April 1958

Art appreciation begins at home

Can Russia challenge our faith?

Recently, I stood on a crowded street in Leningrad with a young Russian engineering student. It was the 250th anniversary of the founding of the city, and a parade was in progress. While the red flags were borne past to the sound of marching bands, he said dramatically, "There goes my God!" Then he looked at me as if wondering whether he could possibly be wrong, whether there might be something greater, something more.

PREAM

Keeping up to date with Trade-in housing

House trading, which works much the same as trading-in your car, can simplify your change from one house to another. And now there's good news coming up that will make trade-ins easier, less costly. The new housing bill before Congress will benefit you and the trade-in realtor three ways. It will allow the realtor a larger F.H.A. loan on your old house, permitting him to take more houses in trade.

Simplicity is the latest word-in colors, lines, and upkeep

It lets you live the way you'd like

The plan's the thing in living the way you like. It should develop from your family's needs. Around a good basic plan, many attractive exterior designs can emerge.

New color for your bedroom and bath!

This handsome house suits them to a "T"

How to know what you're doing when you decorate

Little kitchens remodeled to do big things

More kitchen in the same space!

Two tiny rooms became one work-easy kitchen

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Happy Easter breads...

1. Anise Loaf is centered with a bright red Easter egg--the idea comes from Greece. Recipe calls for oil of anise and cinnamon to give delicate, aromatic flavor. Take a look at the beautifully browned crust dotted with sesame seed. That is just one promise of the good eating to come. Now cut the handsome loaf, a little on the diagonal-- the slices are tender and velvety. Delicious!

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Money for your recipes

Look what a squeeze bottle can do

What's going on in kitchen cabinets

Hit the summer-job market early

Practical facts abut your silver, china, and glass

Your silver, china, and glassware are sure to be among the most used items of all the furnishings in your home. And because they get such regular use, they often need or want replacing-- sometimes from necessity, more frequently from a desire for exciting change and new interest.

Do you know about Assigned risk plan insurance?

Motorists who get tagged as habitual traffic violators, or who chalk up a series of violations involving their automobiles, are poor insurance risks. As a result, each year thousands of Americans find suddenly that they've been dropped by their auto insurance companies.

Start early on youngsters' sunbaths

You're in that envelope

As long as you're writing the letter, why shouldn't you put your whole self into it? Start when you first select your envelope and stationery. Let it carry through as you write your latest news. Maybe some of the following suggestions will get you off to a good start.

KARPEN FURNITURE

. . . A town where the teacher is the apple of all eyes!

There was a festive air about the Hotel Elkhart in Elkhart, Indiana, one week before the city's public schools were to open. Fifty-two of the town's leading citizens were gathered in a banquet room to welcome 52 new teachers. When everyone was seated, the chairman signaled the community leaders and each host took out of his pocket a shiny, red apple which he handed to his guest to a happy chorus of "An apple for the teacher."

Happy Easter breads

Personal help in planning, decorating and furnishing YOUR home

Look for this Better Homes & Gardens "Home Planning Center" seal when you're looking for ideas to help make your home more comfortable and attractive. It identifies leading stores who feature personal counsel on home planning, decorating, and furnishings problems.

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Bathroom fixtures need a shine?

What you can do about rust

Wiring ideas to make living more comfortable

How to buy a house--and be sure it's yours!

So you're going to buy a house. You've shopped all the possibilities, made your decision. You've cleared the last hurdle to a good, sound mortgage. You're ready to move in. Or are you...? "What about the title?" your banker asks. "You know it'll have to be cleared before we can close the loan."

Growing, growing, grown!

How to have four own waterworks

Poison on food? Read this

Spring fever at the Joneses'

Have you heard? Latest Garden News

"Sow thick, thin quick" is an old gardening rule we don't need any more. It has been used by generations of gardeners who wanted a uniform stand of plants.

Aggressiveness in children

"I hate you, Mama!" Sarah cried. Her round, 3-year-old face was pink with anger, and there was a defiant gleam in her eye as she drew back her foot-- shod in a sturdy, hardsoled shoe-- and gave her mother a sharp and quite unexpected kick on the ankle.

Jackposts can boost a tired house

NALPLEX

How to plant an evergreen

How to make concrete edging-mowing strips

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APRIL GARDEN REMINDERS

Water: Where the spring rains are sparse, be generous with water around bases of shrubs and trees.

PENNSYLVANIA

How to build a CONCRETE TERRACE

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

April 1 No foolin' about it, rain began to drizzle down before I could reach the office and it kept up all day long.

AMERICAN CHEMICAL PAINT COMPANY

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Octanes and additives

Refining techniques and the resulting gasolines have been revolutionized in the past 25 years, and to many people the new product rightly means power. The most drastic improvement-- high-octane number-- certainly is a "must" to anyone owning a 1958 car with a 10-to-one compression ratio engine. Without high-octane gasoline, such an engine would have a somewhat lower efficiency.

What's in a zone?

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

Miss Hendricks, our Rosemary's favorite teacher, found a way to answer the chronic complainer at the P.T.A. meetings. Told him if he carried some responsibility on his shoulder he wouldn't have so much room for chips.