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Filling the Empty Places in Life
"SPACE," said an astronomer, "is interesting precisely because it is not empty. I should find nothing to study in a void. But here, at night, I see the stars and clouds of stars that form our galaxy. I find great massy clouds of tenuous gas and random atoms between the billions of stars in our galaxy. Far away from our galaxy of stars, I find millions upon millions of alien galaxies, each with its unnumbered millions of suns, scattered thruout the five hundred millions of light years that lie in the range of our greatest telescope.
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Wartime Worries Dept.
Q When I came back home after only six months overseas, my 18-months-old baby didn't recognize me, and my three-year-old son resented his mother's interest in me, my intrusion into the home setup, and my attempts to make him mind. They plainly regarded me as an outsider trying to crash a family group that was quite complete without me. Is there anything I can do to overcome this during my next absence from home?
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The Man Next Door
Which of the sexes is the vainer is still a moot question. But I observe that many a wife who needs only a 60-watt light to perform her magic at her boudoir dressing table has a husband who needs at least 100 watts to shave by.
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"Gardening Is a Way of Life a Profoundly Happy Way of Life"
FOR better or for worse, I am an inveterate amateur gardener. I shall die one. I am a bit "touched" about every green-growing thing on earth. This queerness has not put me in any institution; it has kept me out of one.
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A Bath-Dressing Room
WE HEAR splashes from all sides as trick bathroom designs are dropped into the postwar pool. Some are nightmares of gadgetry, others are the same old stuff fluffed into an idiot's delight of kaleidoscopic colors.
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LEADERS in the ROSE PARADE
IF YOU'VE been longing for roses, opposite are two eye-catching floribundas and a baker's dozen of the newer hybrid teas people will be talking about. These are roses to dream of-- and possess at your earliest opportunity.
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Make Mine Roses!
WHEN men gardeners begin to take their "off-time" hobbies seriously they almost always decide to concentrate on one flower family. I choose the rose because for me it does everything: it fulfills every desire I ever had to grow flowers that can grip and hold my interest thru the entire gardening season.
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I Choose Chrysanthemums
I COULD hardly sleep the night after I first saw massed beds of the hardy outdoor chrysanthemums now known as the University of Chicago Strain. This was four years ago during the first week of October and those were the most beautiful mums I'd ever dreamed of.
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I'll Grow Delphiniums!
I LIKE to grow exciting flowers in my garden! Growing ordinary things never appealed to me. I think I first grew delphiniums because they were regarded as difficult. The challenge of that did appeal to me. And I like a garden that "grows up" to look you in the face. That's why now delphiniums rank first among all my fine flowers.
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Gladioli Get My Vote
I STARTED to specialize in gladioli six or seven years ago because I love color and love to give my friends bunches of the largest and most magnificent flowers they've ever seen.
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Pansies Are My Favorites
EVERY year seeds of nearly 4,000 different species and varieties of flowers pass over my desk, seeds for the greatest single collection of annuals and perennials in the world. Many of these I grow in my own garden, while others I check in trial grounds operated by specialists. Before the war it was my duty and my privilege to travel thousands of miles every year to examine and evaluate the latest masterpieces of the world's leading plant breeders. As far as was humanly possible, I have tried to see every important flower at its best.
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They Live to Eat
DUNCAN HINES, the all-American gourmet, has been telling people since 1936 where to get a good meal when dining out. His red, pocket-sized book, Adventures in Good Eating, packed in the glove compartment beside the road map in prewar days, now peeks out of the back pocket of dusty G. I. trousers and the crowded traveling cases of tagalong brides and wartime businessmen.
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For the Straight and Narrow
HEAVEN knows we're against the 40-foot lot. We'd like to stretch them all to a 60-foot minimum and pass a law prohibiting any more such narrow slicing. But the 40-foot lot is here to stay, so here we are to help-- if your lot is that size-- with a house that fits.
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Are You an A+ Parent?
AS REPORT card time nears, your child is excited, tense-- wondering, and perhaps worrying about what it will tell. How would you feel if you knew that you, too, were going to be marked on that card?
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Young Mothers' Exchange
Two more of you Mrs. George Schmidt, of Snover, Michigan, and Mrs. Helen Junna, 1027 East Fifth Street, Tucson, Arizona, want to hear from other mothers. Mrs. Junna would like especially to hear from service wives, as her husband is overseas.
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Big Things To Do With Small Potatoes
THE little fellow of the potato family at last comes into his own Big brother may have superior shipping and keeping qualities, and thus be better fitted for traveling about but small potato has definite virtues of his own. He's highly versatile, a speedy cooker. He's at least as chockfull of mealy goodness as his so-called betters.
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Basement Remodeling Nearly Doubles Living Space
DOES Reid Shultz come home from a hard day's work as a home equipment repair expert for the local power and light company and settle down to a good book, his pipe, and slippers? The pipe, maybe-- he has a collection of them worth $3,000 and gathered from all fiver the world.
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$2 Per Job Paid for Our Decorating
FOR less than 10 dollars we turned five drab spots in our home into compliment-catchers!
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March Outdoor Gardening Guide
THE more experienced a gardener you become, the more you want to work the growing season to the limit.
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The Diary of a Plain Dirt Gardener
March 1 This dawning day of the year's annual food and flower campaign was nondescript, neither lamb nor lion. Not a thing was done outdoors.
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It's NEWS to Me!
Shredded redwood bark is a year-'round mulch. Spaded into your garden, it keeps heavy, lumpy soils broken, and binds light, crumbly soils. It lasts several years. As a surface cover, it insulates roots from heavy frost. This is free of weed seeds, and fungus resistant.
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