designs for pillows. The page on em¬ 
broidering household linen will delight the eye, 
and so will the page on pillows. 
But there are still more pages in the magazine! 
Gardner Teall, who knows all about collecting 
everything collectable, writes on mediaeval medals. 
In the old days, ages before photography, one 
had his portrait struck on a medal. Collectors 
scour the Continent for these today. The motor 
vacationist will find some rare suggestions in 
Jack Rose’s drawings of old inns. 
These are some of the allurements in this Au¬ 
gust issue. It is our first number devoted to 
Household Equipment. There will be a demand 
on the newsstands for it. It might be advisable 
—seeing that there is a paper shortage and a 
consequent shortage of magazines—to order your 
copy now. 
Volume XXXVIII, No. One 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 39 
That Devastated Suburban Lot. 42 
Marion Murdock 
The Home of Anthony Hope. 44 
L. Stanley Crosbie, Architect 
Where to Use Yellow. 46 
Ethel Davis Seal 
The Chow-Chow From China. 48 
Robert S. Lemmon 
Flower Arrangements . 49 
Taking the Kitchen Along. SO 
Ethel R. Peyser 
The Unfinished Rooms. 52 
Smart Luggage for Summer Travel. 53 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 54 
A page of English doorways will be 
found among the fascinating topics 
in the August number. This is one 
of many designs 
Copyright, 1920, by Condo Mast & Co., Inc. 
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