ACROSS THE Editor's Desk
HOME from school every day come the children, some of them loaded down like young lawyers with brief cases and bags bulging with homework for tomorrow's lessons.
Read ArticleTHE DIARY of a Plain Dirt Gardener
What a day! What a day! First, I went out to the vegetable garden and gathered ten ripe cantaloupes, which I hauled to the back door in the wheelbarrow, to Maggie's dismay, for we haven't begun to eat what I brought in the past two days.
Read ArticleDon't Be So Kind To Your Burglar!
EVERYONE dreads a burglar. He has an uncanny knack of twisting keys and no end of nerve-- he may walk right in while you are listening to the radio. Sneak thieves take things while you are talking to them. Prowlers can be ugly customers.
Read ArticleModern Is Adaptable
HAVEN'T you often thought of yourself as a modern person in most respects, except for your inability to picture yourself living in a room decorated in the Modern manner? Haven't you felt, as you looked at Modern rooms, that tradition has been so far thrown overboard that there's nothing left of those essential qualities, charm and hominess, which spell the difference between your own living-room, no matter how simple, and the lobby of a hotel, no matter how elegant? Of course, many of us have accepted, even welcomed, modern developments in various other phases of our lives.
Read ArticleGive Your Home the Air
TWENTY-FIVE years ago a craze for California Bungalows came out of the West like news of a gold strike. It hopped the Rockies, hit with a vengeance in the Middlewest. Up went sprawling bungalow foundations that gulped load after load of tile. Up went roofs too low-pitched to carry off the Middlewest's heavy snow and rain
Read Articleof Course You Can Grow Sweet Peas
DO YOU know anyone who still grows Sweet Peas, the same lovely fragrant flowers that filled Grandmother's garden with such heavenly perfume? Chances are you haven't seen good Sweet Peas in the garden for years. People all wail that Sweet Peas have "run out," that modern varieties are "no Rood."
Read ArticleVanity SWEET Vanity
The Polka Gay, practical, and peasanty, its full skirt created from alternating stripes of white and lilac linen falling from a lilac band, its seams banded with coral rickrack. The standing mirror on the mirror table top is crystal with tiny crystal rosettes, while the lamps start with brass candlesticks, rise to wee oil pots of coral and white spiraled glass, topped by white parchment paper shades bright with coral rickrack.
Read ArticleSEPTEMBER Indoor GARDENING GUIDE
HERE'S something that's easy, fun, and excitingly new-- cutting some of your flowers now and drying them in sand for fresh winter bouquets. Imagine what that means. Bouquets of your own flowers, grown in your own summer garden, for Thanksgiving and Christmas and those bright winter afternoon parties; bouquets that keep their color and summery crispness for weeks, even when your fireplace is roaring.
Read ArticleSEPTEMBER Outdoor GARDENING GUIDE
COOLING rains and shortening days start new growth in September. Annuals burst out in all their glory. Perennials send up new shoots and dig their roots in deeper. Woody plants, too, are making ready for their no-decision bout with winter.
Read ArticleFLOOR-ICULTURE
IF YOU'RE thinking this fall about new carpets and rugs for your home, ten to one you belong to one of the following classifications of humanity:
Read ArticleColor-IS THE THEME
COMBINE A KEEN enthusiasm, a nose for news, a down-to-earth appreciation of women's needs, and a fine working knowledge of the field of home-decorating-- and you have a candid-camera shot of Florence B. Terhune, author, lecturer, charming person.
Read Article"Pot-of-Gold" House
WE'RE tempted to use a lot of superlatives about this month's Bildcost Gardened Home. For, to us, it's a rare find. We're quite elated about it. And if you're a longtime seeker for a small house that'll take care of a good-sized family, and yet one that can be built without pocketbook strain, we think you'll be elated, too.
Read ArticleMore Four-legged Families
AMERICA'S Enemy No. 1 today is child unemployment. This startling conclusion comes from one of the country's foremost authorities on family life, Dr. Paul Popenoe, head of the Institute of Family Relations, of Los Angeles, the only organization in the world devoted solely to the problems of the home.
Read ArticleThey're Prize Concoctions
AND tops among the prize-takers, in our Cooks' Contest for Salad Dressings, and Rice Main Dishes announced last March, we give you delectable and fluffy Pineapple-Cheese Dressing, masterpiece of Miss Elsie E. McMurray, of Avalon, Pennsylvania.
Read ArticleAccessories That Go to College
LET'S get right to the point by assuming that you're a first-year college girl-- or will be that exciting person in a few speedy weeks-- and that you're completely in a fog about what to take along to feather your dormitory nest-to-be.
Read ArticleAsk Me Another!
Q Recently I inherited a really fine portrait framed in a carved gold-leaf frame. I want to hang it over the fireplace, but that wall is of ordinary plastered brick. How shall I hang it so it will look right?
Read ArticleTourists Taken ...
THE vagabond fever used to be seasonal, but now it's epidemic the year around. We haven't started taking in each other's washings. We just take each other in, at a dollar a head.
Read ArticlePatch That Basement Wall
A LEAKY basement wall is no disgrace, but often needless. Basements of even very good houses may become porous, especially with age, but the remedies are simple and inexpensive. They're also exacting; if wrongly used, failure is certain.
Read ArticleHow to ... an Old House
IT'S a foregone conclusion that a few architects, contractors, and home-owners served KP duty in the army. Or else, in their short-pants days, they used to help Mother peel potatoes. Their work indicates a background of expert familiarity with a paring knife.
Read ArticleAutumn-Crocus IT'S TRULY MAGICAL
IF YOU read the advertisements, you will find that autumn-crocus require no soil, no water, and no care. Of course, you'll take this statement with a grain of caution, but it's true that they're quite magical. They'll bloom as soon as late summer arrives, without soil or water.
Read ArticleRoyal Show-Off These Lilies
WHEN fall shows up on the horizon, and you can go out almost any evening after supper and smell it in the air, that's the time to plant lilies.
Read ArticleThere's a Hedge for Every Purpose
HEDGES are the home-owners' window dressings. They're the final touch that sets off a place-- the hallmark of the family that wants a more attractive home and garden.
Read ArticleTATTLE TALES
Among Our Guests: Back in 1915, Frank W. Brock ("Don't Be So Kind to Your Burglar," page 13) was engaged by the New York Tribune Bureau of Investigation to assist Samuel Hopkins Adams in getting up some feature stories exposing business frauds.
Read ArticleThe Man Next Door
In our block the two champion vacationists seem to be the lawyer on the corner, who claims he drove more mileage in this summer's holiday than anyone else in the neighborhood, and the doctor across the street, who boasts that he spent more hours in bed and out in the sunshine.
Read ArticleThe Room That ... From a Picture
YOU'VE heard the old one about the man who assembled his car around a crank? Well, this is its modern counterpart-- the story of a living-room-of-today built around the colors in a lovely picture.
Read ArticleTax-Dodging That's Legal
POSSIBLY you were one of the millions of men and women who eagerly followed the daily column "New York Day by Day" in your favorite newspaper, written by the lovable O. O. McIntyre who died in 1937.
Read ArticleAlong the Garden Path
DID YOU KNOW that rose canes can be protected for the winter by laying them on the grass walk? Remove some of the soil on the side of the plant toward the path, bend the canes down and secure them with stakes as shown in the sketch, then mound with soil.
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