July 1946

America's Opportunity in a Hungry World

THIS fall's harvesttime once was counted upon by many authorities to ease the world's food crisis. But the easing, if any, will in all likelihood be largely statistical, and not something quickly converted into meals for the hungry. For a long period to come, perhaps for a year or more, a vast multitude of human beings will still languish in the shadow of starvation, and great numbers of them will die.

NEW CHEMICALS Blitz Mosquitoes--Chase Chiggers

IF YOU were a soldier or a sailor in the South Pacific theater, you probably used the amazingly effective G.I. mosquito and chigger repellents. More than 300,000,000 two-ounce bottles were used

Cheap Wiring Is Expensive

BACK at the turn of the century, electricity entered a few American homes on two small wires. Those two wires permitted one electric light in each room, and proved adequate until 1915, when the electric iron and "piano lamp" gained favor.

The New Sprinklers AND WHAT THEY'LL DO

We Took to Our Wheels

1896 "Mother screamed, father swore, and the horses shied at our first encounter with a horseless carriage. Tho we'd seen pictures of rich folks riding around in imported French runabouts at Newport and places like that and had heard Uncle Will describe the 'Famous Duryea Motor-Wagon' exhibited by Barnum & Bailey last summer, this was a terrifying experience, at least to Mother. Bicycles-- Americans owned 10,000,000 of them-- were bad enough, with village sports pedaling like mad halfway across the state, and nice girls coasting down byways in shorter and shorter skirts, even bloomers!

New Under the Sun

Redspider-mites routed-Azobenzene, a 1946 introduction, quickly kills redspider-mites on phlox and other garden perennials. The azobenzene is used as a dust containing 10 percent of the new chemical. Its spectacular lethal powers against the redspider-mite were discovered by Dr. Robert Haring, of the National Aniline Corporation, and Dr. William E. Blauvelt, of Cornell University.

Help for Human Sardines

My MOTHER, now 79, has just gone to bed in the children's attic playroom. My daughter, her husband, and that most remarkable baby of all are packed together in a small bedroom.

A Home for Easy Housekeeping

LIKE college students cramming for term exams, progressive designers of homes are studying overtime these days in search of new methods of easing the homemaker's daily round of household chores. Less housework, obviously, means extra hours of leisure for the varied activities of contented living-- playing more with the children, golfing or movie-viewing, playing bridge, reading, or even keeping a diary.

What's Wrong With These Pictures?

All on a 50-Foot Lot

You're Lucky if You Have a Slope

New House

THE postwar home, many a Sunday-supplement reader is convinced, will be a wonderful place, crammed with gadgets to make living as easy as falling off a log. In the immediate future, how much of that picture is attainable fact, and how much fiction?

Cape Cod in California

They're Electric! Portable! 1946!

If You're Freezing This Summer

YOU can freeze more food with consistently better results if you'll follow the suggestions on these pages. Here are little- known factors and some commonly overlooked ones which will add materially to the success of this summer's freezing program.

Take Time to Have Fun With Your Baby

HOW much fun do you have with your baby? Do you really enjoy him, or is he so much work that you don't have time?

New Recipe Contest for Your Cooking Imagination

OUR contest this month asks for molasses and corn-sirup recipes developed from wartime sugar rationing, and foreign favorites gained from peacetime exchange of ideas. All cooks with imagination please apply! Mail that special recipe of yours in right away, so we'll have plenty of time to linger over it in our Tasting-Test Kitchen.

Open-Road Vacations

IF YOU are wondering how you can possibly get the change you need in only two weeks' vacation time, or on a meager budget, or with a tired car, or with a family of various and assorted tastes-- then this is the summer to try a spot trip.

Wipe Out Those Worries!

YOU don't have time for a breakdown, do you? Yet if you're an ambitious and conscientious mother, if you're rearing a family, doing most or all of your own housework, finding little time or energy for contacts outside your home then this thing called a nervous breakdown can happen to you.

We Turned a Wall Into a Window

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We Made These Lap Trays

Young Mothers' Exchange

IT ISN'T as if you weren't having enough problems with your child's eating, sleeping, and toilet-training. Playtime, too, you find, raises special problems of its own.

We Take the Kids Along

FAR too much of what you read about travel implies that you do it blissfully on your own, while the kids, if any, stay home with a delighted grandmother or an efficient nurse.

Every Prospective Mother Should First Own a Dog

MRS. ROSALIE PEIRSOL, a mother and the secretary-treasurer of the Philadelphia Great Dane Club proposes that every prospective mother should own a dog. It can be added she practices what she preaches.

Paths That Say "It's Cool"

Everlasting Flowers

This Kitchen a Break

Most everyone has heard about the "straw that broke the camel's back." Well, something like that happened in the kitchen of the Daniel MacKinnon home in Newton Highlands, Massachusetts. Except in this case the last straw happened to be a backbreaking sink, and the back belonged to Mrs. MacKinnon.

Good to the Last Blossom

Keep Your Garden on the Job All Summer!

Tailor-Made Trees

I GROW the familiar types of trees, but keep them tiny-- only 2 to 20 inches high after a third of a century of growth.

News in Juvenile Furniture

THE DIARY of a Plain Dirt Gardener

July 1 My entire garden activities on this not-so-hot Sunday were limited to walking up and down the paths and making notes of items of newsy interest.

July Garden Guide

In JULY, plan to keep your plants from suffering from heat and from water loss, to control insect pests, and to plant for late fall crops.

New Sprays Kill Flies

The Man Next Door

At moments of exasperation, I'm convinced that announcers practice their radio blurbs by talking down to their little baby sisters or their own helpless infants.