June 1942

WHAT ABOUT Building and Remodeling NOW?

WHAT'S the situation about building and remodeling today? Can you build a home-- or is residential building absolutely banned? Can you remodel your present home-- and if so, to what extent?

THE DIARY of a Plain Dirt Gardener

If you should ask why our dog goes around on three legs today and David has one hand bandaged, the answer is that I failed to report an exciting event yesterday; to wit, that war has reached our neighborhood. Our dog and a strange one engaged in battle on Neighbor John's rear lawn yesterday.

The Home--Foundation of Great Causes

SOMEONE has told me that bricks are made and are laid into a wall today just as they were in ancient Mesopotamia 2,000 years ago. With all our invention and science, a brick Avail built yesterday looks just like one in Nebuchadnezzar's palace in Babylon.

AT HOME IN THE "White" House OF EMPORIA

WAY BACK IN 1893 young Will White married pretty little Sallie Lindsay, and took her out West to honeymoon. When they'd been there just two weeks, there came two wires-- one to tell young Bill that he'd been fired from his reporter's job, and the second to announce that every cent they had went in a busted bank.

THE EMPORIA GAZETTE

Maybe you haven't heard a lot about William Allen White, because he's a man who prefers to keep in the background. Actually he is a man who has helped chart our nation's history --and whether or not you like it-- has guided your own personal thinking and acting.

Five Months of Good Eating

Out Where the Roast Begins

JUNE Indoor Gardening Guide Let's Put the Plants Out

Outdoor Gardening Guide

IN JUNE it's clearly evident that the garden is just a reflection of the gardener as the moon's only light is a reflection of the sun. Without a good managing gardener there'll be no design, no continuation of bloom, no shapely, vigorous plants.

Saved by a Pretty Face

THERE was nothing wrong with the two big houses that a pretty new face wouldn't cure, the architects decided. Two different architects and two different houses, but the same problem-- each house had a good inside plan, but a face that was heavy-jowled, dismal, and forbidding.

Confidentially, I Like a Riot

ONE DAY we found we owned a field on Cape Cod. Wild roses and Queen Ann's Lace grew there in the summer, blue asters and goldenrod in the fall, and bayberry all the time. East of us was the sea. The salt spray blew over our dunes-- and there was nothing between us and Spain. But we had no house.

HERE'S TO SUMMER on Your Porch!

Furnishings SCALED IN PRICE AND SIZE to the Under $6,000 House

A Home Full of Living

"WHEN our youngsters and their pals started tagging our living-room Grand Central Station, we oldsters decided it was high time we took steps!"

WHAT'S NEW IN Dry Walls

Tables THAT SOLVE YOUR SPACE PROBLEMS

Read the Label on the Can

HOW do you buy a can of food? Do you phone your grocer for "one can of peas"? Or pick it up at your cash-and-carry? Or stock up on whatever pack is "special today"? Or choose it by the descriptive information on the label?

Lifetime Food Habits Start at 12 Weeks Mother, it's up to you

WHY did America, overnight and with a bang, become nutrition-minded? Here's why. When draft board and army doctors began examining selectees, we learned with a terrific shock that we hadn't been doing the job of child-feeding the past 20 years that we thought we had. Far too large a proportion of our young men were handicapped in some physical way that could have been prevented if, from early infancy, they had had the right kind of food and formed the right sort of eating habits.

"MAKE OURS Quivery Strawberry Whip!" CHORUS THE JUDGES

UPROARIOUSLY overboard went our taste-and-testers for Strawberry Crown Whip, from Mrs. L. J. Carr, Lake Mahopac, New York. It's proud Dish of the Month and $5 winner in our contest for Gelatine Desserts and Tossed Salads, held last November.

It's Your Turn to Take a Prize!

HAVEN'T you, up your culinary sleeve, a bang-up way to serve leftover meat, or a grandest-ever orangey dessert? Then this contest's your dish, friend cook. It starts today, runs to the end of June, winners to be announced next January. Topnotcher nets $5, with $1 for each of the 20 next best.

It's the Snap That Counts!

LET your new shirt stretch or shrink when you start to wear it, and you're hopping mad! That's not true of a spanking new house, tho-- the more it stretches and shrinks, the better you'll like it. If that sounds a little incredible, just talk to the young George E. Brownes, of Hamden, Connecticut.

Did You REALLY EAT Today?

OF COURSE you ate. But what? There's a whale of a lot more to health than just filling up. And Mother, it's your job to give your family their must-for-health foods every day. No one balks at Orange Gelatine Custard or crispy green salad bowl. Yet they're crammed with what it takes. Tricks? You bet! The more the healthier! Eating right? Here's for scoring yourself--

the man next door

Oddly enough, a child's tricycle always looks more decorative in someone else's living-room than it does in your own.

MURDER in the garden

IT'S STRANGE that none of the victims whose cases I'm about to report were struck from behind or run thru with a sword cane-- neat and trustworthy methods of dispatch, as all Crime Club addicts will testify.

Let's Go ANTIQUING

THIS month's meeting of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Antiquers will please come to order!

I Pleat Wallpaper for My Fireplace Fans

SOME folks pleat newspaper fans for fireplace decorations-- but I've a better idea. I use wallpaper. Every proper basement or attic has a few oddments of brightly patterned paper stored away. When you've exhausted these, the next port-of-call is your store's wallpaper department.

Are You a Back-Yard Blighter?

ONE kindly lady visitor dubbed our back yard a "wonder garden," and far more than she knew, she hit the spot! We're always wondering what's going to grow, what's going to come up in the wrong place, what we're going to do where nothing came up.

LARVEX

Why Not Grow Cress?

DID you know that if you have a shallow, running stream on your place, you can grow water cress for your table and lots to spare, if you like? It will grow from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Canada thru the South if its home is sparkling cool and clean.

Get Your 1941 Home-Garden Index Now!

SUNKEN GARDEN Solves Grading Problem

YOU don't know what to do with that sloping back yard? You want more privacy-- a nicer background than clotheslines, yawning garages, and other unlovely elements of your own and your neighbors' life? You don't know what to do with that gully, or that old cellar hole?

Article

ITS NEWS TO ME!