May 1942

Anyone Can Grow TOMATOES

IF YOU'RE looking for a health-building vegetable to grow in your back yard this summer, you just can't go wrong on the good old tomato. It is the most universal and the most versatile garden vegetable there is.

Our Job ON THE HOME FRONT

TO APPRECIATE any worthy thing we must first understand it, and to understand it we must contemplate it-- think about it. Moreover, thinking is a time-consuming process which cannot be carried on successfully while we are engaged in any other difficult, enterprise. Thinking is a job in itself.

NOW IT'S A Beautiful Blonde

THE house was narrow. It looked peaked. The brown-shingled outside was dull and dirty, and you could tell that its small windows let very little light inside.

$50 Built Their Best Room

IN BEVERLY HILLS there are swish California estates by the dozen. But I want to tell you about the very special 18-x 24-foot estate of Bill and Bernice Larsen.

NEW MUMS Stay Longer

CHRYSANTHEMUMS today are making columns of garden news-- every bit of it good. Even the marigolds, petunias, and zinnias of the past few years can't outdo the happenings among the early garden mums.

Your Lawn--Its Care and Repair

The Daring Young Man in the Flying Debris

TIMES have changed. But ah-h-h! this is still a great country, neighbor. As my wife and I lean back in our porch chairs and look lazily out across the pastoral beauty of the near-by golf course-- and as we listen to the laughter of our children on our front lawn and enjoy the music of the mocking birds and cardinals in our elms-- a feeling of reverence and gratitude comes over us.

Diary of a Desperate Daddy

IT ALL started when the stork decided our chimney was the most attractive target he'd ever seen, and one ... two ... three little boys came to live with us in our first four and one-half years of married life.

May INDOOR Gardening Guide

May OUTDOOR Gardening Guide

IN MAY when you survey your borders and see the masses of yellow in the daffodils, tulips, doronicum, and alyssum, you know that you are "on the beam" in your gardening.

Paul Revere Passed Here

THEY say Paul Revere's famous ride took him over the very spot where the Lester H. Ryan home now stands at Lexington, Massachusetts. And they say, too, so authentic is its Early American design, that this brand-new little house might well have been standing there on that memorable night when Paul Revere came galloping down the road.

Lots of Bloom for Little Care IRIS PEONIES POPPIES

SMART people who like lots of color in their gardens plant quantities of iris, poppies, and peonies. And their many reasons all boil down to these:

A Brand-New House With That Lived-in Look

Make Them Yourself

Double Feature Rooms

Let's Go ANTIQUING No. 4 of a Serles

HELLO, Fellow Antiquers-- here we go again on a merry chase after more old American accessories to sparkle up our decorating schemes with romance and "local color."

These Easy Food Tricks

Tricks That Make

More Babies Are Alive

WOULD you like something to feel mighty good about? Well, here it is--America's record in the war that has been going on for a quarter of a century between the forces of science and the diseases which prey upon our babies and children.

Spring Lamb and Vegetables Romp Off With Prizes

THE clever things you folks do with spring lamb and little new vegetables! Our double-header contest announced last October rolled in scores of delectable new ones plus a crew of fine old favorites. Best treat of all was Savory Lamb Roll Roast --so off goes $5 first prize and Dish-of-Month honors to good cook Theresa M. Lessmeister of Peru, Illinois.

Two-Step House

Let 'em Dig

Children love to garden. Our six-year-old turned into a really careful truck gardener his first year, and even five-year-old Vicky had a lot of fun in her table-sized garden. With flowers we encouraged them to stick to the foolproof annuals like zinnias, cornflowers, nasturtiums, Sweet Alyssum, calendulas, and marigolds.

For Panty-Waist Plants

My Husband Made It

Corner Fireplaces

Practical Polly Says

Mother's Day Gifts that Love to Mother 365 Days a Year

MAY 10 is "Mother's Day" ... that's what the calendar-makers tell us, but every family knows that Mother's day starts about 7 o'clock three hundred sixty-five mornings a year, and winds up when the last small sprout is popped into bed with a loving goodnight kiss.

We Stage a Living-Room Crime Hunt

How we ever put up with our living-room before its re-creation remains a mystery. Maybe we looked but never really saw, until a casual time exposure (it's our "before") developed into a shocking "crime exposure."

We Adopted an Orphan House

THE deserted house was not left on our doorstep. Quite the contrary, I found it at an auction sale in Titusville, Pennsylvania. All I wanted was the lot. I expected to sell the house to the wreckers before even telling my wife about the purchase, for I was pretty sure she wouldn't see much resemblance between the sad old derelict and the neat litde Cape Cod house that high costs kept us from building.

The Diary of a Plain Dirt Gardener

May 1 To' our spring vegetable patch this afternoon, where I put in more snap beans and two rows of Baby Ford-hook Lima Beans. Then on to the coldframe where I sowed more annual seeds. Here the first things put in are already up and need watering.

Picture on the Cover

Name It Yourself

Put Your MORNING GLORIES to Work

More Babies Will Live If You Will Help

SO MUCH for the gain on the child-saving front, and a mighty one it is, with so many of the grim foe's most deadly allies either routed completely or in rapid retreat. We owe unbounded thanks to the doctors and research workers who've made and are making the fight. But they can't do it all alone.

Mother's Milk Bureaus

MOTHER'S milk has proved such a lifesaver for premature and frail babies that Mother's Milk Bureaus have been set up in several of our large cities. Healthy nursing mothers send in their surplus, which is frozen quickly by dry ice into small wafers, about the size and appearance of peppermint lozenges.

Mother's Milk for Babies

Nurse your baby! I'm afraid we haven't emphasized this enough since such satisfactory formulas have been developed, and it has been so easy to turn to the bottle the first time a hitch occurred. Good as formulas are, however, mother's milk is a necessity for prematures and the best safeguard for any baby against digestive upsets and epidemics, not to mention emergencies in which the milk supply might be cut off.

Baby Clinic

Spring Garden

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More Boners You Won't Want to Pull

Just because the inner workings of your home happen to concentrate in the space you've chosen for a playroom is no good reason for making fun there a physical hazard. It's not an expensive undertaking to reroute pipes and conduits most likely to be bumped into and tripped over. Ask your plumber or handy man to tell you all about it.

A Man's Breakfast

WHAT, for pete's sake, has become of breakfast? Before you ladies bristle up about a mere male dipping his oar into the culinary picture-- let me remind you that men still do represent one-helf of the home consumers.

Should Be--a Meal!

I've discovered why the men of Texas are strong and their women lovely. May this meet the eyes of my gracious Houston hostess whose splendid breakfast more than made up for two early morning hours in a Texas saddle! Her bounty provided preserved figs and cream-- plenty of calories, I suspect-- but grand.

the man next door

It's an adventurous excursion to saunter into a drugstore nowadays for an ice cream soda. Before you get out you may buy a gadget that revolutionizes your entire way of living.

The House Doctor Prescribes

Those aren't termites. Termites live on wood and other such fiber, and wouldn't eat thru the concrete. Moreover, termites don't build anthills. They live in long tubes which they construct for passageways. We suggest a thin re-coating of walls with cement to close any cracks.

Be a Kitchen Curtain Daredevil

Tackle Your TABLE-TOP Tragedies

IT'S NEWS TO ME!

1 Now, nested chairs! To save space, yet to be at hand, these four full-sized chairs fit over one another, may be used as a single chair! A bridge game? Just lift them off. Each chair's height is 30", seat depth 24". Upholstery is gay, roughly textured, made as a slip-cover. To remove it for cleaning, release the metal bottom-molding, which also acts as a chair glide.