House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT. Editor 
R. S. LEMMON, Managing Editor 
NEXT MONTH, THE FURNITURE NUMBER 
S TRANGE, how short a time it seems since 
we were selecting pictures and editing “copy” 
about summer draperies, and porch furniture 
and other warm-weather topics. Winter seemed 
very far away, then, and here we are with the 
January House & Garden all arranged and start¬ 
ing on its journey through the varied stages 
which lie between our editorial typewriters and 
your subscribers’ hands. Yet that is ever the 
way with magazine making; issue succeeds issue 
so steadily that before we know it the year’s cycle 
is complete and a new one opens the first of its 
twelve stages just ahead. 
In this first issue of the new year we have 
concentrated on things inside the house, for with- 
out-doors snow and ice are likely to discourage 
all but necessary activities. A series of sketches 
showing different types of chair legs will prove 
an interesting and helpful aid in the matter of 
period identification at a glance. Odds and ends 
of decoration always appeal, so we have made a 
selection of them, too, to fit various occasions. 
Gardner Teall continues his series of collector’s 
monographs, and Ethel R. Peyser her articles on 
practical aids to modern housekeepers. Uphol¬ 
stery fabrics, the Little Portfolio of Good Inte¬ 
riors, things that our shoppers have found in the 
stores, the fitting up of a practical storage room— 
these are some of the other features which help 
to round out the story of the interior as told in 
this number. 
One of the two-page spreads of photographs 
to the publishing of which we have been looking 
forward for some time is being made up for the 
January number. It shows one of the early Long 
Island farmhouses, a delightful little place over 
two hundred years old, which has been restored 
without sacrificing a particle of its former atmo¬ 
sphere and charm. Then, too, there will be sev¬ 
eral pages of medium-sized Dutch Colonial houses 
by Dwight J. Baum, and another charming place 
designed by Frank J. Forster. 
Even though it is winter, we haven’t forgotten 
the gardener, of course. Mrs. Francis King con¬ 
tributes to this issue, and prominent among the 
other landscape and flower features is a practical 
exposition of the decorative and useful possibili¬ 
ties of the retaining wall. Altogether, a well- 
,4 corner of one of the Dutch Col- balanced number, a true earnest of what House 
onial houses in the January number & Garden will bring you in 1921. 
Contents for December, 1920. Volume XXXVIII, No, Six 
Cover Design by Harry C. Richardson 
The Floor of Inlaid Wood. 
Romantic Gifts of Other Days. 
Grace Norton Rose 
The Residence of F. J. O. Alsop, Esq. 
Chapman & Frazer, Architects 
As the Christmas Gift May See It. 
An Old Door in Albany. 
Embroidered Primers of the Past. 
Gardner Teall 
A Guest House and a Boulder Garden. 
IF. Maredydd Harrison, Landscape Architect 
Some American Wood Block Engravings. 
Peyton Boswell 
Nurseries That Fulfill Their Mission. 
The Studio Home of Rudulph Evans, Sculptor 
The Gazebo and the Garden Wall. 
H. D. Eberlein 
Wax Miniatures Are Here Again. 
Emily Burbank 
A Remodeled Mill in Massachusetts. 
Nina L. Duryea 
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Dwarf Fruits for the Small Place. 
Maud Robinson Toombs 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. .. 
Pargetry Inside the House. 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
A Bit of Normandy on the North Shore 
Mary H. Northend 
Outstripping the Gale. 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Ways of Wrapping Christmas Parcels.. 
Christmas Gift Suggestions. 
Useful Presents for the Dining Room.. 
Attention of Santa Claus. 
To Put Under the Stocking. 
Linens Make Welcome Gifts. 
Remembrances for the Boudoir. 
To Give to a Man. 
For Many Occasions. 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 
Subscribers are notified that no change of address can 
be effected in less than one month. 
Copyright, 1920, by Condc Nast & Co., Inc. 
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