September 1955

Here's your Decorating Preview

Matching fabrics or vinyl coatings for ready-pasted wallpapers add to their usefulness and beauty. Modern, Provincial, floral, or novelty-patterned fabrics match one line of papers for any room in the house. The vinyl-coated papers are stain-resistant-- most soil can be washed off with soap and water.

What do yon need to screen?

Latest Garden News

Three new grasses will be available next year, all developed at Pennsylvania State College. One of most interest to homeowners is a creeping red fescue called Pennlawn.

New victories predicted for medicine!

Doctors from all parts of the nation met in Atlantic City early this summer at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association. Family doctors and specialists shared their knowledge, brought each other up-to-date on latest advances in medicine and surgery, and went home to get a running start on brilliant advances in medical science forecast for the next half century.

Schools without grades!

If present statistics hold true in the future, almost half the children now in grade schools will never finish high school.

Bring your wiring up to date

Everyone delights in new electrical appliances that take the drudgery out of household chores-- that light, heat, and cool our homes. But are you getting the best-possible service from them?

The IDEA HOME of the year

What is the Idea Home of the Year? Better Homes & Gardens believes this house accepts the problems that beset every family in building-- from the first planning stage through years, perhaps, of making the home complete.

Lazy ways to a better garden

Look what you can do with one pattern!

Chicken favorites

Your dining room can work overtime

Here's a dining room that's now doing the additional duties of a television room and sitting room. Not too long ago, this was just a pretty dining room that was used only a few hours a week. With the new duties assigned to it, the entire house seems to be larger, with many of the living pressures taken off the other rooms. A large part of the success of this room in the Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Morris home, South Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, is a clever furniture arrangement.

Save time with these helpers

Has "foxhole religion" really lasted?

IN A GRIM and heartsick long ago, death chattered out of coconut trees, and white Pacific sands turned a dull blood red, island by island. It is 10 years since V-J Day.

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 Better Homes & Gardens Home Planning Center, where you can get personal counsel on your home-planning problems.

Retaining walls you can build

Keep your retaining walls low-- under 4 feet-- unless you're an engineer trained to figure stresses and strains. If the slopes are higher, make two or more walls stepped back up the slope to do the job of holding.

How to teach your trees tricks

Informal rooms can use these ideas

RUST--how you can stop it

The scientists have discovered new ways to fight rust which are now well beyond the laboratory stage, ready for practical application.

Thumb-sucking-how serious is it?

Few things upset parents as much as discovering their baby sucking his thumb. This usually occurs when the baby is 2 to 3 months old, but may begin at any time during the first year.

Safe driving

ABRASIVES

Try a get-together grouping

Keys to this successful room

Children and flowers do mix

Furniture you can build

We visited Oklahoma's Woolaroc Museum

Palette-shaped road signs lured us for 50 miles to leave U. S. 75 at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and drive 14 miles southwest on State 23 to Woolaroc-- Frank Phillips' wildlife sanctuary and museum-- locally called the "five-million-dollar classroom of Southwest history."

New faces for old fireplaces

A yard tailored for timesaving

Get set to solder

When your pet is a patient

Our cocker spaniel sheds hair all year not just in spring and fall. Her coat has a dandruff in it. We feed her canned dog food and table scraps, and she seems healthy.-- Mr. G. C., Ohio.

Loneliness for stay-at-homes

Going back to school is anticipated with considerable eagerness by even half-hearted students. Those first days of school do hold a certain excitement-- old friends, new experiences, and swapping tales of summer.

Grass--how to feed, seed, water, aerate, mow

Now's the time to...

Start new lawns as soon as the soil can be prepared, and reseed old lawns wherever needed. Keep the soil dark with moisture until new grass appears.

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

Sept. 1 Had no more than sat down at the breakfast table this morning when Maggie had me up peering out the kitchen window.

Leakproof roofs and gutters

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

Nine-year-old Bobby, son of the very-wealthy Thompsons, made himself a shoeshine box, went to town last Saturday, and earned nearly $4. His mom had mild hysteria when she heard it. But we neighbors have joined his pop in being mighty proud and in giving Bobby our business.