June 1952

Should we run our schools on a 12-month basis?

A few blocks from where I live stands Washington High School. It cost nearly 2 million dollars to build; it houses nearly 2,000 students. Each day, during the school year, they crowd the sidewalks when school is out.

Timely summer pruning pays

What's wrong with this family?

First get the space you need--the "extras" can always come later

When you build a house on a budget these days, you'll have to make compromises. But you'll be wise if you compromise last on getting the basic space you need for your family.

Kitchen cupboard extraordinary

"I love America but--"

Have you heard the Latest Garden News?

Streptomycin may prove to be the long-heralded "injection" to cure plant diseases. Dr. John Mitchell, plant hormone specialist at the Beltsville, Maryland, station of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, reports that bean plants treated with streptomycin sulfate failed to develop "halo blight," a bacterial disease.

You'll like these new ideas in Summer furniture

Here's a "We done it" triumph

When it comes to the talk stage of "building a home yourself," you can cut down the daydreamers with a scythe and bring them home by the carload.

IDAHO

How would you and your family like to travel into the heart of America's never-never land-- where a river flows through a lake, airplanes land on Main Street, people still live in covered wagons, and river fish grow so big they're pulled out by horses? Where can you see such unusual sights? In Idaho, the nation's least-known, but most spectacular state.

Color adds sparkle to outdoor furniture

Now's the season when-- all up and down the block-- lawn and porch furniture is hauled out from storage and set up for its summer premiere. The kids place it under the shade trees for afternoon pop parties; Mother and Dad arrange it to catch the first evening breeze. It's the acme of solid, stretching comfort-- but how does it look?

Your outdoor living can be two stories high

Ways to show off June bloom

Pot plants are your answer!

Some mighty fine fences!

"Good morning" colors for the family bath

Three bedrooms, 1,000 square feet!

Yes, it's still possible to get something pretty valuable for practically nothing. That "something" is a good floor plan when you build a home. Materials, equipment, and floor space being equal, it costs you no more to build a house with a good floor plan than an obsolete, inefficient cracker box.

New-style refrigerators--Look inside

Planned by a husband who knows his way around a kitchen

June eating at its best--Luscious strawberry shortcake

Keep that true white look

Room for work and play in your basement

Budgetsavers you can build

Something new in an outdoor fireplace

Decorate with lamps you can make

You can add character and brightness even to matter- of-fact furnishings with a lamp you make yourself, providing you don't sacrifice good taste for your home creation. If you keep the task simple, it doesn't always require professional skill.

All your luggage with room to spare

We go to camp with our kids!

How did your family spend its vacation last summer? Did Dad go fishing with the boys, and feel guilty for abandoning the family?

Custom-made to save space

Decorating ideas that "remodel" your home

Your pet and mine

Homemakers' question box

Q What makes a layer of liquid on my cream pies after the meringue has browned?

Up-to-date use of space

Get more beauty from your silver every day

Use it constantly. That's the simple secret to adding mellowness and depth of color to your silver. The more you use it, the more beautiful it becomes. The richness of lovely, antique silver seen in museums today is due to generations of daily use-- proof that it's good sense to use your silver as often as possible. Don't store it away for special occasions. Live with it!

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Get the most from your Plant-food dollar

If you're looking for plants that grow vigorously and produce blooms, fruits, and vegetables to make you proud-- and what home gardener isn't?-- here's a formula that can make all the difference in your success. It's plant food in water solution!

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

Color vacant spots in shaded borders with potted impatiens, fuchias, tuberous begonias. Sunny spots will take geraniums or coleus.

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

June 1 Summer is here in earnest. Roses are popping open. Peonies are making a brave show. Iris is still in its prime. Oriental poppies make bright spots.

Let's look ahead

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

June is one of those "Oh what a wonderful morning!" months. I don't even resent my kids' gathering outside my bathroom door to mock my singing about it.