November 1943

Wartime Thanksgiving on the Home Front

TODAY we thank God that we have food and clothes; that there is a roof over our heads and a fire in the furnace; that no enemy struts in our ruined streets or shuffles thru the ashes of our crops. We are grateful that we may labor with hand and mind, without the spur of fear of the concentration camp or the firing squad.

DAD'S GAME ROOM Solved Their Fuel Problem

FIRST off, don't start feeling sorry for Dad (Harold Hahn, of Kansas City, Mo.), for he's proud as shucks that "his" room is voted such a whale of a success-- even if, at present, it's not exactly the "men only" hideout he'd plotted.

LATE TIPS ON Wartime Living

When pails, garbage cans, and other scarce household containers begin to rust out at the bottom, you can extend their life. Just make a bottom liner of wood or hardboard to fit snugly. Calk against leakage with ordinary calking paste.

WATCH OUT FOR War Nerves!

YOU'D be surprised how many mothers have said to me recently, "I don't know what has gotten into my youngsters! They're fussy, impatient, and disobedient. I can't do a thing with them."

Ideas FROM A HOME A Hobby FURNISHED

ONE evening, about two years ago come Michaelmas, a young man by name of Frank Brach, walked into a neighborhood Make-It-Yourself shop, showed the instructor a miniature grandfather clock, and said, "I don't know the difference between a hammer and a sack of nails, but I want to make this clock in life size."

Santa With a Saw--That's you!

POSTWAR NOTE: How to Week-End All Week

AT FIRST my prewar week ends lasted thru Saturday and Sunday; but gradually they expanded to include Friday afternoons and Monday mornings. And finally they grew so vigorously that the beginnings and endings came together; and my week-end retreat became a summer cottage.

Giant Fruits From Midget Trees

MOST of Nelson Gaskill's time is taken up with law business in the city. Only the Saturdays and Sundays are free for gardening at his father's home place in the village of Moorestown, N. J., and there the available planting space is limited.

Make These Gifts

THEY'LL TREASURE IT if you make it-- any gift recipient values that personal touch. And too, every job you do, every item you concoct yourself saves a worker's time, spells thriftiness. These clever gifts, many partly made already, cost little, are swift fun to finish. So match them to your gift list-- and set your fingers flying.

Packaged Gifts, Easy to Complete

Those pretties in the center photograph at right come ready-stamped with full directions. Just a touch of your needlework and they're beauties! Most are a dollar or less, thread not included. All come postpaid. Put the savings into War Stamps.

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Comfort and Beauty Can Cost So Little

IT'S nimble jugglers and sleight of hand artists we homemakers are getting to be these busy war bond buying days! But we're pulling beauties instead of bunnies out of the hat, concocting home-furnishings fillips for small change, outfitting whole rooms (and handsomely!)

HOW TO Garden IN Stone

SAYS Herbert West: "Winchester (Massachusetts) was founded in 1638, and in the course of time the wilderness was tamed-- all but one spot. That was a mess. In the highest hill was an abandoned stone quarry, at its base an ancient swamp adorned with forest litter, boulders, and ferns. Thru this swamp flowed a brook fed by seasonal springs.

Refinish That Woodwork Yourself

IS THERE a room or two in your home that's blighted by battered, dingy woodwork? Well, you can either groan and bear it until professional painters get back on your job, or you can pitch in and refinish it yourself-- with assurance of handsome results.

Will You Live in a Prefabricated House?

EVER since the great depression hit us back in the early '30's, we've been hearing about a new industry all set to lead us back to prosperity as the automobile did after the first world war. They called it "prefabrication."

A Home Full of Young Ideas

THE E. A. PFEFFERS of Ponca City, Oklahoma, brought a realistic approach to their problem when they built their new home there.

HERE'S A Weighty Subject Mother!

DOES it worry you new mothers to know how your baby is doing? Whether or not he's getting enough to eat, whether or not he's growing and developing as he should?

Young Mothers' Exchange

Keep toilet tissue handy. A small shelf over the bath table is a handy thing, and handier yet if you have a toilet-paper holder fastened under it, containing a roll of facial-type toilet tissue. Use it when you change the baby, to wipe his chin when he drools, etc.-- Mrs. J. S. Burnette, Lakewood, Ohio.

HOW TO USE SOYBEANS

IT USED to be that most of us new soybeans only as the source of brown liquid which we poured over chop suey. Maybe we encounered an occasional can of crunchy teen sprouts.

Good Cooking Won These Prizes

FISH are certainly the family's best pals these meat-rationed days. But just plain, bland fish can taste pretty pale, no matter how you cook 'em. So mighty glad we are to present the swellest perk-up for fish we've gloated over to date-- Deep Sea Sauce, $5 first place winner in our contest for Gravy, Sauce, and Root- Vegetable recipes run off last April.

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Here's a Contest YOU Can Win

Boy, what you couldn't do with a fat $10 bill-- or even a three dollar prize! Well, here's your chance, fellow cooks-- and let's have a big turnout of you men, too! The winning recipe will nick our cash register for $10, with $3 paid out for each of the 20 next across the finish line.

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ONE BRIGHT LITTLE Bedroom-$10

TWO weeks-- $10-- and a dumpy downstairs "catchall" to conjure into a charming bedroom for some very special guests! That was my poser and here's how I solved it.

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Tomorrow

Dear Editors: We want an airplane. Even in high school, my husband was interested in flying. For a while after our marriage, we had to concentrate on household things-- and when we finally were able to plan for flying lessons, war came along to stop our plans.

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the man next door

So far as I can detect, the commonest kind of restlessness that infects our soldiers overseas is a feverish yearning to get home and be domestic around the house.

We Moved in With Our Eves Shut

That, in brief, is what happened once we'd bought a nine-room house that was way past its prime. But it doesn't explain why we passed up all the neat-but-small bungalows for a creaky antiquarian. You see, after nine years of being jam-packed into a four-room apartment, we weren't in the mood to count our space in inches. Besides, a small city like South Whitley, Indiana, has few houses for sale these days, so it isn't advisable to wait until a "For Sale" sign is tacked on the Perfect Home.

NOVEMBER Outdoor Gardening Guide

THE INDIAN SUMMER days of November give us time to put the finishing touches on our fall planting and winter mulching, and do much toward next year's garden.

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THE DIARY

Howdy, folks. I must report, in case you failed to see recent monthly accounts here, that I'm just getting over an operation and visit to the hospital that ended less than a month ago. Doing fine, thanks, but no great reserve of strength as yet. So if my work at timely garden matters is not too strenuous, you'll understand.

"Six New Ways With Pork"

For the home you're planning

More for Less

It's News to Me!

"How to Bake by the Ration Book" is a give-away cook booklet. Using minimum amounts of precious eggs, sugar, shortening, have a cake as light, tender, and delicious as in pre-rationing days! One quick-mix wartime cake is a miser with your minutes.