July 1934

Across the Editor's Desk

TOM THOMPSON has been editor of the Howard Courant, a Kansas newspaper, for more than 50 years, and is known to every newspaperman in the state, being held in high regard for his wholesome philosophy of life. Here is something he wrote recently:

Indian Pipes of Peace

The Diary

July 1 Now, when I am in my right mind and fair state of health, I always hoe at the peonies and iris before breakfast this time of year.

IT'S News TO ME!

"Here," said Nick, coming in the other day with an armload of most of our phlox, calendula, and marigolds. "Stick these in your vase, too."

Cues FOR Garden Care

SUMMERTIME in the old-fashioned garden! Lazy bygone days when it seemed that one could while away hours in the cooling shade of a colorful, sweet-scented garden-- a place to dream-- to relax in sheer contentment, amid the alluring handiwork of Nature.

Let's Eat Out--Menus and Helps for Preparing Summertime Food

A simple meal eaten in the summer coolness of porch or terrace tastes better than a banquet in a hot stuffy dining-room. Take a tip from Helen McNab Simmons, whose story appears on the opposite page, and eat in the coolest, pleasantest place you can find.

Comfort! These Summer Days

"IN SUMMER," the mother of two energetic youngsters remarked when we were chatting recently about vacation plans, "we usually spend two weeks at the lakes, with week-end motor trips now and then. And in between, in our own home, we manage a program of home decoration, table arrangement, and summer-menu planning that makes home jolly and comfortable these hot days.

TRAGEDY and TREASURE OF CHAVEZ CREEK

CHAVEZ was not much of a creek for size, but Chavez, baptized with blood in the eerie hush of a prairie night, had a background of romance and mystery. A spring-fed trickle thru a grassy swale, the diminutive stream had not been honored with a name until the murder of one Jose Chavez gave rise to such a necessity.

Cool as a Cucumber

FROM time immemorial man has cut wood, built fires, shoveled coal, and carried out ashes in an effort to keep warm in winter.

Easy Ascent and Beauty or a Back-breaking Nuisance

AN ARCHITECT friend of mine has a little old cottage in Connecticut, for week-ends. The stair has risers 9¼ inches high and treads 7 inches broad! The owner says he doesn't mind the stair. His guest frankly say they do. Certain it is, he doesn't design stairs like this in the houses he builds; if he did, just once, he'd never get another job.

On a Tennessee Hillside

HERE is a simple garden fashioned as a theater with terraced balconies, a grassy stage, a pool to mirror the dancers and reflect the flower lights, stage wings of blossoming shrubs and protecting evergreens, and with an orchestra of birds that join joyously with the violins that are often heard there.

Tricks The Florist Whispered To Me

I STOPPED on my way to the florist's to see Marie because I thought it would be just about time for her to be bathing the baby. And sure enough, Marie was just finishing the administration of a drink of water that had him filled to the rim, for he was bubbling it from his mischievous lips as tho he couldn't hold another drop.

First Aid for Ailing Plants

HOW much more fun gardening would be if only it were not for the bugs! But cheer up! There's much good news in store for you. Valuable new improvements for chemical warfare against pests of all kinds have been introduced.

"Let Me Do It!"

THE last time Peter reported in these pages he was a toddler, a mere baby, in fact. Now he has reached the ripe age of 4, and it is time for him to retire, so far as this intimate record in Better Homes & Gardens is concerned.

AMONG Ourselves

One Match and 500 YEARS

TO A PALACE beautiful in the cool north woods-- that's where Pan is taking all our Aces of the Green Triangle this month.

The New Picnic Technique

LET'S have a picnic next weekend. Let's make it the grandest outdoor meal of all-- a feast that will cause a clamor for an encore.

"When he's bigger, you don't know what these snapshots will mean"

How Much Do You Know

DR. E. V. McCOLLUM, of the Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, in this special statement prepared for Better Homes & Gardens says:

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An Ancient Sport for Summer Fun

GARDEN archery is so ancient that no one knows when it first began. Roman emperors, sultans, satraps, and pharos all had private ranges or butts, both for their own use and for the members of their families as well. Surely then as today they were aped by the commoners, with good reason indeed, for archery is as interesting as it is attractive in appearance.

Name The Place!

HAVING long felt a need for an appropriate name for a log cabin, and desiring one that combined a musical sound with a meaning which adequately expressed the atmosphere of the place, I at last fell upon the vocabularies of the languages of the American Aborigines.

Loans Without Red Tape

The Old Oaken Bucket Comes Back

A WEATHER-BEATEN old well like this, with windlass and bucket, half-hidden in the shrubbery at the far end of your yard or garden is picturesque and very easily built.

Suggest you see at the Century of Progress

"Singing Insects"

Along the Garden Path

WHEREVER we travel we leave our hearts at home. I have been visiting Georgia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania gardens and now I have returned home to my own garden. I agree with Mrs. Calder Willingham, of Rome, Georgia, who writes me: