February 1948

Dwarf flowers that perform like giants

When one man is down on the dumps

UNTIL you took a look over the back fence, Wilmington, North Carolina, always was a pretty and picturesque small-sized city. The charm ended there in a rubble of rusty cans, weeds, and assorted trash.

It's NEWS to Me!

Cart-type sprayer for the home gardener is mounted on two small rubber-tired wheels. The tank holds 3 gallons, with air pressure up to 100 pounds. Pushes easily, eliminates carrying a heavy, wet sprayer from place to place. The 3-nozzle boom covers a large area with heavy "fog," or a longer hose and single nozzle may be used for directional coverage.

It's a knockout!

SOMETIMES the only way to redecorate a room is to knock out a wall. If you have as pleasant a garden view as the Harry Freibergs of New Orleans, the best thing to do is put a window in the resulting hole.

Breakfast nook with a bright outlook

This city garden is only 17×33 feet

Do you want to live in the country?

IN THE last two months 14 different city folks have tried to buy a piece of my farm, a wooded hill that looks down on the Raccoon River where it loops thru the Cheecobie hills.

Do you want to live in the country?

TREES grow tall in the country, and so do trifles. If you're moving away from the city, you are in for some delightful surprises-- and for others that are merely surprises. For. one thing, you'll discover how many common, ordinary things are not done for you beyond the city limits.

Don't sell grandpa short!

"I LOVE my grandmommies from the table to the living room to the swing to the corner, that much," 3-year-old Sherry informed me. "And I love Grandpa as big as the church."

How to expand your house-I

Should you build in '48?

FOR the Adamses and the Klinghorns, and for thousands of others facing the same problem, Better Homes. & Gardens has encouraging advice. We realize a period of inflation like the present is no time to buy anything you can do without.

Fifteen ways to grow your roses

Kitchen to live in

REMEMBER how you used to love Grandmother's kitchen? It was the friendliest room in her house. There were a big table and a crackling fire. There was plenty of good food, served easily here where it was prepared, and good talk that lasted long after dinner. Mealtime was a family event, with a few friends asked in to share it.

How to fit a

The garden comes first at the Barclays

His ideas may fit your home

IN HIS lifetime an architect usually builds one house into which he puts his heart and soul. It is his own. Not that he holds back when working for a client. He doesn't. But in his own house, an architect can test all his ideas, can experiment to his heart's content, and has only himself and his family to consider.

You can have A colorful table for little money

SO MANY of your letters tell us: "My store says it may be another year before I can get my chosen pattern of silver, dishes, and glassware. Can you suggest something inexpensive, but harmonious, that's available now? After my good furnishings arrive, I'll use the inexpensive things for everyday."

How to plant your house front

Will hormones really help you?

SOMEONE has figured that the amount of thyroid hormone you could put on the head of a pin is all that keeps you from being an idiot.

Pork for your platter

When a boy or girl has trouble talking

BOB HARRIS is the star forward on the basketball team-- he'll probably be an all-stater. But he can't be a debater, talk at class banquets, or try for the lead in the junior play.

How to dress a bay

$70 you can win

WE'VE $70 to offer you cooks with good casseroles or ways to serve grapes differently. Sender of best recipe will receive $10 first prize and will be elected September Cook-of-the-Month. Twenty contender cooks will be awarded $3 each and Honor Roll listing.

Kitchen canisters: New sizes, designs, colors

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$60,000,000 for Europe's Children

Bathtime can be quick and comfortable

Blueprints for your platter meals

Your housekeeping is easier with these

Smart cook!

Smart cook!

New-style strawberry jam

Put office helps to work at home

How to butcher a house plan

Here's why I believe in baking!

SOME women buy a new hat (preferably red) when their morale sags. Mine gets a boost from baking a feathery cake.

No Water for Them

We didn't invent the luxury bath

Do it with color and pattern

Watch your dog's step!

THERE'S hardly a day when we fail to read about somebody being sued for one reason or another. A healthy percentage of such litigation is based on dog troubles, such as dogbites, dog destructiveness, chicken-killing, trespassing by dogs-- and so on. What's more, some of the judgments are for sums running into four and even five figures-- to say nothing of court decisions that call for destroying the offending animals.

NOTES FROM A PSYCHOLOGIST'S SCRAPBOOK

What should you know about shots?

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how-to helps

PUT that "handy man around the house" to work for you! If he can pound a nail, he can make these useful and decorative shelves for your kitchen or dining room. Complete easy-to-follow patterns with detailed instructions are available for a Convenient Kitchen Shelf for pans and plates, No. 3.405; Dutch Colonial Wall Cabinet to show off a collection of fine old dinnerware or glass, No.

So you don't like cracker-box modern

Electric outlets where you want them

DOES your house have as many electrical outlets as you need? Or do you have to use double and triple plugs in the outlets you do have, with wires strewn along the baseboard and under rugs?

How to build a window cornice

THE cornice over a window has long been a favorite with interior decorators. It takes the sting out of many an ugly window, and improves the over-all appearance of a room. In case you men don't know what a cornice is, it's the projection above a window which hides the rod that holds up draperies.

How to expand your house-II

A THREE-BEDROOM home would sound like heaven to most families, but there are times when even three bedrooms aren't enough.

How to expand your house-III

Give your kitchen old-fashioned warmth

FEBRUARY GARDEN GUIDE

FEBRUARY usually brings a few days suitable for getting outdoor work done. It's well to check your perennials to be sure that the frost hasn't heaved the roots out of the soil. Most of this kind of damage occurs in February or March. Iris, peonies, columbines, foxgloves, and other fleshy-rooted plants-- plus all plants newly set last fall-- are especially likely to suffer. You can prevent injury by applying a mulch to the soil on a day when the soil is still frozen.

Home for garden tools and family car

MOST garages are idlers. After the car backs out in the morning, the garage has nothing to do until night. But the garage at the Edwin Speidel home in Providence, Rhode Island, is no loafer. It doubles as a tool house and garden workroom.

GARDEN CLINIC

THE DIARY OF A Plain Dirt Gardener

Feb. 1 Winter weather again brought the birds back in droves this morning. Seeing that my box of scratch feed is about depleted, I made a trip over to the elevator to get another bag. And gosh, how it costs.

GARDEN CLINIC

You can easily protect your plant by covering the soil with waxed paper, as shown. Then, no matter how thoroly you spray your plant, little of the chemical will reach the roots.

Your soil no good? Neither was this

WHEN the Albert Jaegers built their Rhode Island home at the edge of an old quarry, their back yard was just a soggy flat, surrounded by a half circle of bald, rocky cliffs from which stone had been sliced and carted away.

A QUIZ "All God's Chillun Got Shoes"

Virginia's old and likes it

LIKE the grand old lady she is, the state of Virginia is fond of reminiscing. And, grand-old-ladylike, she expects you to listen.

Loan Wolves

Thru the Shops

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

Those newest books on American sex life are based on frank answers by 12,000 men and 12,000 women. These must be either people of fantastic candor or fantastic sense of humor, prone to pull a researcher's leg.