Contents for November, 1918. Volume XXXIV, No. Five 
House & Garden 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
Cover Design by H. George Brandt 
Statuary in the Garden Picture. 10 
Edward F. Sanford, Sculptor 
Building, Remodeling and the War. 11 
P. B. O’Connor 
Summer Thoughts in Winter.!. 14 
Mrs. Francis King 
Inside the House with the Green Door. IS 
Mary H. Northend 
Small Town Stuff . 16 
The Old Man in the Garden During an Illness. 16 
Robert Nichols 
A Touch of Italy in New York. 17 
Robert Wistar Morris, Architect 
The Fascinating Story of Old Chelsea. 18 
Gardner Teall 
“Shallow Brook Farm,” Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 20 
Robert Wtstar Morris, Architect 
Notes on the Hanging of Tapestries. 22 
F. Delany SmUh 
The Residence of Courtlandt D. Barnes, Esq., Manhas- 
SET, L. I. . 24 
Peabody, Wilson & Brown, Architects 
The Popularity of the Rag Mat. '. . 26 
W. G. Woods 
Buying Now for the Future House. 27 
The Residence of Eugene Meyer, Jr., Esq., Mt. Kisco, N. Y. .. 28 
Charles A. Platt, Architect 
The White Bathroom and Its Color Code. 30 
Mildred G. Bowen 
A Swiss Chalet in an Illinois Ravine. 32 
Henry Blackman Sell 
The Rose Garden of Two Popular Artists. 34 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 35 
Planting the Deciduous Trees and Shrubs. 38 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang 
A Colonial House Successfully Restored . 40 
Lemuel Fowler 
Mirrors and Mirror Frames in Three Centuries. 42 
Costen Fitz-Gibbon 
The Farm Group of Glenn Stuart, Esq., Locust Valley, L. I. 44 
Alfred Hopkins, Architect 
Seen in the Shops. 46 
The War Garden Department. 47 
The Gardener’s Calendar.- =. 48 
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Title House & Garden registered in U. S. Patent Office 
THE CHRISTMAS HOUSE NUMBER 
W HETHER this is going to be the happiest 
Christmas in five years it is difficult to 
say at the present writing. Foch has the 
Boche on the run, and between this 2nd of 
October and the 25th of December a great many 
things may happen to bring peace on earth again. 
But even if we can’t get the boys out of the 
trenches by Christmas, we are going to stop long 
enough in our grind of war work and war sacrifice 
to remember the day and remember others. 
For them are six pages of Christmas gifts se¬ 
lected especially by the House & Garden Shop¬ 
pers because they are useful and moderate in price. 
Linens, china, glass, silver, small pieces of furni¬ 
ture, toys, and a page of soldier gifts will com¬ 
prise the list. Shop early so that the railroads 
will not be flooded at Christmas time. Incident¬ 
ally, the gifts on these pages are small in size and 
will not make undue space demands in the express 
cars and mail bags. 
That much for six of the pages. The other 
thirty-four editorial pages contain a delectable 
variety of subjects. Alfred Noyes has written 
“The Garden on the Cliff” for this issue and D. 
Stuart Walker is doing the illustrations. Then 
come a page of remarkable interiors followed by 
a house in the snow, a good old English type of 
The Collector’s article in 
the December issue is 
on Old Christmas Cards 
house. The collector’s article is on Christmas 
cards, and in this you will learn that the English 
and not the Germans, as is usually supposed, 
started the Christmas card practice. 
Interior decoration in hostess houses might seem 
like stretching a point, but some of our best deco¬ 
rators have given their services to the furnishing 
of these cantonment havens, and their work is 
particularly striking. 
French wall papers are discussed in the follow¬ 
ing article, which is the last of the series on old 
papers. After this you read of handrails and 
spindles, inside architectural details which can 
make or ruin a hallway. 
From Iowa comes a house in that singular up- 
and-down architecture, with interior decorations 
to fit. It is unusual and striking. 
Those who give house plants for gifts will find 
a suggestion in a little article on the care of such 
plants and the instructions to send with them. 
In the Little Portfolio are five rooms that offer 
a variety of decorative suggestions. The more 
you study these rooms, the more practical ideas 
you can find in them. 
“A Beginner’s Lace Collection” will give you an 
idea of what laces to start with, how to select, 
mend and mount them. 
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