August 1948

Try patterned shades at dull windows

How and when do you harvest?

They vacation in their own back yard

SPENDING the summer at home can be a heap of fun. That is, if you have a summertime playground in your own back yard. You don't need a big lot. You do need careful planning to fit your space to the wants of your family.

Your kitchen can be practical ...and glamorous, too

ONE new idea can work wonders in your kitchen. Whether it's a doublepurpose table, a trim shelf for knickknacks, or a tool rack-- whether the idea adds usefulness or glamour only, it gives your workaday spirits a boost.

Decorative tape

How-to for the handy man

How to replace screen wire. This time of the year, it isn't unlikely that you'll find holes in your window screens. Maybe you'll decide to put new screening on all the frames. To do a good job, you'll have to stretch screening tightly. The sketch shows one way to do the job in record time.

Garden clinc

Let them help you while they're little

"PLEASE, may I wipe the dishes, Mommy?" When my Sandy, age 4, first offered to dry dishes,

Beware of second mortgages!

If you're thinking about buying a house, this is for you. Beware of the second mortgage! If you don't, you'll be sorry.

Color will stretch your budget

Summer Meals

Every wall does double duty

Decorating how to go about it

IF WE'D ask 10,000 of you to describe your ideal home, we'd get 10,000 different answers. True, some of you would agree on a general type of house: Cape Cod, ranch house, or modern. But that word home means vastly more than the architectural design of four walls and a roof. Home includes colors and patterns you like to live with... furnishings and fabrics that fit your way of life... space for hobbies... comfort and convenience for every member of your family.

Vines--quickest cure for that bare look

Art is like vitamins

THO your child may show no sign of being artistic or of ever becoming an artist, he needs art experience. Art is just as important to your child's emotional development as vitamins are to his physical development. That's what Victor D'Amico, director of the Educational Program at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, says.

This is the ice age

Six kitchen ideas for the handy man

How to help your child be orderly

"I KEEP at Tommy all the time, but I just can't get that child to hang up his clothes!" wails the mother who fancies she can teach orderliness by preaching. Actually, of course, her persistence is driving Tommy toward disorderliness. You can't force a child to be orderly. But you can allow him to be.

First aid for furniture

White rings that mar table tops are usually caused by heat, steam, or moisture. If you can stop the action quickly, you can avoid the ring. However, if coasters or hot pads arrive too late, here are some remedies. If one doesn't work, try the next.

Maybe you can add a porch

OUTDOOR living is a fine idea. We all enjoy fresh air and sunshine, and spend as much time as we can in the open in pleasant weather. But to do so in comfort, except on those rare days when the sun and breeze are just right, most of us want shelter from wind and sun and insects.

And the kitchen has room for dining and laundry

AUGUST GARDEN GUIDE

ANNUALS show their worth this month. The hot, dry months force them into full bloom. Help keep the show in good order. Pick off the faded flower heads as regularly as you can. Making seeds puts a big drain on the strength of your plants. Many gardeners don't realize that they can get a second big display of blooms if the old flower heads are kept cut off. There's also less chance that your plants will self-sow. Seedlings seldom come true to their parent variety when winds and insects can cross-pollinate the parent plants.

How to grow BIG poppies

CONTRARY to what so many gardeners have said to me, Oriental poppies are easy to grow. They have only a few simple requirements. Filling these, tho, is most essential. I have 400 Oriental poppies in my garden. I follow three rules:

Glamor from three glads

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

Aug. 1 As last month ended, I was just in the process of putting the rose beds in shape. I had hoed out the weeds, loosened the soil to let in the air, and applied a dose of plant food.

Kitchen stool

Working with concrete

DOES the thought of working with concrete frighten you? It shouldn't. With a few tools and a few rules, you can do your own concrete work. Not just patching, but jobs like building walks, steps, retaining walls, steppingstones, and flagstones.

Your dog and mine

In view of your desire for the experience, we'd say go it alone. Then, too, presence of a stranger is often upsetting to the female. Be calm and 'comforting. Most important thing is to break sac at each pup's nose as it makes its bow into the world, to allow for immediate intake of air (the moment a youngster leaves its mother, it's on its own in every way, including breathing).

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

"Nothing tires a woman so quickly," muses Les Gowan spearing a weed not allergic to 2,4-D, "as just to sit still and watch another woman being very, very charming."