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Contents for December, 1918. Volume XXXIV, No. Six 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
RICHARDSON WRIGHT, Editor 
Cover Design by Maurice Day 
Frontispiece . 10 
Dugald Stuart Walker 
The Garden on the Cliff. 11 
Alfred Noyes 
A Bedroom in the Residence of R. C. Howe, Esq., Jericho, 
L. I. .... 13 
Miss Gheen, Decorator 
The Residence of Allan Lehman, Esq., Tarrytown, N. Y . 14 
John Russell Pope, Architect 
The Ambulance that Went to Bethlehem. 16 
Christmas Eve. 16 
Christopher Morley 
A House by the Side of the Street. 17 
Dwight James Baum, Architect 
The Story of the Christmas Card. 18 
Gardner Teall 
Old French Wall Paper Decorations. 20 
Eugene Clute 
Stair-rails, Spindles and Newels. 22 
Harold Donaldson Eberlein 
A Study in the Texture of Walls. 24 
The Door That Is Inside the House. 24 
Winter Isn’t Half Bad. 25 
Arthur Loomis Harmon, Architect 
Interior Decorations That Soldiers Like. 26 
Emily Burbank 
The Residence of James F. Clarke, Esq., Fairfield, Iowa... 28 
Barry Byrne, Architect 
. 30 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors. 31 
A Beginner’s Lace Collection. 34 
Mabel F. Bainbridge 
A Rest House and Bird Garden on the Estate of Mrs. Payne 
Whitney, Manhasset, L. 1. 36 
J. H. Phillips, Architect 
Electric Luxuries That Are Necessities. 38 
Eva Nagel Wolf 
A Footnote on Sleeping Porches. 39 
Agnes Foster Wright, Decorator 
The Residence of Fred I. Kent, Esq., Scarsdale, N. Y . 40 
Patterson & Dula, Architects 
Some Random Thoughts on a Pagan Plant. 41 
Robert S. Lemmon 
Putting on the Garden’s Winter Clothes. 42 
William C. McCollom 
The Farm Group of Edward F. Hutton, Esq., Bayshore, L. I. 44 
Charles M. Hart, Architect 
Keeping Warm in a Colonial Winter. 45 
George W. Jennings 
China, Glass and Silver for the Christmas Table. 46 
For Him in Service. 47 
Inside Small Stockings. 48 
Presents for the Household. 49 
Gifts of Linen. 50 
Finally—A Number of Useful Things. 51 
The Gardener’s Calendar. 52 
Copyright, 1918, by Conde Nast & Co., Inc. 
Title House & Garden registered in U. S. Patent Office 
NEXT MONTH 
T HE title for the next issue is The Furniture 
Number and that covers a multitude of in¬ 
terests allied to the choice and placing of 
furniture. For example, the first article will de¬ 
scribe the furniture necessary for bedrooms. 
Three types of bedrooms will be shown, with the 
price of each piece given, so that the room is 
decorated for you at a glance. Thus far in this 
series we have described living and dining rooms, 
and the interest aroused by those articles shows 
the type of professional service rendered by 
House & Garden. Other articles will describe 
furniture hardware—which is vitally necessary to 
a good piece—painted furniture and cottage 
chairs, to mention only three. 
If you are in doubt as to the latest method of 
tying back curtains, here is a page of the latest 
styles with all the little details explained by 
sketches. Or if you want to make a garden inside 
your house, with latticed walls and a trickling 
fountain, you will find just the idea in a house 
garden described in this number. The Little Port¬ 
folio in January will consist of five views of San 
Francisco homes, all of them very smartly deco¬ 
rated by Mrs. Edgar de Wolfe. The kitchen 
article—and we believe the equipment of the 
kitchen is as necessary as the furnishing of a 
Painted furniture for the 
breakfast room is among 
the January topics 
bedroom—will be on the treatment of floors, 
walls and ceilings. 
There are six houses in this issue—one is a 
large Italian house in stucco; the second a little 
adaptation of Southern Colonial, a house just big 
enough for two; the third is a Long Island farm¬ 
house, a rambling shingle structure of great charm; 
the fourth a little bungalow with sliding parti¬ 
tions somewhat like a Japanese house; the fifth a 
Dutch Colonial home in New Jersey, and the last 
a house with an arcaded garden. Here is an 
abundant diversity of architecture, sizes and 
localities. 
The collector will find an unusual subject in 
Mr. Teall’s article on collecting curios made by 
prisoners of war. Blaikie Murdoch also begins 
in this issue a two-part contribution on Japanese 
art. 
A new series of gardening articles by William 
McCollom starts in January. His first is a warn¬ 
ing to do your seed shopping early, which will 
be necessary next year. Winter pruning, a seasonal 
requisite, is described here in detail. The Garden¬ 
er’s Calendar will continue through 1919. 
Arthur Guiterman, whose new book of verse, 
“The Mirthful Lyre,” is gathering unto itself much 
popularity, contributes the editorial page poem. 
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