July 1943

Home-Front Soldiers With Double-Duty Dollars

WE LIKE to have a good reason for the things we do. The fact that we are acting reasonably gives us assurance and tenacity, and saves us from the aimless and pathetic meanderings of the lower animals. But tho we act for a reason, it is seldom that the reasons that move us are as simple as they seem-- even to ourselves. There are big reasons and little reasons. We act in accordance with the big reasons, but we get a lot of satisfaction out of the little reasons, too, tho alone they might not move us.

The Man Next Door

Some of the neighbors have managed to wangle several nourishing meals from their gardens by shooting and eating the rabbits which nibbled at their vegetables.

The Diary of a Plain Dirt Gardener

July 10 Now, Brother, I hate to get back home from a long business trip at night and in the dark of the moon. It makes it hard for me to see how things are.

THE FACT IS--

Extra water-bath and pressure canners will be in your stores by canning season, but not enough to go around.

Be the Shopper Who Gets the Breaks

FRESH from visits with hundreds of merchants and salespeople in a dozen scattered cities, I'm fairly bursting with a shopping tip which harmonizes with the times like a bugle call. And that, in fact, is what it is: a rousing call for better behavior from every store customer in the land.

Get Your Storage Room Ready Now

EVERYONE who plans to carry in bushels of big smooth carrots and potatoes this fall, everyone who's growing beets, turnips, onions, and sweet golden-fleshed squash and sweet potatoes for winter eating, had better be ready to store them properly. Poor storage can cancel your summer's work.

Right Picking-More Food Less Waste

WHEN a commercial grower stakes his year's income on a field of tomatoes or a cherry orchard, he's mighty fussy about how this crop is picked. I found that out last summer, when, along with hundreds of other white-collar Californians, I helped to harvest crops.

This Snug House Stops Traffic

IT'S a house that's stopped traffic ever since it was built. Drivers shift to low gear with an excited-- "Now that's the kind of house I'd love to own!" Experienced homemakers with large, oldfashioned homes eye it enviously. It's exactly the house for a busy family.

Want Succession of Bloom?

TWENTY years ago I made my first garden. I was green then; greener than the greenest plant I grew. I believed that marigolds grew from "slips." I expected to create a paradise of bloom from neighbors' cast-offs.

Double Your Bloom

ARE you getting full value from your flower garden-- a continual or second period of bloom?

Room Sparklers FOR NEXT TO NOTHING

WHY BE STUFFY?

My Heart's in My Home

If Baby MUST Travel ...

PLANNING a trip this summer, Mother, with baby and the other little ones?

Pretty Salads and Desserts

JUST LOVE to have folks over? But you're awfully busy? And it's too warm to cook? Right you are, so let's start from there and have fun! No fancy time-takers. No last-minute range jobs.

FRIGIDAIRE Division of GENERAL MOTORS

Frosty Desserts and Summer Pies

LOVE lemon? Like sherbet? Long for a dog-day dessert that's satinsmooth, fluffy, and refreshing as anything? You'll echo our judges' vote for Super Lemon Sherbet, tangy Dish-of-the-Month from Mrs. Willis Reed of Carrollton, Ohio. It's $5 winner in our Cooks' Contest for Frozen Summer Desserts and Summer Pies, announced last December.

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Check Those Blighters

IN JULY the bright color of annuals planted among the vegetables cheers you when the sun is hot. They're nice to be near while you're hoeing, spraying, and dusting.

Tomorrow!

Dear Editors: We've always wanted to make a trip to Alaska. The recent building of the Alcan Highway makes the idea more alluring than ever to us.

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