September 1945

Not Too Great a Price

A CENTURY ago, Michael Faraday, the great physicist, was showing to a guest in his laboratory a curious thing: whenever an electric current began to flow in a wire placed near a compass needle, the needle was diverted. The bored guest said, "Very interesting, but of what use is it?" Faraday countered, "Of what use is a baby?"

Now We Can Have Hyacinths Again

HYACINTHS can bloom again and sweeten gardens all over America next spring.

Heat Saved Means Dollars Saved

FIREMAN, heed that furnace! Your job of operating a home heating plant with coal is almost a national trust this winter! East of the Mississippi, coal use is restricted by the Government to 80 percent of normal-- almost as severe as oil rationing, which runs about 75 percent.

Is This the School of Tomorrow?

HAL OWENS was a typical American boy, bursting with energy, full of ideas and hipped on machinery.

Yours for Simple Comfort

TYPES of houses have come and gone. Each has had its share of popularity as well as its stiff-necked resistance. But Cape Cod has never had to fight to keep its favor.

EVERGREENS

EVERGREEN plantings around your home can give you lasting enjoyment if the evergreens are properly selected and planted. It's the improper selection that brings ninetenths of all dissatisfaction with their use.

The Form Is Familiar but The Face Is Changed

RUGS Take Care! Repair!

RUGS are not only one of your most expensive furnishings, today they are practically irreplaceable! Protect them, pamper them, mend them at first sign of wear. Their good looks will generously reward your effort.

GARDEN IDEAS Collected in California

CALIFORNIA GARDENS unite in their variety to throw a new light on outdoor living for visitors from east of the Sierras. On small properties most Californians waste no space on wide, green, shrubbery plantings maintained for the sake of gaining privacy. Instead, a man's likely to erect at least a lath screen along his garden on the lot line and then proceed to put every foot of his property to its own use.

A Room in Cool-Warm Harmony

Divorce IT HITS 1 OUT OF 5

NO DOUBT your marriage has brought you much that you did not expect and that you do not like. This is the way of life in every maturing experience.

BART WALL--Soldier to Civilian

THE OFFICER leaned against the rail of the hospital ship, straining his eyes westward for his first glimpse of the United States. When the first low line of land became perceptible, his shipmates broke into a cheer, and the officer joined in, his throat swelling and his vision clouding up.

Make Christmas Boxes Good Travelers

SENSE is a greater gift than sentiment when you pack for shipment overseas. Do pour out your heart in a Christmas letter, but pick your gifts for good traveling ways, and pack them to get there!

TO BUILD GOOD SLEEP HABITS

MAKE YOUR Washer, Range, Refrigerator

IF YOU are the smooth operator we think you are, you know these equipment preservers by heart. Check your list against ours anyway. Now is the time when every new trick you can add to your store will pay big dividends-- in better and longer service for the old, in greatest satisfaction when, at last, you can once more buy new.

Bet Your Recipe Is a Prizewinner!

We're fishing again-- with big money for bait! The Cooks' Contest now starting offers $10 first prize, $3 each for the 20 next in line, for Fish Dishes, and for quick Muffins and Coffee Breads. Winners will be announced and selected winning recipes will be printed next April.

Make It Yourself

Collector's luck

Here's Mrs. Dienner's "Barnyard Collection" of blue and white milk glass animals! Prized pieces are the plates with fleur-de-lis borders you see on the top shelf with the owl pitcher and a dog-covered dish; the blue chickens and ducks roosting with the large white duck next below; a rare egg dish with a setting hen sharing the third shelf with duck dishes and "S"-bordered plates; an unusual swan dish, a dog dish, and lattice-bordered fruit compote on the lowest level.

Here's an Idea!

4 Steps to Bouquet Beauty

What to Do for Specific Stains

How to Divide a Peony

HERE'S a man with a spade. He likes good peonies. And he has good peonies. They grow well for him because he has full sun, a deep clay-loam soil, and the know-how that covers the simple requirements of peonies. He sets his new ones carefully in late September.

Versatile Chrysanthemums

WHY not end your growing season, even in a northern garden, with the biggest show of flowers you've had all summer? You can do it with the newer types of chrysanthemums.

THE DIARY

Sept. 1 Theme song for today is "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." For brother, believe it or not, I was out under the beams of a full moon, dusting the late potatoes and the roses. The roses are needing it badly, because with recent rains, blackspot has begun to rear its ugly head.

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September Gardening Guide

SEPTEMBER is a transition month. Harvest and storage are high in the minds of food gardeners. And the temptation to make just one more planting is great. Kale sown now will give some greens late this fall and with a little protection will produce early next spring before other greens can get started. Unless a very early freeze hits them, spinach, radishes, onions from sets, and leaf lettuce will still produce a crop outside.

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