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Articles in this issue

Marriage a Gamble?
12
How to Keep on Speaking Terms With Your Wife
14
How to Keep on Speaking Terms With Your Wife
15
IF YOU WANT TO SAVE, Better Build Now
16
What Price Orchids?
18
The House They Built, The Garden They Grew
21
The House They Built, The Garden They Grew
22
The House They Built, The Garden They Grew
23
Phlox
24
Phlox
25
Six Low-Cost Homes
26
Six Low-Cost Homes
27
POTS VINES ANNUALS
28
POTS VINES ANNUALS
29
From England to the Alps Without a Passport
30
From England to the Alps Without a Passport
31
3 HOMES OF YESTERDAY Catch Up WITH TOMORROW
32
3 HOMES OF YESTERDAY Catch Up WITH TOMORROW
33
MAY Indoor Gardening Guide
34
It's Here--the Gayest Show of All
35
That's My Color!
36
That's My Color!
37
That's My Color!
38
That's My Color!
39
"We Furnished For Fun and Sons"
40
"We Furnished For Fun and Sons"
41
Curtains! Of course you can make
42
Curtains! Of course you can make
43
PLYWOOD AND NOW IT'S BUILDING'S BOUNCING BABY
44
PLYWOOD AND NOW IT'S BUILDING'S BOUNCING BABY
45
Good Furniture Is Adaptable
46
Article
48
Smarty Pans
52
Smarty Pans
53
Extra Sparkle for Your SUMMER MEALS
54
Extra Sparkle for Your SUMMER MEALS
55
The Party's on You?
63
EXCLUSIVELY YOURS SAYS A MONOGRAM
64
EXCLUSIVELY YOURS SAYS A MONOGRAM
65
GROW YOUR OWN ROSES TULIPS AND DAFFODILS From Seed
66
GROW YOUR OWN ROSES TULIPS AND DAFFODILS From Seed
67
GROW YOUR OWN ROSES TULIPS AND DAFFODILS From Seed
68
"Blondie"
68
Furniture Styles And How to Recognise Them
70
Six Low-Cost Homes
75
New Spring Trends
76
New Spring Trends
77
Good at Heart
78
The Question Before the House
81
In June
82
Housekeeping With Poise
88
Housekeeping With Poise
89
Salute to Canada's Foods
90
The House They Built, The Garden They Grew
92
The House They Built, The Garden They Grew
93
The House They Built, The Garden They Grew
94
Working Like a Dog
99
Garnish and Serve With Love
100
Garnish and Serve With Love
101
We Built Drawers in Our Catch-all Cubby
102
We're Building a Dream With Our Own Hands
104
We're Building a Dream With Our Own Hands
105
We're Building a Dream With Our Own Hands
106
Our Mailing Dates Change
106
Double Your Garden's Bloom
108
Double Your Garden's Bloom
109
A Whale of a Difference
110
What Surface far My Walls?
113
ALL FROM THREE CHAIRS
113
How to Keep on Speaking Terms With Your Wife
114
Here's a Home to Start With
116
Here's a Home to Start With
117
Working Like a Dog
118
Working Like a Dog
120
Working Like a Dog
121
Give Your GARAGE DOORS Glamour
122
Give Your GARAGE DOORS Glamour
123
I Fattened Up My Living-Room
124
I Fattened Up My Living-Room
125
From England to the Alps Without a Passport
126
From England to the Alps Without a Passport
127
From England to the Alps Without a Passport
128
I Made My Living-Room Twenty Years Younger for $20
131
Curtains! Of course you can make
132
Curtains! Of course you can make
133
Got a Date Young Fellow?
134
Got a Date Young Fellow?
135
Capture That Red-Letter Setting
136
Capture That Red-Letter Setting
137
Article
138
That Gifted Child of Yours
138
Article
139
Baby Clinic
139
How to Have for...
140
How to Have for...
141
Zucchini Grow This New Vegetable
142
Zucchini Grow This New Vegetable
143
Who Wants a Liar-Husband?
143
Work Garden Magic With PANSIES
144
Work Garden Magic With PANSIES
145
From England to the Alps Without a Passport
146
Ask Me Another!
147
Make Your Own Weather Vane
148
Make Your Own Weather Vane
149
THE MAN NEXT DOOR
150
THE MAN NEXT DOOR
151
There's a Lamp for That Job
152
There's a Lamp for That Job
153
PLYWOOD AND NOW IT'S BUILDING'S BOUNCING BABY
154
DAD'S Practical Pointers
155
The Diary OF A PLAIN DUCT GARDENER
156
The Diary OF A PLAIN DUCT GARDENER
157
POTS VINES ANNUALS
158
The Diary OF A PLAIN DUCT GARDENER
158
The Diary OF A PLAIN DUCT GARDENER
159
Phlox
160
Hobby Gardens
160
Capture That Red-Letter Setting
161
Indoor Gardening Guide
161
EVERY ONE HAS A GREEN THUMB
162
EVERY ONE HAS A GREEN THUMB
163
How to Have for...
164
EVERY ONE HAS A GREEN THUMB
164
How to Have for...
165
IT'S NEWS TO ME!
166

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