April 1954

How do you do at introducing?

A. "Mrs. Jones, may I introduce Mr. Brown?" B. "Mr. Brown, may I introduce Mrs. Jones?" Answer: "A" is right.

Highway hazards and how to avoid them

Let's be frank. You're reading this article because you are interested in protecting your life while driving. Of course, you're interested in saving other people's lives, too. But first and foremost, it's your own tender neck you're looking out for. In driving, however, you can't be downright selfish. When you look out for yourself, you've got to look out for others, too. It stands to reason you can't get into a great deal of trouble alone.

Marriage isn't a reform school

The missionary lurks in most of us-- the potential reformer. And in no relationship in life are we more prone to spit on our hands and yield to the itch, "I'll make him over," than in marriage. For here, as nowhere else, is the poor benighted heathen (male or female) so completely captive. He may howl and beat his bosom; he may even, in sheer desperation, reform as we intend. But short of getting a lawyer, he literally can't escape!

Fabric dresses up a bedroom

Dust ruffle: For top, cut unbleached muslin to fit springs' top, plus ⅝-inch seam allowance at foot and sides. For ruffle, seam together printed fabric strips, which are as wide as distance from floor to springs' top plus ⅝-inch seam and 1-inch hem allowance, until piece measures twice the distance around bed's foot and sides. For bed with a footboard, make three sections, one for foot and one for each side.

Small space--big look

How to handle a hall

Planning your estate doesn't end with a will

What happens when one spouse is left to manage a family's business affairs? One thing is certain-- they (the affairs) won't be left unchanged, and delayed or unwise action can be costly.

The hospital that atom-bombs cancer

On the University of Chicago's campus, Stagg Field-- named after Alonzo A. Stagg, "grand old man of football"-- has long been closed to fans. The gate is now barricaded with boards and barbed wire. Near the entrance is a plaque which reads: On December 2, 1942 man achieved here the first self-sustaining chain reaction and thereby initiated the controlled release of atomic energy.

Good grouping for your pictures

Have you heard the Latest Garden News?

An extremely rare event in plant breeding has been reported at the John Innes Institute for Plant Research, in England. Workers there have crossed an apple and a pear.

Space-makers for small rooms

WANT TO MAKE your rooms look larger and actually "live larger"? You can. Here are live space-making ideas which apply anywhere. We've tested them in a budget-size builder's house on the next six pages. Color is your biggest aid. A space-making color scheme uses closely related colors. It avoids big, eyecatching designs which look busy and crowded, or strong color contrasts which chop up wall and floor areas. If you can't re-do a room, you can use this trick when choosing new additions Lighting is a space-maker when it makes dark corners usable, turns the seldom-used chairs into comfortable reading spots, draws attention to tall draperies and ceiling.

The Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains

John Daly's day

At the height of the after-theater rush in mid-Manhattan, a rangy 6-footer was futilely waving and whistling for a taxi. "I'm trying to catch the 11:25 to Rye," he explained as the traffic cop glanced over crossly. In the grossest violation of regulations, the cop promptly made a cab U-turn in the busy street. "Get along home, Mr. Daly," he said. "You're working too hard."

They bloom on--and on--and on--and on

It's just as young as you are

If ever a house was young in spirit, this is that house. If you feel at home with today's way of living, you'll like the open friendliness here... the planning to meet everyday problems ...the simplicity that puts your building dollars where they count (not in meaningless decorations or contrivances) and gives true beauty in the bargain.

No sense breaking your back

It steals the mountains' thunder!

If you were to buy your homesite at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, you'd never be the same from then on.

How to be Individual on a tract lot

In the spring, a fancy table

How to cut your dishwashing time

Sizzling hot from the grill

Protect that record investment

Our neighborhood "licks" its children

Any mother of a preschool child-- especially one aged 3 to 5-- is familiar with the plaintive howls of "What'll I do noooow, Mommie?"

Try a new arrangement to get more space

Ideas for your kitchen-- help yourself!

Do you make the most of aluminum foil?

Choose furniture to stretch space

Is your dog an outlaw?

Help your child be a good sport

"Why is our kid such a bum sport?" Ann and I felt pretty discouraged about our abilities as parents the Sunday night we asked ourselves that question.

How to build on top of a hill

You can build that porch yourself ...here's how!

We visited the land of "Trembling Earth"

We were on our way home after vacationing in Florida. Near Waycross, Georgia, one of our party mentioned that we were only a mile or so from the Okefenokee Swamp Park. We immediately decided to go there.

How big is a nail?

Safe driving

One of the biggest hazards of highway driving is that it may be impossible for you to stop if a car enters your lane at low speed from a side road.

Don't make light of measles

This barn was worth converting

Now and then you find a "natural"-- a barn with every reason why it could be turned into a handsome, practical home. And the family that makes the conversion will get a lot of living space for its remodeling money-- as did the William Ottens of Northbrook, Illinois.

It once was an attic

Furnishings that make space

Save time with a kitchen office

Built-ins can give vim that needed extra storage space

Try tubbed or boxed plants

Don't pass up the decorative advantages of plants in containers for color highlights on your terrace. With your foliage and blooming plants tubbed, potted, or boxed, you can rearrange them just as you move the furniture in your living room.

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

Jot down variety names of early spring-flowering bulbs you'd like to order later for fall planting. Plant dormant roses-- and trees and shrubs-- as soon as soil can be worked.

Perennials how to grow and use them

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

April 1 When I first awakened early this a.m. and looked out, it was dark and dreary and raining.

Here's a way out

How to start Cannas

How to start seeds in your garden

Garden clinic

Aprons to moke from a yard of fabric

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THE MAN NEXT DOOR

Our 10-year-old Judy decided not to pull her favorite April-fool trick on me this year. Last year she did it, but it almost fell flat. She put some salt, instead of sugar, into my coffee, and I absent-mindedly thought for a moment that her mom had overslept and I'd made it.