March 1952

We can vaccinate against T.B.

In a little Hungarian village, a nurse, wearing a "Danmark" shoulder patch on her gray uniform, paused while vaccinating a ragged urchin and looked out the window of the drab dispensary. Starting at her desk, the long line of toddlers, teen-agers, and adults carrying babes in arms stretched clear across the dusty town square.

Walls should be more than just boundaries

There may be a Fortune around your home!

Have you dreamed of hunting for buried treasure-- an iron cask filled with "pieces of eight"? Most of us have, at one time or another. Thousands have attempted to find the buried loot of pirates, have engaged in expeditions to faraway places in the hope of finding riches. Thousands have invested their life savings in mining or oil ventures, hoping for rich rewards. Few have been lucky, for it would appear that more has been sunk into the ground than has ever been taken out.

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Plane talk for the handyman

Decorating's easy when you follow the rules

Have you heard the Latest Garden News?

New chemicals added to the insecticide DDT promise to step up its killing power. Scientists at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California, report that "synergists" combined with DDT have knocked down from 50 to 200 times as many house flies as straight DDT.

Built-in ideas for your scrapbook

I'm a stepparent--but not an ogre

Not long ago I happened to glance at the headline of a personal-problems column in the local newspaper: "Stepchildren usually spoil second marriages"

Hide your hobby!

They walk in the dark

I'd never seen Pontiac, Michigan, before in my life. So when we got out of the station wagon on a side street and Fred Maynard, trainer at the Leader Dog League for the Blind, tied the black blindfold over my eyes and handed me the dog's harness, I almost called off the idea.

It's NEWS to me!

PRIVACY is worth all that it costs

Privacy is a wonderful thing. With it, a one-room hunting shack becomes a castle. Without it, the most palatial house in town offers about as much peace as a squirrel cage.

Here's a private world on a city lot

Their level lot was bordered by two alleys, nearby neighbors, and a well-traveled street. So privacy became an immediate concern when Mr. and Mrs. Russell D. Cole of Brookings, South Dakota, began planning their new home.

You get three times as much

The day you get a plan that gives you the best use of every foot of land you own is a day to mark in red on your calendar. If, along with use, the plan gives you good looks and privacy, you're in great luck.

Northern California

The Northern California sweep is a wonderful combination of sky-high lakes (Tahoe) and live volcanoes (Lassen); of mountains that are a sum total of what mountains should be (Sierra Nevada cloud-nudgers in the 10,000-14,000-foot class); of the oldest living things (the redwoods which were old when Christ was born); of beautiful ocean shores which remind globe-trotters of Cornwall in some places, of the Riviera in other spots, and which look out to infinity-- or in the direction of China, depending on your imagination.

You can have a Beautiful lawn this summer!

Building yourself the best-looking lawn on your block is like scoring a run in baseball. Touch all the bases and you make it count!

Two stories still give you

Despite the current popularity of the one-story, Ranch-type house, there are still many substantial points in favor of your building a two-story home. Costwise, spacewise, and for privacy, a two-story house remains one of the best buys for your money. Here's why:

Lilacs-everybody loves them!

When you think of lilacs, don't you think of flowers you want to bury your face in-- so cool, so smooth? Don't you think of little puffs of a perfume that's sweet but never overpowering? Don't you think of flower-studded bushes growing in spots you'd like to return to?

Planned with you in mind

Beautifully fashioned for today's tables

Don't forget fruit!

Easy to serve--on a tray

Charming, friendly, dramatic! That's what tray parties are. Next time you ask folks in for supper or lunch, make it a tray buffet. Everyone will love the casual setting. They'll go for the informality of fixing up their own little tray tables or of helping themselves from the huge plastic cartwheel, at your left.

How to get a gay kitchen eatspot

Perfect 7-minute frosting with new, luscious flavors

Here's the cover frosting and cake

Delight your family with rich, chocolatey Fudge-Nut Frosting--spread generously between the layers of your best cake and swirled into billows on top and sides. Make the cake from your favorite packaged mix or one of the recipes below.

Moneysaving meals with 1 can of corn

frankly fancy How to cook lobster tails

Moneysaving meals with 1 can of tuna

What's wrong with this family?

Hang it!

Relax, parents!

As a parent, you know the importance of accepting your youngsters as they are, not as you wish they might be. But do you grant this same tolerance to yourself? Or are you holding yourself up to such impossibly high standards that you frequently feel inadequate, guilty about the way you deal with your children?

Something extra in a small home

Eye-catching rooms

It's a screwdriver

As with all workshop tools, there are basic principles of screwdriver use. You will do a better job if you follow them.

Could you use a living-bedroom?

Why do I have to take lessons?

It is Thursday afternoon, and you are having the usual argument with Marilyn about her music lessons. "All the other kids are going roller skating, and I want to go, too," Marilyn complains. "June's mother doesn't make her take lessons. Why do I have to?"

Storage tricks for your odds and ends

Stamps, erasers. Paint a muffin pan and put it in the top drawer of your kitchen desk. Sort stamps, erasers, rubber bands, thumbtacks, paper clips, and change for the paper boy into separate cups.--

Garden Clinic

If your child shows signs of Selfishness or discontent

Our 10-year-old daughter brought her friend, Ruth, home the other day. Ruth lives in a nice house on the next street. There's a television aerial on the roof, and I've often noticed a good-looking, new car parked outside. But what impressed Ruth at our house was our old-fashioned, battle-scarred piano. "Oh!" she said to my daughter. "You have a piano! Do you take lessons? Gosh, I'd give anything if I could take piano!"

A place to take it easy

How much should car repairs cost?

A veteran mechanic, who until a few months ago was the assistant service manager of a large Philadelphia garage, gave me a candid rundown on some of the gyp tactics which were practiced at his garage and in a number of similar auto-repair shops in other states.

Garden clinic

Linen storage where you make it

Playhouse for the entire family

Make the most of your nice things

Figured walls or backgrounds should be taken into consideration in any grouping. In the picture on the left below, notice how the leaf arrangement in the vase on top of the cabinet seems to be lost in the pattern background. You need a large, plain object to stand out against the wallpaper, as in the other picture. This is the same principal you use when hanging pictures on a highly patterned background-- good, wide mats so the picture won't get lost.

Your rooms are larger than you think

Here is how to handle a useless porch

Choose a plan to fit your family

For the family with children, convenience and happiness are big goals in planning property for living.

Take your color scheme along

Want to get the most out of your next shopping time for items for your home? Here's some advice from the directors of Home Planning Centers operated in cooperation with Better Homes & Gardens. The Centers are in stores in all parts of the United States.

For a garden plus-- start seeds indoors

You'll be ahead at least five ways if you start flower and vegetable seeds indoors now. You can grow the newest and best varieties-- exactly what you want-- in preference to standard kinds you can buy as plants. You will save money, and your plants will produce earlier. They will be ready to set out when you are ready. And you'll have fun doing it.

Let power save you garden work

Time-- that's the rub for more and more home gardeners these days. You want a handsome property that comes only with giving lawn, shrubs, trees, flowers the care they need to look their best. Yet the demands of family and business interests compete for your time-- to the point where you wish a day had more than 24 hours. You think about easier ways.

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

Look over pegged-down climbing roses with soil-covered canes. Scratch a little soil away; if buds are starting to grow, remove soil but leave canes on ground awhile before tying up.

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

March 1 According to the weatherman, this should have been a dismal day. But hurray, the sun broke out from under the dark clouds right after breakfast. The cardinals were whistling away so cheerfully. All outdoors looked just like spring.

Know when to make a garden?

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

With both of his sisters impatiently expecting calls from their boy friends, Sonny hung impishly around the other evening just so he could dash to the phone ahead of them when it rang. He won. It was his music teacher reminding him that he had a lesson to make up this week.