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New foods
Minute rice is already-cooked, long-grain, white, rice. You add water and salt in measured amounts, heat to boiling, let stand a few minutes. Each grain is fluffy and tender-- just as though you had boiled and rinsed and coaxed the rice to perfection. Without any fuss, you can make expert Savory Browned Rice, Spanish Rice, Rice Pudding.
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Do we need Uncle Sam's aid in housing
HOW much longer will it be true in America that "A man's home is his castle"?
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Rock walls become gardens
DO you have a rock wall? You're lucky. Plant it. Right planting can improve the looks of a good wall, or hide the shortcomings of a poor one.
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HAVE YOU HEARD?
At last there's a muscle-saver that lets you kill weed trees and clear off brushy land without breaking your back over a grubbing hoe and ax. Chemists know it as a combination of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T (this latter I described in Better Homes & Gardens in February 1945.) Now as a brush killer, you can get it already mixed and ready for use. You apply it just above the base of the trunk or stems.
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Deadlier than DDT
It is called parathion (para-Thigh-own). Name any common insect harmful to plants, indoors or out, and the chances are-- with few exceptions-- that parathion will destroy it, utterly.
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For flowers to brag about--grow IRIS
When June starts "busting out all over," you can count on irises to give you a real bang. You'll get color-- great masses of it-- from these long-time favorite perennials. Now, thanks to the plant breeders, irises are available in more and different hues than ever before.
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A family room means more fun year round
Families are fun-- and they certainly can have good times together if you've a room where everyone can relax and enjoy himself. Hobbies, games, entertaining, even family snacks are more fun when everyone pitches in.
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BIRTH
Comprehend, if you can, how the most minute fragment of life-- a single cell, just on the fringe of the microscopic world-- can divide and redivide to make the billions of cells in the body of a baby. Think of the inordinate number of tissues and organs that sprang from this initial fleck of clay: the hair, the nails, the skin, the brain, the eyes, the ductless glands. Each step of the creative process represents a series of exquisitely intricate events, each timed to the other in hair-line sequence.
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House o' my heart
Our home, Balla Machree, is built on a high point above the Chagrin River, an hour's drive east of Cleveland. Trees on the surrounding hills hide it from everyone but flyers.
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Style on a budget
It was one of the those houses that are offered to the ill-housed third of the nation. It was a house of prewar quality only because the plan came off the drafting table when rough-plaster walls, arched doorways, and wall niches were in vogue. It was one of those over-priced houses late-comers to the wartime real-estate boom had to take or go back to their rented rooms.
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What do you do about Young Love?
All the good people in our block-- it is a typical Suburbia-- recently have watched the birth of a first love.
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How to judge a house
Thousands of houses will be bought this spring. And a large percentage of them won't be adequately inspected before the new owners commit themselves to years of mortgage payments.
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"Prewar" fire insurance won't protect you!
Most homeowners haven't the fire-insurance protection they really want and can't afford not to have. Your own insurance adviser can tell you-- if you'll listen-- about homes all around you which are grossly underinsured against damage or total destruction. Even less are these residences properly insured against other hazards which every day grow more common.
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Our house cost us Two years and three months
In the spring of 1946 we had nearly decided to buy my mother's home, where we were living, and remodel it. Contractors changed our minds: It would have cost $5,000 at least, and we'd still have had an old house.
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How to have peace at the circus
Have you ever taken your youngsters to a big event, only to have them pay more attention to the souvenir and refreshment sellers than to the performers? You planned the trip as a special treat, but it ended with everyone upset?
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Aluminum
Of all the miracle materials predicted for the post- war world, aluminum has come through in the most striking fashion. It is being used today in just about all the new ways that were forecast. And it is selling for the same price it used to.
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Braided rugs you can make
Braiding rugs isn't hard. Beth Jones of Los Angeles has made a lot of them-- out of old blankets and dye and heavy twine. Braided rugs are a fine thing under a pine table or in an Early American room. They hug the floor and don't curl or ridge underfoot.
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Get more out of your hand tools
You can't expect to get good work out of your hand tools unless you know how to handle them and keep them in repair.
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Give your baby a chance to explore
Playpens, high chairs, low chairs, walkers, and little tables with seats set in, each is fine for its purpose. But none of them was intended to serve as a place of solitary confinement for your baby. Yet that's what they become all too often.
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They bricked their lawn
After redesigning their garden for outdoor living, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Diddle are ready to offer you two bits of advice on your own project. The first is to start with a good, complete plan and follow it through without short cuts. The second is to emphasize simplicity and easy upkeep.
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Your dog and mine
Shearing your dog's hair down to the bare skin for so-called hot- weather comfort removes natural protection against insects, sunburn, colds and is uncomfortable. However, barbering a dog for streamlined appearance is something else.
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MAY GARDEN GUIDE
Feed lawns with complete plant food (about 25 pounds per 1,000 square feet). Plant centipede and St. Augustine grasses in Lower South, Bermuda grass and Zoysia matrella in Lower and Middle South. Spray lawns with 2,4-D weed killer.
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For flowers to brag about--Grow dahlias
Growing dahlias is a man's hobby. American males have taken this handsome flower with its multitude of types and colors as their own-- and will scream if their wives even try to pull up a weed near their dahlias.
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For flowers to brag about--Grow glads
Don't leave glads out of your garden plans for this summer. One season of growing them will let you understand why gladioli are a top favorite with so many people.
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The diary of a plain dirt gardener
May 1 In spite of cloudy chill, spring is coming on. If there weren't an evergreen in the way, you could see right from the stair landing that there is an intermediate iris coming into bloom in the back bed. There are bloom stalks shooting up on some of the tall bearded-- way ahead of schedule.
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Cash for your recipe
Win $10 with a holiday bread or stuffed-bird recipe. That's first prize in our new recipe contest. Twenty runners-up will receive $3 each, so you have 21 chances to win a cash prize.
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THE MAN NEXT DOOR
We've raised our goal for outdoor meals this year: 150 from May through October. (I feel safer now with a mosquito helmet to protect me from bees and yellow jackets.) But when it comes to carrying the food outdoors-- who knows?
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