August, 1921 
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House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
R. S. LEMMON, Managing Editor 
SEPTEMBER BRINGS FALL 
FURNISHING 
I T’S an axiom that if you stop growing, you’re 
dead. If you stop changing, re-making, im¬ 
proving the house, your interest in it dies. 
You will be finished long before your house and 
your garden will. The steady grind of new cur¬ 
tains and rugs, new chairs, new borders, new lawns 
—it goes on with the inexorable, steady drive of 
Time. We can no more avoid it than we can avoid 
tomorrow. That is life, because each tomorrow is 
constantly offering us something new and fresh 
and delightful that makes life fuller. That also is 
the lure of each forthcoming issue of House & 
Garden ; each number offers an abundance of in¬ 
spirations and suggestions for the better house and 
the more lovely garden. Each turn of the pages 
gives a new idea. 
September comes with fall furnishing suggestions 
and is big with promise. Here are pages on the 
use of the screen in decoration, yonder displays of 
new wall and upholstery fabrics and small tables 
and accessories for the fireplace. The furnishing of 
the library is illustrated with many delightful photo¬ 
graphs and the article on French trick furniture is 
as intriguing as a novel. 
French furniture is among 
the topics in the September 
number 
Of gardens—for this magazine looks upon the 
garden as an all-year diversion—you will see dis¬ 
played a remarkable English topiary garden only 
thirty years old; a garden in Connecticut built on 
three levels and plants for a shaded spot. For the 
specialist—and what gardener is not a specialist in 
some favorite flower?—are two pages on making 
an iris garden, and one on a much-neglected flower 
that British nurserymen have improved, the Michael¬ 
mas Daisy. To make the garden measure full you 
find a contribution on what Spanish gardens have 
given us and on the distillation of flower waters 
and the making of flower potpourri. 
The building of the house is not neglected in this 
issue. The remodeled Colonial house by Prentice 
Sanger and the two beautiful properties developed 
in California from designs by Myron Hunt give a 
wide range of recent architectural work. Linking 
the past to the present are houses of old Georgia 
and a charming article about them. For the begin¬ 
ning builder the a-b-c contribution on roofs is an 
essential. The space is almost gone—and yet only 
a handful of the September ideas have been men¬ 
tioned. But they will come with the magazine. 
Contents for August, 1921 . Volume XL, No. Two 
Cover Design by Margaret Harper 
The Garden Front. 
Aymar Embury, II, Architect 
Furniture oe Our Forefathers. 
Mary Fanton Roberts 
Two Country Houses. 
Aymar Embury, II, Architect 
The Decline and Fall of Sunday Dinner. 
The Restfulness of Formality. 
The Story of Old Sheffield Plate. 
A. T. Wolfe 
Building a House That Eventually Can Grow Up 
Arthur W. Coote, Architect 
The Revival of Marbling. 
Aldous Huxley 
Painted Chinese Mirrors.•. 
Weymer Mills 
French Interiors. 
How to Make Colorful Rooms. 
Leslie W. Devereux 
New Bowls for Flowers or Fruit. 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 
Modern Pansies and Their Culture. 
Henry T. Finch 
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Occasional Chairs. 
Playing Grounds for Country Places. 
Richard H. Pratt, II 
The Forebears of Some Garden Flowers. 
R. W. Shufeldt 
The Varnish Finish for Wood. 
Jason E. Durst 
Building the Smokeless Fireplace. 
Harry F. C. Mennecke 
News of Domestic Aids. 
Peter Dunham 
Lighting Fixtures in the Home. 
Foot-Scrapers From Colonial Houses. 
Equipping the Bride’s Kitchen. 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Radiator Covers ... 
Raymond Hood, Architect 
The Septic Tank System For Sewage. 
B. Francis Dashiell 
Luxury Becomes a Necessity in the Modern Bathroom.... 
Walker & Gillette, Architects 
A Room For Kitchen Stores. 
Verna Cook Salomonsky 
A Group of Six Small Houses. 
The Well-Equipped Bathroom. 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 
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