December 1956

Will your car start when the temperature tumbles?

Do you want a guarantee that your car will burst into life every time you press the starter button this winter?

Latest Garden News

Ground corncobs make a good winter mulch for roses, says Dr. Griffith Buck of Iowa State College. But he qualifies this with one provision: the cobs must be kept dry. When they get wet they lose most of their insulating value.

DECEMBER GARDEN REMINDERS

Fruit: Pick late apples before frost and store in a cool place. ... Mulch strawberries, raspberries, currants, and gooseberries. See that mulch is secure against strong winds.

SANTA CLAUS--is he good or bad for our children?

Every December, a whole new crop of young mamas begins to worry about an elderly gentleman who is the very opposite of worry. These mamas-- and the daddies, too-- feel honor bound to be "modern." Their children mustn't have horse-and-buggy concepts in a turbojet age.

How to wire your holiday displays

Come Christmastime and all of us are electricians of sorts. We dangle lights over a tree, and if we're truly ambitious, may be brighten up the neighborhood with a decoration for the porch, front yard, or roof.

Grown-up room for a little girl

Winter care of evergreens

You can bring your evergreens through the winter undamaged, if you anticipate the extremes of weather and prepare for them in advance.

Christmas around the world

If there is ever a time I wish I were two people, it is at Christmas. I want to be at home where we keep the day according to our traditions and I want to be traveling to see how Christmas is kept around the world.

Decorate with Nature's gifts

You don't have to look very far to find lovely Christmas decorations for your home. And they won't cost much more than the price of your time and efforts.

Make these dazzlers from foil plates

They brought a new way of living to town

Homes in Granite City, Illinois, hew to a firm, pleasantly Traditional line. So when Randall Robertson, a young attorney, and wife Pauline decided to settle there, they hesitated to build a "different" house.

Now... good art is at your fingertips

Why not join the thousands of people just like you and your neighbors who are discovering the pleasure of choosing and owning good art? These suggestions about where and how to select paintings and sculptures will show you how simple it is today for anyone to do.

Gifts with a future

For a holiday glow Light a sparkling new lamp!

Window-shop here for Christmas gifts

Christmas safety--it begins with the tree

Stocking-filler surprises

Desks designed for typing at home

Accessories make the difference

Eight ways to pattern your rooms

Ideas to help you decorate your home

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.

Five children share this pair of bedrooms

Teach your child nail care

How to choose and use . . . SCREWDRIVERS

You and your RECREATION

Color candles for Christmas

Garden furniture--repair and maintenance

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

Dec. 1 At breakfast, I preached a little sermon on thrift. "We need to save money," says I. "By and by we will be old and then we'll need it." I tried to be real firm.

How to get your Five Star plans

What men see in gardening

Harold Knowlton has this to say: "Men gardeners of today conform to no specified size, shape, disposition, or occupation. The group includes many of the most rugged dynamos to be found anywhere. None are 'sitters.'

Fallacies and facts about dogs

Gift Shopping by Mail

Cleaning helpers to spruce up your home

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

I always feel superior when I think of my neighbors' faults; mine are so much bigger.