July 1927

"The Best Scout In The World"

GOSH, mister, I can hardly wait! Tomorrow's Saturday an' my Dad has promised to chuck the ole store-- right on the busiest day in the whole week, too-- an' go fishin' with me! Ain't that grand? Gosh, I hope it don't rain. Do you suppose it will, mister? Aw, gee, it won't, will it?

Blooms from Japanese Gardens

THE Japanese garden ideal is a difficult ideal for the occidental mind. Flowers in a Japanese garden are a matter of accident, for with rare exceptions they happen because the tree or the shrub that bears them has a desired form of limb and branch.

Autorambles Over American Highways

THE nomads of the highways, the flivver gypsies, the autoramblers or just plain motor campers, as you wish, go out on their vacations with varying motives in response to the urge to get away from home for recreation.

Why not Grow Your Own Celery?

HAVE you ever had the delightful experience of growing, in your own garden, "honest to goodness" crisp, tender, toothsome celery? If you haven't you have surely missed one of the delightful thrills of home gardening. If your idea of this delicacy is associated with stuffy grocery stores and smelly markets, no wonder you haven't acquired much of a taste for it.

Plan Now for Winter Bouquets

WHEN Jack Frost sounds the knell of the garden blooms, we need not feel that the house shall be left flowerless all winter. It can have cheer and gayety even tho it cannot boast of fresh blossoms daily. We sigh as we look at the spaces once filled with bowls of lilac, peonies, cosmos and delphiniums. At first glance there seems to be nothing to fill these places; for once we have had floral decorations in our home the feeling of welcome seems somehow lacking without them.

Homes of Famous Americans

THE last frontier is fast slipping into the horizon of the past; indeed, the American frontier and all that it has implied in our imaginations and in our history, is no more. Gone are the treacherous redskins and the crack of rifle in the wooded glen; gone are the romantic long-haired scouts; gone are the buffalo and the antelope-- gone, alas, are the long caravans of covered wagons plodding into the setting sun!

When Next You Move The Furniture Around

MANY times I have chuckled to myself over the story of the woman who was always changing the position of her furniture: "One evening a neighbor who dropped in for a visit exclaimed, 'Why, you've moved your piano again!' To which the man of the house replied. 'Yes, again! And again!

A Charming Little House of Brick

PRESENTING an unusually pleasing outside appearance and possessing a delightfully planned interior, the small brick house shown in the accompanying illustration constitutes a home of which anyone might justly be proud. And, naturally, the effective arrangement of shrubbery planting about the front helps to show off the house to excellent advantage, incidentally emphasizing the invariable importance of attractive grounds in the making of a home genuinely admirable.

To Keep Out Flowers

EVERYONE struggles to make cut flowers last as long as possible, whether they have been purchased from a florist or gathered in the garden. We hear a great deal about hot water, salt or aspirin, and many people may wonder whether these really do help or not and when and how they should be used.

July Garden Reminders

JULY is the month when the plants need special attention as to water. Any check in growth of vegetables and flowers means a certain percentage of loss in fruit or bloom. In watering get the water to the roots. Water should never be dashed against the soil; this not only helps to harden it but often exposes part of the roots.

Making Crippled Children Straight

THE crippled child, whose withered arm or dangling leg bars him from participating in the fun of normal youngsters, would seem to have enough to bear from that fact alone.

Frozen Fruit Salads and Desserts

ELECTRIC refrigeration in the home has not only lightened the housekeeper's task of constant dessert-making, but has given the home table frozen dainties daily which heretofore were found only in hotels. Hot weather has few terrors for the family that can revel in plenty of cooling salads and desserts.

HOMES OF WELL-KNOWN AMERICAN WOMEN

Boys Will Like to Make This Boat

I wonder how many boys are interested in boat building? Many, I believe, and many more would be if they knew how easily one can be made with very little expense.

A Basement Greenhouse

MY neighbor's greenhouse is in the basement where it is handy and there is enough room in the 3x18-foot bench it boasts to grow all the winter vegetables the family needs, and also to start plants for the spring garden.

ACROSS THE EDITOR'S DESK

JULY means the vacation month for many of you, a time in which you can get away from the daily grind, an opportunity to forget the petty cares that infest every job and every business in the world. Like all the rest of you, nothing thrills me more than to load up the old car, or jump on the train, and hie myself away for two or three weeks in search of contentment and honest-to-goodness fun. Along toward the end of the vacation, tho. I alwavs commence wondering about things at home.