Ready your car for summer driving
Preparing for your summer vacation should certainly include a complete checkup for the family car. It's a good idea to have this checkup made a week or 10 days before you start a trip. Then, if there are additional adjustments to be made after the car has been driven, you'll have time to make them. This will reduce the possibility of having to stop at a strange garage along the way.
Read ArticleYou can't beat poppies for color
Oriental poppies are the peacocks of the late-May and early-June perennial flower border. Though they appear dependably and on schedule, their splendor never fails to thrill.
Read ArticleKeep your old refrigerator, too
When you buy a big; new refrigerator, think twice before you trade in your old one. It's paid for, and it can be a tremendous bargain in easy living and convenience.
Read ArticleHave you heard the Latest Garden News?
Immersing wilted cut flowers in cold water seldom revives them. But cut the ends of the stems and immerse them in hot water-- about as hot as your hand can stand-- and flowers should revive quickly.
Read ArticleHow will we fight polio this year?
There were more than 55,000 cases of polio in the United States in 1952, the worst year in polio history. What is the prospect for 1953?
Read ArticleRelaxed living in a small house
Take this month's Five Star home from its breath-taking setting in the Black Hills of South Dakota and you have a sound, two-bedroom house that will serve the year round in any location.
Read ArticleBritish Columbia
British Columbia is a chunk of the good earth that embraces the entire Pacific Coast of Canada. Bigger by 50,000 square miles than Oregon, Washington, and California combined, it has king-size scenery to match-- 7,000 miles of fiords in the west, glaciers and snow-capped peaks in the east, and forest-edged valleys in between.
Read ArticleTHE MAN NEXT DOOR
"I thought you told me once," grumbled Junior as, batching it for an evening, he and I finally donned aprons and tackled the dinner dishes, "that a boy who was tied to his mother's apron strings never got into hot water.,"
Read ArticleHead start on mealtime with a freezer
Yes, meal-fixing goes fast when you just open the freezer door, take your choice, of home-grown peas or corn, chicken or pork chops, the family's favorite cake or pie.
Read ArticleCONTEST FOR COOKS
THERE'S $70 waiting for the good cooks who send us the prizewinning recipes for cranberries, and turkey and chicken leftovers. We'll pay the first-prize winner $10. The 20 other winners will receive $3 each. Eight of the winning recipes will be pictured in Better Homes & Gardens Prize Tested Recipe pages next January.
Read ArticleLinen closet
"I don't have enough room in my linen closet!" is a familiar cry in every household. With modern homes and apartments having reduced space due to cost and design, the modern homemaker finds that miscellaneous household articles are stuffed into the already-overloaded linen closet.
Read ArticleHelp your children to like people
The average American parent is eager to give his offspring the so-called advantages. We expose them to dancing lessons and music lessons. We scurry them to the best skin doctors when the bumps of adolescence appear. We cheerfully sacrifice to buy their vitamins and bicycles and clothes "like the other kids wear."
Read ArticleThat living-room traffic jam
Their 22x12-foot living room had to do too many jobs. It had to serve not only as a living, dining, and television room, but also as a hallway serving the entire house.
Read ArticleEtiquette for you and the bride
Everyone loves a bride. She's the center of all wedding preparations. But if you're a friend, mother, father, relative, or relative-to-be, you've an important part to play in the success of the wedding. The better you know how to proceed, the easier it will be on the bride, and the more blithely you'll glide through the whole affair.
Read ArticleGet the most from your child's doctor
"No, no, no, no," the 18-months-old baby screams as he struggles on the doctor's examination table. He twists, turns, and kicks out violently to shake loose from restraining hands, all the time crying lustily. He puts out his hands entreatingly and shouts, "Mommy, Mommy."
Read ArticleGrow man-size lilies from seed
Ever wish you had great, white, gorgeous trumpet lilies in your garden? Then try dependable Formosa lilies-- Wilson's variety of Lilium formosanum. Characteristically tall and late-flowering, they achieve triumphant blooming size. You have to look up to them!
Read ArticleEyecatching aprons
Take your pick-- or make all five! Every one can be made from a half circle of fabric. Each is so easy to cut out that you won't need a pattern.
Read ArticleGet more bloom from your tuberous begonias
Want more-- and better-- tuberous begonia blooms? Then plant where they get plenty of light.
Read ArticleRelax with the July issue
Settle yourself in your favorite chair in front of the fan. Or pick a nice, shady spot in the yard to sit down with the July issue of Better Homes & Gardens as soon as it arrives. We've planned lots of features to help you forget the heat and really enjoy the summer.
Read ArticleTry concrete garden paving
Concrete is durable, easy to keep clean, and attractive. You can color it. And you can combine concrete, as these pictures show, with many other paving materials. So consider concrete when you're deciding what paving to use for the new terrace, walk, drive, or play yard you are planning to have.
Read ArticleThe diary of a Plain dirt gardener.
June 1 "Do you know what time it is?" asked Maggie, as she came down the path.
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Adjust mower to clip bluegrass lawn at 1½ inches. Cut faded bloom heads from your lilac, azalea, and rhododendron shrubs, and remove any old lilac stems that have produced small, inferior blooms this season.
Read ArticleEnjoy a garden free of insects
Modern chemical "warfare" and your own common sense. Together, they make it possible for you to defeat two mighty irritating pests: mosquitoes and chiggers.
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