October 1933

Across the Editor's Desk

A VERY valuable and important new agency for the relief of home owners was created by Congress last summer, and approved by President Roosevelt June 13, 1933, and will probably be in operation when this issue reaches you. It is called the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, and its purpose is to refinance homes, not exceeding $20,000 in value, which are already mortgaged and in distress.

It's News to Me!

THERE ARE cheeses and cheeses, some fit best one time, some another. And, so help me, it takes a man to discriminate! Grated Parmesan over spaghetti, nippy Camem bert on crackers, Swiss nut-sweet and ice-cold for a lunch, good old American and apple pie.

Happy Flower Neighbors

THE gardener is an artist holding in his hand a palette. Instead of lifeless oil and water colors, his palette contains a vast array of plants. Each season of the year Nature composes her own pictures, but in the gardens we can compose pictures to suit our preferences for quiet harmonies, exciting contrasts, or seasons of gayety.

Snug Harbor

"WE ARE ready to build on the front of our lot and move out of the Fo'castle," the Doctor announced as the architect ushered him and his wife into the office.

Draperies and Upholstery Should Harmonize

LAST month we showed you glass curtains! So this month here are drapery and upholstery materials and the newest ideas in window shades. And with these we complete the "wear" for modern windows.

What October Means in California

IF YOU were to ask a California gardener which is the most important garden month to him, he would say "October"-- that is, if he is a planner as well as a planter. For, while most other sections of the United States are putting their gardens to bed at this time, we are planning how to keep up a continuous succession of bloom so that there may never be a dull day.

Old Favorites Re-styled

Put on the Pan--the Right One!

THE largest part of the cooking done by our average family is done on top of the stove. Yet how haphazardly we choose our kettles and saucepans and other top-of-the-stove cooking utensils. But when we know that the right kind of utensil will actually save fuel, make cooking easier, and produce better-cooked foods, then it becomes a matter of some importance.

First Aid for Your Rooms

FROM furniture and department stores all over the country, for the 1,400,000 Better Homes & Gardens homemakers, we have assembled these many refurnishing ideas, any of which will help to make your home more attractive, comfortable, and livable. We are thoroly convinced that the American people have returned to the good old principle of the home as the gathering place of the family and the center of true hospitality.

Welcome, Strangers!

BULB WISE American gardeners are coming to realize the ornamental possibilities of larger and larger numbers of the many bulbs which are natives of our great West. Considering their merits, they are much less planted than they deserve to be.

Autumn Glory!

JAPAN'S countryside is beautiful at cherry-blossomtime. Then each year the Japanese hold a national holiday just to admire the beauty of the cherry blossoms. Holland, too, has its season of floral loveliness, when the tulip and the hyacinth fields bloom, enlivening with bold patches of brilliant, glorious colors the flat Dutch countryside, with its windmills and its canals.

Sunshine and Flowers

WINTER in cold climates becomes more endurable with each passing year. We have learned to pass air thru a machine and from there to distribute it thruout the home, so that we may live in the luxurious and exhilarating atmosphere of spring while we look out upon a scene of chilly bleakness.

We Like the African-violet

WHEN an English volume told us that the African-violet (Saintpaulia) was a tender perennial, more satisfactory if treated as a biennial, my husband agreed that we should not experiment with it. Moreover, the authority said that the plant required a heated greenhouse.

"These Are Keeno"

IT'S FUN, isn't it, to swap stories about my Junior and your Katie-- what they have been doing, and saying? So this month I at least am going to have a thoroly delightful time acting as book-reporter for the four little Garsts. But in turn, I promise to listen ever so carefully when you write back to tell me just how and why your youngsters have selected their books.

Article

Dear Among Ourselves: For the first time in 28 years of married life, it was recently necessary that I should prepare the breakfasts.

Geraniums on the Window-Sill

CRISP October! Time to refurbish the kitchen, adding colorful dress-up touches; time to bring house plants indoors!

ROSES---the Best of the Newest

THIS year has been notable for the interesting rose novelties making their debuts in American gardens, and they have been well received.

Memories of Late Summer

Caveman Food

MORE than 12,000 years ago a low-browed fellow sat in the doorway of his cave in southern France and carved on a piece of reindeer bone a surprisingly good picture of a salmon. It is the first record to indicate that the salmon was a favorite food when the reindeer lived in France and the great glacial ice sheet covered most of Europe.

WE RECOMMEND

The Diary of a Plain Dirt Gardener

Oct. 1 As I looked out toward our bit of wooded ravine this morning I saw a row of grenadiers in scarlet coats, parading on the brow of the hill. It was the little colony of wild sumac that has dressed up in autumn uniform for the fall color parade.

"Chamois" Skin Isn't Chamois

To Help You in October

COOL autumn days are busy days in the gardened home. There's the garden-- and the hours you spend there this fall, putting it to bed, so to speak, will be repaid lavishly with spring blooms. Early October is the time to plant your spring-flowering bulbs.

When a Speaker Can't Come

"HELLO-- oh, yes, Susan. What's that? You mean you can't do it? Oh, dear!" Susan has just called to say that she discovered only this morning that the children were exposed to scarlet fever yesterday, and now the doctor is ordering the family into solitary confinement for observation, and she can't have the meeting at her home this afternoon.

ALONG THE GARDEN PATH

AND now that your thoughts have returned to autumn, perhaps you remember what Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote: