February 1952

Is your town taking steps to save your child's teeth?

Like most American adults, you've probably spent many unpleasant hours in a dentist's chair. As your dentist ground, filled, extracted, you've looked ruefully at the results of neglect, poor diet, or soft, faulty tooth structure.

What's wrong with this family?

How much does college really cost?

Maybe your youngster won't be ready to go to college for some years-- but when that time comes, will you be prepared to meet the bills? Will you be able to afford $1,000, $1,500, or $2,000 annually out of your salary for four long years? Actually, very few of us in these times can pay such extra charges out of our current incomes. Therefore, it's important to start (if you haven't already) to save systematically for your child's education.

A Colonial home borrows Modern ideas

Your house can grow with your family

If you're short on living space for your growing family and short on cash for remodeling, you're in the same fix Betty and I were in before we remodeled. You might find some easement for your growing pains and an idea or two from our story.

Summer furniture you can make

You'll need little time, only a few pieces of lumber, to build a chaise longue, complete with removable trays, for your terrace. Use 2x4 lumber for the frame. Make frame 62 inches long, 27 inches wide. With back rest 2 feet long, chaise will accommodate a standard-size 24x74-inch cushion.

There's living space in your garage

When your children's doctors meet

Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics held its annual meeting. Its membership includes about 3,000 of the outstanding specialists in the fields of children's physical, mental, and emotional health in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Central and South America. This year, the Academy met in Toronto, and a great number of member and nonmember doctors attended.

Two good-looking stairways

How to be a SMART MONEY MANAGER

What value are you getting for the dollars you earn in a year? Do you find money for the things you want most? Do you know that many people have more to show for their money than others whose incomes are much larger?

How to grow Wonderful roses

Seven first-floor rooms on a city lot

Three bedrooms and two full baths aren't luxuries. They're necessities which too many of us, with families of four or five, do without.

Dress-ups for just plain windows

The way you dress your windows will do more for your decorating scheme than any other single thing you can do in a room. And for less money.

Add a kitchen to your living space

From an airport control tower, you can see every movement on the field and in the air. The tower must overlook all activity it controls, or it's useless.

MEXICO

Mexico has breath-taking mountains looming over magnificently colored, barren deserts; lush, tropical jungles pushing against palm-fringed, curving Tahitian-like beaches; quiet, dry, mile-high cities so deep in the tropics that every day is like a day in spring; modern cities built on ruins that were teeming with a high order of civilization when Europe was barbarian and North America a wilderness. It is a continent in miniature, with most of Nature's wonders encompassed within a few hundred miles.

Do you know the Fancyleaf geraniums?

Convenient built-ins

How convenient is the storage space in your home? How often have you said that if you ever build another home you're going to have this or that type of storage unit? Here's a family that did something about it.

Glamour in a basket

Yon can get new rooms for old

Hearts and flowers for your valentine

Cozy supper by the fire

You welcome your guests with the cheeriness of the freshly lighted, crackling, leaping, roaring fire. And as both the flames and the talk settle down in a great, good contentment, you-- the easygoing hostess-- bring in this cozy fireside supper. This is to be a happy and memorable evening.

Fireside cooks have fun!

Prizewinning one-dish meals

DINNER'S SERVED. And the folks gathered around the fire, or enjoying the view, or watching TV, don't have to budge. Aren't you the smooth hostess!

Make the most of your mixer

What's new--and neat--in handy sewing boxes

How to get neat and stay neat

Good lubrication cuts repair bills

Think of your car as you would a $2,000 watch. Would you give it to any jeweler to check? Definitely not! You'd first make a careful inquiry of every jeweler in town-- after all, a $2,000 watch! By the same token, spot a capable attendant to work on your car; he's the man responsible for your big investment.

Party tricks with avocados

Wood panels won't warp

Yon save steps with a split-level plan

Get more shelves for less than $10

Storm door blown off?

Your pet and mine

Plants can help problem windows

FEBRUARY GARDEN REMINDERS: Now's the time to...

FINISH planting dormant roses in Florida and along Gulf Coast. Prune roses already established after last killing frost-- about February 15 along Gulf.

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

Feb. 1 Forepart of last night, a combination of sleet and snow peppered down on top of the coating of ice on the ground. This froze into a hard crust. Then the rest of the night just plain, old-fashioned snow fell, until there was a layer of three to four inches on top of the crust.

Have you heard the Latest Garden News?

A famous Swiss specialist now has found a way to produce seed of the better hybrids on a fairly large scale. It will be offered for sale through American seedsmen for the first time in 1952.

Winners in One-dish Meal Contest

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

That handsome Wargowsky lad who came courting our Rosie was so bumble and well mannered that I began to wonder. But a little probing explained it; he has grown up helping support his widowed mother.