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"Packaged" vacations
If economy, convenience, and freedom from worry mean anything to you, don't fail to investigate all-expense tours before making your final vacation plans this year. Because package tours enable transportation companies and hotels to do a greater volume of business, you usually get more for your money than by traveling on your own.
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Have you heard the Latest Garden News?
Tests at the great Askov station in Denmark show that chemical fertilizers will increase crop yields substantially over yields of plots where barnyard manure is used as the fertilizer.
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A doctor's R for family unity
If an apple a day will keep a doctor away, the people living in Winona County, Minnesota, and Buffalo County, Wisconsin, will have to eat six times as many to keep Doctor Heise at bay, because there are six of him-- 78-year-old Dr. William F. C. Heise, and his five sons.
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Splashy bloom-quick n' easy!
Pocket change isn't much to invest. But for as little as that you can buy yourself a fine adventure in color. Spend it on seeds of quick-blooming flowers. That does it. There's magic in seed packets, sheer magic.
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Modern planning, mellow charm
Your home can have a modern plan without demanding the newest of the new materials and exterior styling. Here in the Allard M. Graves' home you see the traditional, native materials of New England adapted to a floor plan that is far from traditional.
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Vacations off the beaten path
Looking for a different kind of vacation, one in which you and your family will find real adventure? One that will elevate your chins a bit higher for the next year, and put a little more spring into your step?
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House where your dollars count
This is a small house, as houses are measured. The amount of floor space (1,161 square feet without basement) stands as one denominator of low building cost. Another is the amount of lot needed to fit it on, and the 53x33 dimensions keep that figure reasonable.
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Color and built-ins "enlarge" a small home
This home has only 1,100 square feet of floor space. Looks larger? Here's the secret: effective use of color in the decorating scheme plus built-ins to take the place of space-stealing interior walls. The built-ins aren't just thrown in haphazardly to make more places to store things. They're combined with the furnishings to give the impression of walls. But they are lower than ceiling height, which contributes to the "open feel" so important when you have small space to work with.
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The tools you'll need--and how to store them
Good garden tools, kept clean, oiled, and in top working condition, can mean the difference between "a yard" and "the nicest place on the block."
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New foods
Tuna and noodle dinner comes in a 15-ounce can. You can fix a meal in minutes! Each can contains tender chunks of tuna combined with egg noodles. Heat on top of the range or place in a casserole, sprinkle with buttered crumbs, and brown in the oven. The label gives other meal variations to aid the busy cook.
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What a hedge can do for you
Need more privacy for outdoor living? A screen from stiff winds? Like to conceal a too-close highway or a faraway factory, or simply blot out your neighbor's garage?
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To protect your child from sex offenders . . .
Every day of every year, a sex crime against a child is recorded on police dockets. How many other attacks-- resulting in serious physical or psychological harm-- go unreported, we cannot guess. Boys as well as girls are targets for molesters. And spring is the season when these crimes reach their peak.
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Personal help in home building, remodeling, and decorating
When you're looking for ways to make your home more comfortable and attractive, look for this seal. It identifies the Belter Homes & Gardens Home Planning Center, where you can get personal counsel on your own special home-planning problems.
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Small house BIG on built-ins
There are several ways to make a small house larger. Most, however, only let the house seem larger. They add "visual" space-- a thing worth going after, certainly. But no matter to what limits the mind and eye are given freedom, one very hobbling fact remains: You can't walk on visual space.
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Rh doesn't scare me
There was a time when I'd cluck in dismay should one of the members of my Mothers' Club announce dramatically, "We're expecting trouble with our next. I'm an Rh negative, you know."
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More service from scissors and shears
Your scissors and shears are precision tools. They do important jobs. If you buy good ones and take care of them, you have a right to expect top-notch performance.
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Answers to your questions about Extra-size beds
If you've been wanting an especially comfortable bed that's longer than usual, or wider, or both, here's news of what's on the market. It's based on a questionnaire which Better Homes & Gardens recently sent to a representative group of manufacturers. If you've set your heart on some movie fantasy such as a circular mattress, you'll still have to pay fancy, custom-made prices. But if you'll settle for the sizes which are becoming most commonplace, here are the facts:
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Workmen are human beings, too!
Do repairmen, plumbers, carpenters, and other workmen do good work for you? Or do they produce a slipshod job? Do you have to complain about their work, or are you usually satisfied?
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How to take care of New fabrics
Perhaps you've seen it most often in lace or sheer marquisette curtains. Orion is also appearing either alone or blended with other fibers in crisp summer suits, blouses, dresses with durable pleats, and men's shirts.
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The Family Car Prepare yourself for an auto accident
"Believe me, if I have another accident, I'll not let a car move from the scene until the police arrive," says Jim McGovern of Moorhead, Minnesota.
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Where and how to get Decorating help
Here's news about the places where you can get interior-decorating advice, what kind of help you can expect from each, and what you should expect to pay.
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When you're eating out here's how
You'd like that dinner at a restaurant or hotel dining room to be a particularly pleasant one. Maybe you're just treating the family, or maybe you're entertaining friends. Either way, you want everyone to have a grand time.
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Help your teen-age drivers
The first part of this story-- one most of you read with shock in news accounts-- is not pleasant to recount. Mr. and Mrs. Murray J. Moore were returning home from an evening of bridge with friends. They had stayed late; it had been good fun-- the kind of relaxation they rarely enjoyed. You see, the Moores had 11 children, so time and money didn't often permit them to enjoy outside recreation. But they were a close, affectionate family, and Mother and Dad had told the older children they would be home shortly after midnight.
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How to need in your job
You tell yourself you want to succeed in your job. You'll find no short cuts, no pat solutions in this article. That's the conclusion we came to after interviewing 9 of the 10 men who were named by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce as the Ten Outstanding Young Men in the United States in 1952. (The tenth man, George de Carvalho, of the San Francisco Chronicle, was on assignment in Europe and could not be interviewed, but his record shows no evidence of easy success.)
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Its growing pains don't show now
You've seen them-- those houses that show each stage of suffering from growing pains. A room has been needed and added. Another bit of living space was required, and it was tacked on. Like something forgotten when the house was first built, each successive addition reveals its beginning and its end.
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"It can't be done . . ."
Not the least of your problems in getting an alteration or innovation in your home is combating the arguments against it. For there will be arguments.
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Now's the time to . . .
Replace any dead rose plants with potted roses late this month or early in June. Keep newly seeded lawn areas darkened with moisture to insure the best germination.
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The diary of a Plain dirt gardener
Man 1 Lilacs are coming into bloom here and yon-- and I'm too busy to stop and figger out variety names or look them up in the old planting records I made when I set them out.
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How to catch a pocket gopher
The pocket gopher is a vegetarian. And, if he lives in your part of the country, it's likely to be your vegetables he eats. So you'll want to do something about it.
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THE MAN NEXT DOOR
"The most aggravating tiling about the younger generation," says neighbor Merle Fish, "is that I no longer belong to it."
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