October 1951

If I could be 35 again . . .

Now that I'm 62, I can give any younger person one sure-fire prediction about his or her future. No matter how good life looks to you at 36 or 43, when you get to be 60, you're going to look back and sigh: "If I could be 35 again...!"

Summer bulbs are worth saving

You'll be doing the thrifty and smart thing if you dig and store your gladiolus, dahlias, and tender bulbs that can't survive freezing.

COLGATE RIBBON DENTAL CREAM

GENERAL ELECTRIC

What the teacher will never tell you

If your youngster lacks interest in school or doesn't seem to be doing well, it's easy to blame the teachers or the school system. But it may be you who's letting him down.

Have you heard the Latest Garden News?

Without ever discovering what causes brown blight in lettuce, U. S. Department of Agriculture scientists have bred varieties which will eliminate this disease in lettuce growing.

Who says teasing's funny?

Recently, we called on a mother whose boy was an only child and inclined occasionally to tease his playmates.

Shutters make a flexible wall

Oak Flooring Leading Strong Decorating Trend

What is your favorite color?

"I'm an extrovert, but I wouldn't be found dead in a red living room!" And, "I'm not an arty intellectual, but I'm nuts about yellow. What do you say to that, Mr. Birren?"

How to give your home a good front

Attractive from the street, inviting to come home to--that's the way you want your home to look. It's your purpose whether you're making plans to landscape a new house with good lines, or want to make the best of one that is too tall and badly proportioned. Or whether you're changing or only adding to plantings already there.

Have a bigger, better tulip show

When you buy tulip bulbs this fall, you're buying color, excitement, and pride that will be yours next spring. The sleek brown bulbs look much alike. But not the flowers. From one bulb may come a squat red double in full bloom with the early dandelions. From another you'll get, four to five weeks later, a 30-inch stem topped by an eggshaped, blue-based flower as trim as though made of wonderfully colored pink wax. So-- right off-- do recognize that in tulips you can have great variety.

Turn on all the lights!

And let the family judge. Can you really see? Do you, Dad, have a good light by your easy chair? What about the kids? Are they nosing their history books under a "cute" little dim bulb, straining to read?

For work and play!

You can build well with masonry

As you plan your new home, have you ever thought about building a masonry house? A house that uses masonry not just as a thin veneer, but as the basic building material from the lowest course of the foundation clear on up to the eave line?

What's the real truth about them?

What do the hormones, ACTH and cortisone, mean for your family's health? How effective are they? In what diseases? What are their dangers? How available are they? What is the real story?

ACTH and Cortisone

"But--I didn't see the child!"

"I didn't see the child-- until it was too late to stop!" Honest as they are, these words, spoken by each of hundreds of drivers who backed over and killed a child in a home driveway last year, might as well have been left unsaid. They are a sorry consolation for those who loved the accident victims, worse for the driver who knows he should have seen, regardless of legal responsibility.

Last garden flowers

You can find a beauty in your fall garden unmatched in any other season-- rich reds, yellows, bronzes in a range of gorgeous hues. So accent your rooms with brilliant autumn colors. If you don't have enough flowers in your garden to make a full arrangement, use hawthorns, crabs, and berried shrubs with their jeweled fruit to fill in.

Kitchens you'd love to call your own

Is your child glued to TV, radio, movies, or comics?

Does this story sound familiar? The moment he arrives home from school, Mike pitches camp in the middle of the living-room floor, manipulates the knobs on the television or radio set with astonishing skill, and settles down. If he had his way he would be there until bedtime-- and beyond.

Contest for cooks

Your tricks with canned meats and quick breads may win you a prize in our new recipe contest. If your recipe wins top honors, you'll receive $10. The other 20 winners will be sent $3. The prizewinners will be pictured in the May Cooks' Round Table.

For the boys in your family

Garden Clinic

When leaves are left on picked apples, the fruit has not been picked correctly. If you jerk the fruit off, you tear away part of the fruit spur.

How-to Helps

... Rust Model Home Kit--... you can build your home in signature-- design and decorate it yourself-- on any blueprint you ... See how you like that ... you plan to build, before ac... construction. Kit builds any ...-- costs only $4.95.

Don't let a budget cramp your style

Put your fire in a corner

We read out loud to relax

Do you remember, in the play I Remember Mama, the scene in which Mr. Hyde, the boarder, reads aloud to the family from "The Tales of Two Cities"-- as Mama calls it? It is a nostalgic scene-- the coziness, the laughter and tears, the togetherness of the family-- so old-fashioned, so simply impossible at today's tempo.

All the charm of a country cottage

Give your home a lasting lift

You know how it is: The neighborhood small fry are kicking up a rumpus in your living room on a rainy day. A ball flies around, a trike skids through on two wheels, toy trucks and cars beep and bump, the baby forgets that crayons should be used only on color books.

Garden Clinic

ABCs of mantel arrangement

A guest room your entire family can use

ELJER CO.

TRY PETS

The card tacked on the door read "No visitors for one week," and people in the hallway lowered their voices as they passed. Inside, there were the hushed whispers and the tiptoe movements of a sickroom. In one corner, the patient was doing as well as could be expected of a mother who had recently given birth to sextuplets.

Remodeling put Space and sparkle in this kitchen

How would you redecorate this room?

This kitchen grew to family size

Finish off your basement

If your home is typical, it has a basement. Is it a pleasant place for work and play? Chances are it isn't.

Looked at your bathroom lately?

If your bathroom hasn't changed in the past 10 years, you're missing much comfort and convenience. Today's home-planners are taking a long look at the things a bathroom can do, with wonderful results. For example:

Utility rooms should be comfortable

Stairway face lifting

Have you an attic or basement stairway you keep hidden behind a closed door? Here's the workshop project for you. When it's done, you'll take off that door so that no one will accidentally close it and conceal the results of your work.

You can become A handy handyman

A nail is a nail. Some men will applaud the sentiment and let it go at that. But if you enjoy making things, if you aspire to a bit of real craftsmanship, a nail is more than a nail.

Inside it's up to date

MATICO TILE FLOORING

Anyone can install a lock

Make your basement earn its keep

If your home has a basement, you have a good bet for extra living space. Have you surveyed your basement recently to ferret out its possibilities?

THE PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Let your hall say "hello"!

Let's call a spade a spade

Give your house a light touch

Garden clinic

Should you get another job?

Cover up the years

A house that will "fit" for a lifetime

Snack scheme for young raiders

Have you ever taken out a box of raisins to make a pie and found that your kitchen raiders had nearly finished them? Ever opened the refrigerator at night and found a milk shortage for breakfast? Have you needed crackers for guests and found all your nicest varieties gone and only a few lonely crumbs in each box?

Your pet and mine

This is the "distemper season" for 5-to-10-month-old puppies. Make no mistake about distemper.

Here's a room that's planned for family fun

Ways to keep your silver gleaming

It's a BIGGER Red Feather this year!

October Garden Guide

Keep leaves raked off your lawn and keep grass mowed as long as it grows. You may still sow grass seed but better stop after mid-October.

Build your terrace for half the money

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

Oct. 1 Summery weather, and as I walked back to survey our domain a whole flock of birds flew away from the sunflowers. I gravely fear most of them were sparrows. One, though, looked very much like a mama cardinal.

High window strip four ways

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

The prevailing winds are now from the north, and it makes me smile to see how my neat-as-a-pin neighbor to the south looks when he sees my extra leaves being blown into his yard. Then I remember that the neighbor to my north hasn't touched a rake yet.