January 1947

Among Ourselves

We've seen so many pictures of General Dwight D. Eisenhower that we almost feel we could say "Howdy, Ike" if we met him on the street. But we can't say the same for Mrs. Eisenhower, rarely pictured in newspapers or magazines. So when this picture of the general and his wife came across our desk, we thought we'd pass it on to you.

I Couldn't Find an Apartment

I OPENED the wide garage doors and peered into a cavernous hole. The plastered walls were cracked. Spider webs framed three pairs of high casement windows.

Let's Remove All the Brakes on Building

THE building industry, at long last, is shucking off the government's "emergency" controls which have hampered it since the end of the war.

Feed Your Dog RIGHT!

IF THERE'S one thing that can start a hot discussion and a flow of lively words among a group of dog owners-- it's the subject of dog feeding!

It's NEWS to Me!

The House on the Cover

Rochester Wins Round One in Its Housing Fight

How would you like to rent, at $45 a month, a new four-room apartment in a garden-type subdivision, complete even to an electrical garbage disposal unit?

I Want a Basement!

I WANT a basement! Don't tell me I'm behind the times. I'm not. I'm fairly young. I have modern ideas. When our new house is built, it will have every modern convenience. But it will have a basement.

LET'S Grow Up IN 1947

A MAJOR portion of the world's people are looking to the United States of America for leadership. They want what we have-- national independence, personal freedom, and a decent standard of living. They hope somehow we shall assure them these things. As the war drew to an end, their hearts almost burst with confidence.

We Pick the Winners

Four Bedrooms Fit a Family

TO APARTMENT dwellers, four bedrooms are too many. To large families, jammed into small homes, they sound like heaven. Children, too, need the privacy and responsibility of "a room of their own."

Five-Purpose Dining Room

Socialized Medicine--Bad Medicine for You!

THIS is how it was in Britain. The doctor got back to his office just at 2 o'clock. "How many?" he said to his nurse.

Life Is Easy at the Eulbergs'

Their Hilltop Home Is Close to Heaven

New Linens: How to Buy Them

Bedspread colors are no longer limited to washed-out pastels and grayed tones. Their combinations are livelier than anything loomed prewar. And patterns show much more imagination. If you're undecided what type spread is best for your room, let's do a little advance shopping:

When Yon Build

We Lowered A House Without Moving the Floor

Famous Family Failings

LIKE I said to my wife after we had been to see the new Beardsley baby, the Beardsley nose is the sort of beak a field mouse wouldn't wish on a barn owl, and yet all the Beardsleys were standing around congratulating one another because Nature seems to have hung one on the kid.

SPEEDY PRESSURE SAUCEPAN MEALS

Teaching "Please" Takes Patience

IF YOUR child's manners, or lack of them, worry you, take a look at the adults around him. Too often we grownups, while extremely polite to each other, forget courtesy when dealing with children. Aunt Ethel, who remarks in front of 4-year-old Jane, "It's too bad she isn't pretty like her sister," has no right to be shocked when Jane refuses to kiss her good-bye.

Cash Reward for Recipes!

THINK of sunny August days. Remember those tall, tinkling iced drinks you sip in the summer as you sit under a back-yard tree. Recall the sniffs of fragrance coming from spiced fruit juice, candied apples, or minted pears in your August canning kettle. Then jot down your fondest reminiscences: that most refreshing Summer Iced Drink dor flavorful Fruit Canning Specialty.

Cooks Round Table of Endorsed Recepies

Tips to Take You Places

HALTED by the war, winter-sports-excursion specials are back in full force on most of the roads serving winter resort areas. Some railways still hard-pressed for equipment are not operating special trains, but are catering to skiers, tobogganists, and other snow enthusiasts on regular trains.

A Promise of Things to Come

Poor Little First Child

NOT long ago I ran across a delightful cartoon of a combination crib and bookshelf. My husband looked at the cartoon, laughed, looked at me, and then we both laughed. That bookshelf-crib was just about what we needed for our first child.

What Do Yon Know About Glass?

Den and Dining--All in One

JANUARY GARDEN GUIDE

JANUARY is the month of new seed catalogs and the time to plan the 1947 garden. Get your plans, tools, seeds, and equipment ready, but don't rush the season. Carefully time starting of seeds indoors to have plants at their prime at the proper time for setting out.

They Skate in Their Own Back Yard

Fireplace Fnrnishings-They're Back!

THE DIARY OF A Plain Dirt Gardener

Jan. I Checked my dwarf fruit trees, where I haven't put the winter protective shield of wire screen around them. See that rabbits have been nibbling at one. Here's a job to be done without delay.

New Under the Sun

Adding fluorine to garden soils isn't likely to make the food more valuable in preventing tooth decay. Fluorine in drinking water helps make better teeth, but its presence in foods seems unimportant, according to the U.S.D.A. Plants seldom absorb much fluorine from the soil, regardless of how much is added. The standard phosphorus fertilizer, superphosphate, already contains about 1½ percent of fluorine, and practically every mixed plant food contains superphosphate.

Five Star Terrace Unit

HERE'S a terrace planned to put the family fun spot to practical use day and night, in all seasons. It was designed for this month's Belter Homes & Gardens Five Star home (page 32) by James C. Rose, widely known for his work as a landscape architect.

Merry-Go-Round

ONCE there was a little girl named Tidy who lived in a charming cottage that stood on the sunny side of a looking glass.

A Department for Children

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Door Accessories and Door Chimes

The Month

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

I'm trying to help my Dream Girl convince the children that they ought to eat warm breakfasts in cold weather. But they behave as if it were just another trick of the older generation to get the upper hand.