August 1949

Norwich remembers with roses

Are you eager to beautify your home town but not quite sure how to start? The people of Norwich, Connecticut, can tell you what it takes.

See hew to get a better home

House that's cool all summer

A family's favorite room

New foods

Instant pudding will soon be on your grocer's shelves. It takes no cooking; comes in vanilla, chocolate, and butterscotch flavors. You just add precooked pudding mix to milk or fruit juice, and beat with egg beater or electric mixer about 30 seconds, or until thick and smooth. Serve with whipped cream, chopped nuts, or fruit.

Newest, surest HELP for HAY FEVER

A simple new drug called Trimeton (try'-me-ton) that alleviates hay fever, pollen asthma, hives, and other allergic conditions promises complete relief to millions of sufferers this summer.

It's NEWS to Me!

Are we getting anywhere with POLIO?

When several persons came down with polio after attending a Sunday school picnic at Council Bluffs last summer, Iowans became impatient because the experts didn't unravel the mystery.

HAVE YOU HEARD?

Dr. F. E. Gardener of the Department of Agriculture has found that trees fed with high-nitrogen plant food in fall store the nitrogen up until spring. Then it's all ready to go, long before nitrogen in the soil is available. This is as true of evergreens as other trees. I kept losing foliage from my Hicks yews until I tried high-nitrogen plant food. Since then, the hedge has resisted winter-burn as well as though I had moved it 200 miles farther south.

$50,000 worth of ideas in a low-cost home

It takes a bold hand to make a major improvement in smallhome design. Limits on cost and space stand as roadblocks. But look carefully at the low-cost homes pictured below and on pages that follow.

They wanted charm...

How to be a better in-law

1. Because you are sensitive about your rights as head of the family, you interpret many of the innocent actions of your wife's family as interference. You brace yourself against taking any advice from them. You look upon their natural interest in your activities as an attempt to dominate you or your wife.

Whom do husbands and wives blame for in-law trouble?

1. You hover over your married children, give them too much advice, and try to help them too much.

Start off with a small house

Keep four garden June-fresh in August

July heat and drouth bring out the worst in your garden. Plants that looked green and healthy in spring are drooping, and insects and plant diseases are at work. When things look bad, your garden needs help in a hurry. Below are 10 common hot-weather garden ailments-- and their cures.

Rooms with books are friendly rooms

Let time help you remodel

Time is as much a part of the home of the J. O. Smiths, near Greenville, Mississippi, as its bricks and timbers. Their home started in 1840 as a slave kitchen. Much of the material used for the additions came from the main house of the plantation on which their home stands.

Packed with color all summer and easy to keep

Your favorite bedroom colors

How to get more out of what you have

Imagine, tonight, a special meeting round your diningroom table. Some of the best brains in business are going to tell you how to get ahead at home. In your chair sits the president of a famous automobile company. Clustered about you are the purchasing executive of a railroad, the treasurer of a huge refinery, the personnel manager of a department store, plus cost accountants, forecasters, economists, production managers, and other specialists from successful businesses scattered all over the map.

The salad bowl--crisp, cool, fast to fix

The coolness and freshness a summer meal needs is in the salad bowl. Into the big bowl, break chunks of lettuce; slice in cucumbers, green peppers, and radishes; crumble in Blue cheese. And last minute add the garlic dressing to make the salad glisten. (You have the Tossed Salad Bowl at the right.)

Ironing made easy

Here's an appliance that does the job while you sit by and guide the work. An ironer is a combination of the familiar ironing board and the heat-controlled iron. The ironing board may be a flat surface (flat-plate ironer) or it may be a roll (rotary ironer). The iron part is called a shoe.

Cooks' Round table of Endorsed Recipes

Treats you can now to eat next winter

Try freezing these

What a waste disposer can mean to yon

"You wonder how you ever lived without it," says one enthusiastic woman of her waste disposer. And she is no isolated example. For this new, timesaving, garbageeliminating wizard ranks high on the list of valuable kitchen equipment.

What to do about your youngster's FEARS

Your boy's or girl's fears may seem foolish to you. But if you let him know you think his fears are foolish, you may make it that much tougher for him to overcome them.

Shelves give yon a lot for a little

Ronnd-the-clock dining rooms

It's not the size of your dining room that counts --it's how you use the space. The smallest dining room is a space waster when it stands idle all day Yet the smallest dining room can work around the clock if you plan its furnishings carefully.

Send them to school with an even break

It was a warm summer afternoon. Mrs. Brown poured a cool glass of lemonade for me and remarked, "I have Mary Alice all ready for school. I've gotten her the cutest dresses, and she got her first permanent wave last week. Now that she is all ready, she can hardly wait for school to begin."

How to handle a blowtorch

When you want concentrated heat for some building or repair job around the house, there is no better or cheaper way of getting it than with a blowtorch.

Confessions of cool cooks

Last-minute gelatine salad is possible if you put 1 cup of the water the recipe calls for in refrigerator freezing compartment. Dissolve flavored gelatine in remaining water heated to boiling; stir to cool. Add partially frozen cup of water, stir, and gelatine is ready for molding Finish jelling in refrigerator.

Don't be afraid of a homely house

Ticks are bad actors!

A score of years ago, ticks were "just another insect," abundant only in certain sections-- the north woods of the Midwest, the Southland's wooded or swampy areas, some of the Rocky Mountain districts, and a few others.

How to sell your house

When you sell your home to build another, or to move to a different city, you're entitled to its fair value on the current market. But getting that value is up to you, alone.

If POLIO strikes!

Headache is rare among children, especially if there appears to be little else wrong. When polio is about, any child with a bad headache should be hurried to the hospital for observation. Any youngster with fever, however slight, should be put to bed and kept there for at least a day after temperature is normal.

Two-fruit peach jams

These two-fruit jams, rich in color and flavor, blend frozen strawberries or cherries with fresh peaches. They will give variety to the selection of peach jams and conserves on your shelf. And you'll like the delicate suggestion of strawberry or cherry flavor on toast, baking-powder biscuits, or hot rolls next winter. Plan to make these at the height of peach season.

AUGUST GARDEN GUIDE

Sow seed of candytuft, hollyhocks, and yellow alyssum in Upper and Middle South. Plant quick-flowering, heat-loving annuals such as cosmos and zinnias for fall flowers in Middle and Lower South. Plant pansy seed in Lower South for winter blooms.

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

Aug. to Am heading in the direction of home from a long business trip and called Maggie on the phone tonight from Illinois. News was bad. Maggie is downright discouraged.

If plants look sick, check for red spider

Garden clinic

Let wallpaper dress up your bathroom

how-to helps

The fresh, plump fruits ripening in your garden now make "extra good" jams and jellies. And every batch will be luscious. The "secrets" are yours in Better Homes & Gardens new booklet, How to Make Perfect Jams and Jellies. Step-by-step photographs will guide you in preparing 59 taste-tested recipes, all proved favorites.

THE MM NEXT DOOR

My neighbor with the basement workshop was suspiciously calm when he discovered Somebody had used his wood chisel for a screwdriver. "I'm saving it," he said with a grin, "until the next time I get apprehended tracking mud into the kitchen."