June 
192 3 
House & Garden 
41 
Part of a little garden such as 
one could build behind a 
small house. It will be found 
in the July number 
W hat do you mean by ‘a 
small house’?” 
This is a question we have to 
answer half a dozen times a 
day. And the answer usually 
brings disappointment. “Small” 
today refers to the size; alas, 
it does not refer to the price. 
Those good old times when you 
could build a presentable small 
house for $6,000 have passed. 
They will never come again. 
When we are old we can tell 
our grandchildren and our 
great-grandchildren about them, 
and they will probably not 
believe us. 
This condition, so to speak, is 
an outcome of the war. Labor 
got accustomed to high wages 
during those days and, some¬ 
how, it thinks the war is still 
on. The average man may 
have his doubt as to who won 
that war, but when he comes 
to build a house he will have 
no doubts as to who is paying 
for it. 
All this is to introduce the 
fact that the next issue—July— 
will be the Small House Num¬ 
ber. In preparing for it we have 
seen and inspected scores of 
small houses; the results of 
our labors will be a seven page 
group of about ten good 
houses of types we can recom¬ 
mend and of costs that are not 
Contents for June , 1 923. 
Cover Design by H. George Brandt 
The House & Garden Bulletin Board . 43 
The Pool by the Doorstep . 44 
Mellor, Meigs & Howe, Architects 
Garden Seats and Shelters . 45 
Richard H. Pratt 
The House of Sir Philip Sassoon, Lympne, England .... 48 
Herbert Baker, Architect 
What the Amateur Gardener Can Do . 50 
Samuel Fraser 
Making the Hall a Picture . 51 
Mellor, Meigs & Howe, Architects 
Book Rooms of Individuality . 52 
Margaret McElroy 
The Charm of the Enclosed Garden . 54 
Dorothea Dunlea 
The Home of Dr. Walton Martin, Cornwall, Ct. 55 
Edward C. Dean, Architect 
Roses to the Sky . 56 
Minga Pope Duryea 
Early American Chairs . 58 
Gardner Teall . 
Filling The Summer Fireplace . 60 
A Little Portfolio of Good Interiors . 61 
Hunting Curios In Provincial England . 64 
Sir James Yoxall 
Wall Papers for Dining Rooms . 65 
Lucy D. Taylor 
The Colonial Gardens of Mexico . 66 
Marques de San Francisco 
The Evolution of a Shrub Planting . 68 
Elizabeth Leonard Strang 
For Window and Terrace . 70 
A Group of Three Livable Houses . 71 
The Truth About Texture . 75 
Matlack Price 
Simplicity In Country House Bedrooms . 76 
The China on the Shelf . 77 
Verna Cook Salomonsky 
Solving the Hard Water Problem . 78 
Ethel R. Peyser 
Bay Windows . 79 
Bird Houses for the Garden . 82 
Baskets for Many Occasions . 83 
The Gardener’s Calendar . 84 
The Characteristics of William and Mary Furniture... 86 
Mr. & Mrs. G. Glen Gould 
too staggering. Of course, this 
group will not include all the 
houses in the issue, for there 
will be an article on log cabins 
that shows quite a variety of 
types and an article on remodel¬ 
ing which will show still more. 
In fact, it will be quite a housey 
number. 
Stepping from the houses 
you come into gardens that are 
equally modest in design and 
layout. Modest also are the in¬ 
teriors shown in this issue. 
That word “modest” is the 
one we have been searching for. 
It is the ideal for the small 
house. Because smallness does 
not necessarily mean cheapness 
nor should it ever mean bad or 
meagre taste. The atmosphere of 
the good small house, irrespec¬ 
tive of what it has cost to build 
and furnish, should be modest, 
unostentatious, comfortably liv¬ 
able, a very incarnation of the 
good goods that come in small 
packages. 
Most of us, when we think 
of home, think of a small 
house. We dream of castles in 
Spain and then build us a mod¬ 
est little house on a hillside. 
The July issue will help both 
the dream and the realization. 
Incidentally, it will be on 
the newsstands on the 23 rd of 
June. 
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