August 1957

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Short of water for irrigating your garden? Then take a tip from Dr. C. H. Nissley of the New Jersey Experiment Station, who advises commercial gardeners. He recommends that if only half enough water is available, use it on half the area.

For sale: extra vacation days

Is the usual two weeks' vacation too short for doing all the things your family enjoys most? Would you like twice as many hours to spend swimming, sight-seeing, deep-sea fishing or lying in the sun? Have you longed to vacation at distant points that seemed out of reach because of the time required to get there and back? There's a brand new miracle in family transportation that makes all this possible. Go by air!

AUGUST GARDEN REMINDERS

Lawns: Deep-soak once a week rather than giving them more frequent light sprinklings. Water should penetrate down to roots-- at least 4 or 5 inches Tall annuals: Stake them. Many have reached their peak of growth, may need your help to keep from toppling over from their own weight, or in wind or heavy rain.

Benjamin Moore paints

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

Aug. 1 "What are those yellow streaks around the lawn?" asked Maggie as she looked out the kitchen window about breakfast time.

How one family wired a new house

Don and Lucy Combs, who live near Los Angeles, had two main objectives when they planned the wiring in the house they were building.

Kaleidoscope view of the new colors!

If "serene" best describes the feeling you can achieve with a blue and violet color scheme, the living room in Mr. Wormley's home surely fits the description.

Seattle says, "Come aboard!"

Any sunny Sunday in Seattle, there's a traffic jam. As elsewhere, families fume and fuss while engines heat up and steering wheels are spun hopelessly. But this differs from the bottlenecks in Duluth or Denver or Darien in one important respect: these embroiled vehicles are pleasure boats, not automobiles, Their jockeying for position in the locks, which filter water traffic between Puget Sound and Lakes Union and Washington, is only a symptom of a fever which affects the whole character of the city, determining not only what the half-million residents do with their weekends, but the places they live, even the wording of their daily conversation.

Here's a house that lives well within itself

The Dean Wessels had to have a house that would live within itself. They were building on an awkward pie slice of property, hemmed in by other houses and a busy street.

How to style flowers to your home

AMERICA'S MORAL CRISIS DON'T LET THEM SCOFF AT

One of the gross libels of our time is that sex is somehow better when it is illicit. We have been fed the notion that the relationship is more exciting, more thrilling when it takes the form of a conquest, a mad pursuit, a forbidden indulgence, an "affair." As for marriage, according to the propaganda, this is a dull business.

A traditional approach to modern planning

Large picture at left eloquently expresses the aims and accomplishments of this house. First note the refreshing openness of the over-all scene. Think how much it would lose if the window wall overlooking the back yard were blank; if the fine-lined iron railing were walled- in, or if posts defining stair well to lower level were a solid wall.

SKYLIGHTS

Skylights do one thing and one thing only: they pour daylight into shut-in rooms, into dark pockets of space that have little or no outside exposure. But they make all sorts of other things possible.

Summer gardens pay four ways

Have a barbecue any time in an . . . Indoor-outdoor kitchen

"Icebreakers" for a cool summer

Introducing baby to "big" water

Part of your pleasure at the beach, lake, or swimming pool is showing Baby how much fun it is to kick and bounce in lots of water.

Personal help in planning, decorating, and furnishing YOUR home

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How to STOP CAR SQUEAKS

How to start lawns from seed

Safe driving

Recognize this old rule: Danger ahead of you means danger behind! Suppose you are driving south on an ordinary two-lane road.

Simple, sure way to housebreak a puppy

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THE MAN NEXT DOOR

"We're all specialists these days," says Doctor Shelby. "But a mother's still the only one who can kiss a kid on the forehead and cure a beesting on his instep."