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House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
R. S. LEMMON, Managing Editor 
CHRISTMAS GIFTS NEXT 
I N the garden, tidal waves of cosmos are 
spilling over the wall. African marigolds 
puncture the green background of shrub¬ 
bery with their brilliant yellows and golds. 
Helenium lifts a terra-cotta cloud. Zinnias 
flash and flame along the border. Far off, 
the hills are beginning to turn. Autumn is 
here—the cool, crisp mornings, the sharp 
nightfalls and the clear sky that give a hint 
of winter eventually inevitably to come. Out¬ 
doors there isn’t a hint of Christmas. But 
inside here—! 
For days and days our shoppers have been 
combing the wares of a hundred streets, girl 
shoppers and men shoppers picking out, in 
these autumn days, the Christmas presents 
for a hundred thousand readers scattered all 
over this country. 
House & Garden’s is a big family to buy 
for. Its stocking is enormous. All kinds of 
desires and needs have to be met. Think of 
trying to imagine the Christmas hopes and 
needs of a hundred thousand people! Think 
of the searching necessary to fill these needs, 
.1 little decoration in Grisaille, one of the 
illustrations in the Christmas number 
the study of stocks in scores of shops! 
Outside, tidal waves of cosmos spill over 
the garden wall. Inside, is a vast room with 
tables stacked high with Christmas presents. 
This is the romantic contrast of one Septem¬ 
ber afternoon. And it is this romance that 
makes editing such a great game. It is this 
feeling that each page, as it goes to the printer, 
is an anticipation of a vast number of needs 
and desires. 
Not all of this Christmas issue can be de¬ 
voted to Christmas gifts, but a large propor¬ 
tion is, and the range of choice is wide. There 
will be houses in this number, eight delightful 
houses including none other than Irvin Cobb’s, 
with Mr. Cobb telling what he thinks of it. 
There will be color schemes for living rooms 
by Weymer Mills and some little French gar¬ 
dens designed by M. Forestier, who laid out 
the Bagatelle roserie in Paris, and something 
on decorations in Grissaile and an informative 
article on the quiet house. It will be a full 
stocking, this Christmas House & Garden, and 
it will be hung up early at the newsstands. 
Contents for November, 1921. Volume XL, No. Five 
Cover Design by Clayton Knight 
Romantic Beauty in Concrete. 20 
Stiles 0. Clement, Architect 
Some Modern California Architecture. 21 
Eloise Roorbach 
The Gentleman at Home. 26 
The Back of the House . 27 
Smith & Bassett, Architects 
Cupboards of Olden Times. 2S 
Gardner Teall 
Cheerful Color in the Dining Room. 30 
Weymer Mills 
The Gardens of Lt. Col., the Hon. Frederic Nichols, 
Toronto, Canada. 31 
If You Are Going to Build. 32 
Mary Fanton Roberts 
Good Architecture Is Made Up of Good Details. 34 
H. T. Lindeberg, Architect 
The Color of Sunlight . 36 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 37 
Adventures in Quaintness. 40 
Ethel Davis Seal 
Fall and Winter Blankets. 42 
Dried Flowers for Winter Decoration. 43 
Simple Furnishings tor a Farmhouse. 44 
Mrs. Emott Buel, Decorator 
The Culture and Care of Palms. 45 
E. Bade 
Garage Sites and Entrance Drives. 46 
J. C. Campbell 
Decorating Our Fall Walls. 48 
Muriel Harris 
A Page of Three Unusual Rooms. 49 
Middle Plants for the Perennial Border. 50 
H. Stuart Ortloff 
How to Group Furniture. 52 
Randolph IF. Sexton 
Four Good American Houses. 53 
Taking Guesswork Out of Gas Cookery. 56 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Snapdragons for Beds and Borders. 58 
A. H. Coltart 
The Ancestor of the Skymight.. 59 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
For Early Christmas Shoppers. 60 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 62 
Subscribers are notified that no change of address can 
be effected in. less than one month. 
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